non-western cultures
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culture
noun
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ/
the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a ...
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(Definition ofculturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It would be interesting to investigate how children are conceptualised in non-western cultures.
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Sometimes it is said that appeals to human rights involve imposing western values on non-western cultures.
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Popular and rock music, indigenous music of the countries of these islands, and music from a variety of western and non-western cultures can all expect to receive attention in schools.
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However, non-western cultures possess the idiom of magic or spiritual figures and would therefore turn to magical practices or an expert in that idiom.
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In the non-western cultures there is the ability to cross between the realms of male and female.
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He argues that multiculturalism is concerned about transforming power to non-western cultures and allowing these cultures to speak for themselves.
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This interest brought him in contact with ways of thinking in traditional non-western cultures which he began to study in the 1980s.
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These results indicate an inability to assume that transactional and transformational leadership will succeed in non-western cultures.
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The study of music of non-western cultures, and the cultural study of music, is called ethnomusicology.
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Music of other cultures, both folk and classical, is often transmitted orally, though some non-western cultures developed their own forms of musical notation and sheet music as well.
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He argues that postmodernism is a continuation of colonialism and modernity and, as such, it further marginalises non-western cultures and tramples on their hopes and aspirations.
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