cultural gap

collocation in English

meaningsofculturalandgap

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cultural
adjective
uk
/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us
/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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gap
noun
uk
/ɡæp/us
/ɡæp/
an empty space or opening in the middle of something or between ...
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(Definition ofculturalandgapfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcultural gap

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The discourse on women's education underlines theculturalgapbetween the college-educated husbands and their often illiterate wives.
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In so doing, they suggested aculturalgapbetween themselves and the teenagers in terms of pro-social and anti-social stances.
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More than sixty years and a wideculturalgapseparate the opera from its literary sources, but in every version the problem of the prima donna endured.
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Lear argues that failure was more than just the result of aculturalgapbetween rural revolutionaries and urban workers, and demonstrates that it came about for practical reasons.
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There is still aculturalgapin this country between manufacturing industry and the generality of the professions.
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In truth, it is caused by aculturalgap, which is unlikely to be bridged properly in the short term.
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But we have to press on, and the most important factor is to bridge thisculturalgap.
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Theculturalgapbetween the two churches remained significant.
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However, they form theculturalgapbetween people.
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I would add a fourth element which seems to me important: there is no greatculturalgapbetween us and them.
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There is a political andculturalgapand it is clear that we need in our pattern of newspapers a left of centre non-tabloid.
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There is a bigculturalgapto be bridged in our society and so far, unfortunately, it has not been done.
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There is a generation andculturalgapbetween the police and the younger generation, even without the exacerbating effect of unemployment.
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Our two final recommendations about the role of the forensic scientist as a witness attempt to close thatculturalgapbetween law and science.
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There was a wide social andculturalgapbetween the legislators and senior ministry officials.
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Instead, exegetical and interpretative principles are utilized as part of the process of closing thatculturalgap.
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When considering the educational content of training we must continue to address ourselves to the problem of theculturalgapwhich has long been established between education and industry.
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Thisculturalgapbetween generations can be partly explained by the tradition of tradition, referencing and mocking parts of the tradition itself to create humour.
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It explains that what causes the distress is bureaucratic ineptitude and aculturalgapbetween a traditional community and a modern, technologically-advanced, highly-competitive nation.
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He gets to know his students despite theculturalgapevident from the very first day of class and despite his difficulty adapting to the school system's constraints.
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Theculturalgapbetween immigrant parents and their children may widen due to acculturation because younger generations find it easier to adapt to the new culture.
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