Media commentators regularly note a tendency in news media and wider culture to understand events through the prism of individual agents, as opposed to more complex structural or institutional accounts.

However, the Russian culture has two distinct terms: Средняя Азия ( Srednjaja Azija or " Middle Asia ", the narrower definition, which includes only those traditionally non-Slavic, Central Asian lands that were incorporated within those borders of historical Russia ) and Центральная Азия ( Central ' naja Azija or " Central Asia ", the wider definition, which includes Central Asian lands that have never been part of historical Russia ).

If we are to explain language's evolution, according to this view, we must tackle it as part of a wider one — the evolutionary emergence of symbolic culture as such.

In recent days, the Village has maintained its role as a center for movements that have challenged the wider American culture, for example, its role in the gay liberation movement.

This new identity made it possible for Scottish culture to become integrated into a wider European and North American context, not to mention tourist sites, but it also locked in a sense of " otherness " which Scotland began to shed only in the late 20th century.

Since the 19th century it has become associated with the wider culture of Scotland in general, or with Celtic ( and more specifically Gaelic ) heritage even more broadly.

From then on, the Bulgarian model became an integral part of wider Slavic culture as a whole.

While much knowledge was lost, Aboriginal art, music and culture, often scorned by Europeans during the initial phases of contact, survived and in time came to be celebrated by the wider Australian community.

The Karanovo culture developed simultaneously with the one in Varna, and its earth layers serve as a stratigraphical gauge for the prehistory of the wider Balkans region.

However self-sufficiency is not always a goal or desired outcome, specifically since self-sufficiency can conflict with goals to be a change agent for the wider culture and infrastructure.

Despite the rarity of Prader-Willi syndrome, it has become widely-known in wider society and often depicted in popular culture, partly due to the fascination surrounding the insatiable appetite and obesity associated with the syndrome.

As one of the Commonwealth Foundation ’ s culture programmes, Commonwealth Writers works in partnership with international literary organisations, the wider cultural industries and civil society to help writers develop their craft.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, its comprehensive reviews ( literally thousands in each issue ) made it the most important publication in its field, heralding the wider spread of what would eventually be called fanzine or zine culture.

It has been described as a " turn to a jauntier and more decorative visual language " that was " part of a wider move towards the appreciation of vernacular arts and the peculiarities of English culture ".

Inspired by a love of her Yemenite Jewish culture, the appeal of her musical art quickly spread to a wider Middle Eastern audience, somehow bridging the divide between Israel and the Arab countries.

Anarcho-punks have criticized the perceived flaws of the punk movement and the wider youth culture in general.

The galleries also link design to wider trends in British culture.

The region of the Pazyryk kurgans is considered the type site of the wider Pazyryk culture.

The Lucayans lived in smaller political units ( simple chiefdoms, compared to the more elaborate political structures in Hispaniola ), and their language and culture showed differences, but they remained Tainos, although a " hinterland " of the wider Taino world.

Jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes during the period, and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards.

As with most other settler societies, it can be said descriptively that Pākehā contemporary culture is an amalgam of cultural practices, tensions, and accommodations: British / European with some Māori and Polynesian influences and more recently wider cultural inputs, particularly from Chinese and other Far Eastern cultures.

Leaders of the time urged assimilation and integration into the wider American culture, and Jews quickly became part of American life.

The Chinese government argues for a " wider " definition of human rights, to include economic and social as well as political rights, all in relation to " national culture " and the level of development of the country.

Even as emancipation eased integration into wider society and assimilation prospered, the haskalah also resulted in the creation of secular Jewish culture, with an emphasis on Jewish history and Jewish identity, rather than religion.

In contrast, court music of the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, although having unique elements remained much more integrated into wider European culture.

The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

The introduction of the printing press in Europe during the fifteenth century and the diffusion of printed matter contributed to higher literacy rates and wider access to the once-rarefied knowledge of academia.

The flag has been intended to represent Europe in its wider sense.

Around 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially, since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax.

In a wider sense, the Mongol people includes all people who speak a Mongolic language, such as the Kalmyks of eastern Europe.

He said that it was " a great opportunity to see how a small nation can run its own affairs while being an equal and active part of a wider Europe.

Neopagan movements emerged in Europe during the 19th and early 20th centuries, influenced by the wider occult movement ; these included Thelema, Wicca and Adonism.

The new nomenclature suggests a broader geographical coverage and a growing attention to the relationships between Europe and the wider world.

Here, as in the other great mountain ranges of central Europe, there is great evidence of a much wider extension of the glaciers during the Ice Ages.

In the 1990s, a wider movement comes from eastern Europe: young European artists settle in East-Berlin's abandoned buildings after the fall of the Wall.

For 36 years, NATO and the Warsaw Treaty never directly waged war against each other in Europe ; the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies implemented strategic policies aimed at the containment of each other in Europe, while working and fighting for influence within the wider Cold War on the international stage.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

:"... 27 January 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where a combined total of up to 1. 5 million Jews, Roma, Poles, Russians and prisoners of various other nationalities, and homosexuals, were murdered, is not only a major occasion for European citizens to remember and condemn the enormous horror and tragedy of the Holocaust, but also for addressing the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism, and especially anti-Semitic incidents, in Europe, and for learning anew the wider lessons about the dangers of victimising people on the basis of race, ethnic origin, religion, social classification, politics or sexual orientation ...."

From this base, they acquired political power initially in Florence and later in wider Italy and Europe.

The roots of the modern environmental movement can be traced to attempts in 19th-century Europe and North America to expose the costs of environmental negligence, notably disease, as well as widespread air and water pollution, but only after the Second World War did a wider awareness begin to emerge.

Malabo is part of a wider bay that represents most of the northern coast of Bioko ; it stretches from Europe Point in the west ( home to the airport ), to barren lands in the east.

After 1742 the war was subsumed by the wider War of the Austrian Succession involving most of the powers of Europe.

This enabled him not only to perform his music to a wider audience, but also to increase his influence across Europe – for example, his orchestration was studied by many Russian composers.

Beginning in the early 17th century, Taiwanese aborigines faced broad cultural change as the island became incorporated into the wider global economy by a succession of competing colonial regimes from Europe and Asia (; ).

Established in 1985, the organisation now brings together over 270 regions from 33 countries, along with 16 interregional associations, across wider Europe.

Today, in the United States and Southern Europe ( e. g., Italy and France ) the candle is approximately 2 inches in diameter and 36 to 48 inches tall ; in Northern Europe the candle tends to be shorter in height ( 19 to 24 inches ) and wider in diameter ( 3 to 5 inches ).

' We just thought ‘ Well we ’ ll get some of our friends, and we ’ ll do collaborations and see what happens .’" The album later received a wider release on CD and digitally on June 26 in the US and July 30 in Europe.