Sentence examples for cultural codes from inspiring English sources

In encounters with Swedish society, where the participants were not familiar enough with Swedish expressions and cultural codes to the same degree as with their own culture, they interpreted the situation with reference to their understandings of their own culture.

Transferring and translating cultural codes.

But she found that it was held back by its own stultifying cultural codes.

There are similar cultural codes at work, as well as vastly different ones.

This is especially relevant given his brief, which requires a sensitivity to cultural codes.

Austerity has its own cultural codes: the "Generation Game" was loved precisely because it was cheap.

A. I'm the same person, but respectful of the cultural codes.

They are constructed complexes of habits, beliefs, and procedures embedded in elaborate cultural codes of communication.

In a country like Malaysia in the 1980s — multicultural, rapidly urbanizing, rapidly creating a wealth-based class system — you learn to switch linguistic and cultural codes.

Pelecanos's style is one of total-shock immersion in the sights, sounds and cultural codes of the dangerous world he roams.

Though I mastered the French language and most of the cultural codes, people often reminded me that I was not exactly "French".