While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

Throughout her marriage and during her regency, when she was not conducting affairs of state, Isabella preferred to spend her free time engaged in cultural pursuits.

According to the Masurian Institute the Masurian members of resistance against Nazi Germany who survived the war, became active in 1945 in the region, working in Olsztyn in cooperation with new state authorities in administration, education and cultural affairs

Furthermore, " the state shall establish diplomatic as well as political, economic and cultural relations with all friendly countries, on principles of complete equality, independence, mutual respect, noninterference in each other ’ s affairs, and mutual benefit ".

Huntington believed that while the age of ideology had ended, the world had reverted only to a normal state of affairs characterized by cultural conflict.

Huntington believed that while the age of ideology had ended, the world had only reverted to a normal state of affairs characterized by cultural conflict.

The idea for a multicultural complex sprouted from André Malraux, the first minister of cultural affairs, was the western prophet of art and culture as centralized political power.

Although Steward and Barnett seemed to be suggesting that anthropology as such should restrict itself to purely academic affairs, people within and without the academy have continued to debate the ways non-anthropologists have used this principle in public policy concerning ethnic minorities or in international relations ( see this interview or this article on cultural relativism and human rights for examples of this debate ).

Licio Gelli was also named minister plenipotentiary for cultural affairs in the Argentine embassy in Italy, thus providing him with diplomatic immunity.

When her husband was away on Crusade or other business she dominated the household and cultural affairs ; sometimes this was the case even when the husband was at home.

She is also cultural affairs spokesperson for the Alliance ' 90 / The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag and chairperson of the German-Turkish Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Anthropologist Donald Brown's list of " human cultural universals " ( i. e., features shared by all current human societies ) includes men being the " dominant element " in public political affairs ( Brown 1991, p. 137 ), which he asserts is the contemporary opinion of mainstream anthropology.

The Kentishtowner ( founded in 2010 ) is an online magazine dedicated to cultural affairs which covers central north London including Camden Town.

Like other cultural areas in France, sport is overseen by a government ministry, the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports ( France ) which is in charge of national and public sport associations, youth affairs, public sports centers and national stadia ( like the Stade de France ).

* Bidisha, writer and commentator on cultural and social affairs

Focusing on " foreign affairs, politics, and the economy well as cultural trends ," it is primarily aimed at a target audience of " thought leaders.

The Atlantic features articles in the fields of political science, foreign affairs, the economy, technology, and the arts, as well as a book review and cultural trends section.

Innovation Norway, a state-owned promotion company which is also in charge of tourism affairs, makes annual reports on the country's most visited tourist attractions, both cultural and natural.

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In post-colonial studies, the term neo-colonialism describes the domination-praxis ( social, economic, cultural ) of countries from the developed world in the respective internal affairs of the countries of the developing world ; that, despite the decolonisation occurred in the aftermath of the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), the ( former ) colonial powers continue to apply existing and past international economic arrangements with their former colony countries, and so maintain colonial control.

RÚV – which by the terms of its charter is obliged to " promote the Icelandic language, Icelandic history, and Iceland's cultural heritage " and " honour basic democratic rules, human rights, and the freedom of speech and opinion " – carries a substantial amount of arts, media, and current affairs programming, in addition to which it also supplies general entertainment in the form of feature films and such internationally popular television drama series as Lost and Desperate Housewives.

It services as the main news, current affairs and factual journalism channel of Yle with also a number of documentaries, drama, cultural and educational programmes being shown.

It has become the center for Chinese commercial and cultural activity in the southeastern region of the San Gabriel Valley.

The Vietnam War led to the rise of a revisionist school in the United States, which led many American historians such as Gabriel Kolko and William Appleman Williams to reject traditional diplomatic history in favor of a Primat der Innenpolitik approach that saw a widespread examination of the influence of American domestic politics together with various social, economic and cultural forces on foreign-policy making.

Gabriel James Byrne ( born 12 May 1950 ) is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator.

