Sentence examples for cultural judgment from inspiring English sources

The barbarity of stoning is a cultural judgment call (I consider lethal injection its moral equivalent).

That sounds like a rather subjective, cultural judgment — shouldn't the listener decide what's good, based purely on the genome's intrinsics-of-music guidance?

After all, they say, it is mostly women not men who carry out, and defend, the practice.The best way to bring about change, argue many campaigners, is to avoid cultural judgment and concentrate on health.

As much as I applaud Cheryl's firmer stance here, I tend to see the line between cosmetic measures that trigger personal empowerment, and those that arise from cultural judgment, as subjective and awfully blurry.

Her fault lies in extrapolating broad cultural judgments from context-specific abuses, implying that Islam and Arab culture writ large are have toxically combined to create a hopelessly backward region that "treats half of humanity like animals".

"I think that judgments on those countries concerning democracy, they're cultural judgments, because they have to do with religion," Nouvel says, referring to Abu Dhabi and Qatar.

"Huge," a drama about teenagers at a fat camp, which appeared this summer on ABC Family, displayed a similar sensitivity, a tone aimed at correcting for the reflexive cultural judgments levied against the overweight at a time when obesity has been cast as one of the greatest blights of our age.

These reactions not to mention victims' feelings of contamination, of having been defiled or desecrated are often exacerbated by cultural judgments of raped women as dirty and impure, or as "damaged goods".

Today, such cultural judgments are said to be wrongheaded and have brutal consequences: The ultimate genocide of the Fuegians at the hands of Europeans serves as only one precedent.

Together, these bring about necessary revisions in our moral standards and cultural judgments; while it is too slow for persons affected by discrimination and abuse, this process is unbelievably rapid by historical standards.

Ignore cultural judgments about what you should or should not feel after giving birth; your emotions and experiences are unique to you and you will need to work through them personally to heal appropriately.