Sentence examples for cultural defect from inspiring English sources

You are seeking to underplay historically powerful social forces like racism and poverty, and reduce them to a substantive definitive character or cultural defect of black communities.

"I encourage dissent," he said, adding that a "cultural defect," in which employees had avoided criticizing the company, had existed before his arrival.

It's a cultural defect," said John Shahn, painter son of Ben Shahn.

I'll admit I'm kind of bummed to discover that the answer is in digital media, and not in some cultural defect, but I figured I should try their new gimmicky machines anyway.

"For most French people," he asserts, "Tunisians … had the same supposed racial and cultural defects of all North Africans, ranging from stupidity, criminality and a taste for violence".

Scholars once viewed China as having crippling social, cultural and political defects that underscored the superiority of the West.

Crummell would certainly not disagree that hindrances to blacks led to this cultural derailment and subsequent defect (as he saw it).

I think it's a defect of our cultural conditioning and patriarchy cuts across many, but not all, cultures.

I predict that our major cultural figures will continue to defect from what has clearly become a sinking Republican ship.

First, if altruistic punishment has played a key role in the evolution of collective action through cultural group selection, punishment of defecting group members should be more prevalent in between-group competitive settings.

Lay member Jane Patterson urged the Synod not to "bow to cultural pressure", warning more priests would defect to the Roman Catholic Church if the law were passed.