Nobel Prize winner in literature Gabriel García Márquez expressed his disdain over the elimination of the eñe by saying: " The ' Ñ ' is not an archaeological piece of junk, but just the opposite: a cultural leap of a Romance language that left the others behind in expressing with only one letter a sound that other languages continue to express with two.

As the oldest incorporated community in the valley, the City of Pasadena serves as a cultural center for the San Gabriel Valley.

) The 99 Ranch Market closed because it failed to develop into a major commercial and cultural hub for the pan-Chinese diaspora like those in Monterey Park and San Gabriel and because of property management issues ; several Asian stores still exist to cater to the significant local population, including Chinese restaurants and an East-West Bank.

Important critics and historians such as Gabriel Peluffo Linari, Fernando García Esteban and Atahualpa del Cioppo have recognised Seade's cultural importance.

The Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research Inc. ( GDI ) was formally incorporated as a non-profit corporation in 1980, to serve the educational and cultural needs of the Saskatchewan Métis and Non-Status Indian community.

The initiative was covered by journalist Gabriel Giurgiu in the cultural magazine Dilema Veche, which is also part of the Adevărul Holding.

In later years, on the dissolution of the Centre and formation of the Department of Cultural Studies, Sadie Plant, noted cybertheorist and feminist ( author of Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture ), taught there, as did Jorge Larrain, the well-known Chilean sociologist and cultural historian, author of Identity and Modernity in Latin America and John Gabriel, sociologist of race.

These Asian settlers worked the fields, harvested the grapes and the citrus fruits, and actually constructed a large part the infrastructure of San Gabriel Valley of today, which has evolved into a major hub, a main cultural center.

Rowland Heights remains the Chinese commercial / cultural center in East San Gabriel.

The historical Tongva Indian woman Toypurina, a Mission Indian living near the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, when 25 years old plotted against the Spaniards ' cultural genocide and invasion of her native homeland, and was a model for the book's character struggling with the California mission clash of cultures.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Educational policy in the United States has as an explicit goal the maximization of economic and cultural opportunity.

Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a former Rhodes Scholar and Mills College dean, has headed the Rockefeller Foundation and in that role expended large sums for international cultural exchange.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

Anthropologists study topics including Homo sapiens origin and evolution, the organization of human social and cultural relations, human physical traits, how humans behave, the variations among different groups of humans, how the evolutionary past of Homo sapiens has influenced its social organization and culture, and so forth.

At the same time, anthropologists urge, as part of their quest for scientific objectivity, cultural relativism, which has an influence on all the sub-fields of anthropology.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

Historically, the main dispute between the national organizations has generally centered on the interpretation of " Nordic heritage " as either something cultural, or as something genetic or racial.

In the internal discourse within American Ásatrú, this cultural / racial divide has long been known as " universalist " vs. " folkish " Asatru.

The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

Many stories have developed since the founding long ago to become a part of America's folklore and cultural awareness, and non-native American folklore especially includes any narrative which has contributed to the shaping of American values and belief systems.

English cultural influence ( reinforced at the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th by British contacts with the Far East ) has also made the consumption of tea very common.

The care for cultural patrimony has a long history within traditions of fixing and mending objects, and in individual restorations of artworks.

In contrast to the largely alignment-oriented statistically led methods of Green archaeoastronomy, Brown archaeoastronomy has been identified as being closer to the history of astronomy or to cultural history, insofar as it draws on historical and ethnographic records to enrich its understanding of early astronomies and their relations to calendars and ritual.

The province has strong cultural and personal ties to the Canadian Prairies and Ontario as well as to the West Coast of the United States and to Alaska and the Yukon.

Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination.

Boudica has since remained an important cultural symbol in the United Kingdom.

In 1988, Jesse Jackson urged Americans to use the term African-American because the term has a historical cultural base.

Since the turn of the millennium, Copenhagen has seen a strong urban and cultural development.

Pop culture has depicted and parodied the efforts of both nations to solidify their cultural uniqueness — primarily by Canada, as its population and economy are roughly one tenth that of the United States — to deter international perception that Americans and Canadians are virtually identical.