Sentence examples for cultural rites from inspiring English sources

So tailgaters can join Fielder in taking a stand against animal cruelty -- without discontinuing any of their brat-centered cultural rites.

"No person shall subject a child," says a recent bill approved by Kenya's Parliament, "to cultural rites, customs or traditional practices likely to affect negatively a child's life, health, social welfare, dignity, physical or psychological development".

Have the producers decided that the target audience at this point consists of rock-addled adolescents who, intent on experiencing "Rent" only as a cultural rite of passage, could care less about musical theater?

Even if you don't inhale, the exchange of cigarettes at the bus door has become a cultural rite akin to the lost art of snuff (although the Mongolians still keep it alive, I discovered, on a bus out of Ulan Bator once).

"For a generation of American men, reading Playboy was a cultural rite, an illicit thrill consumed by flashlight.

The practice is a revered cultural rite of passage in many societies; in Judaism, the practice dates back thousands of years.

Criticizing new moms is almost a cultural rite-of-passage in the United States, and most of the criticism is focused on the very same concern: the fear of fostering dependence in our children.

Recently, the practice of removing teeth has nearly ceased, and no practice has taken its place.[10] In this cultural context, the community has considered the role of MC as a medical practice versus a cultural rite.

Male circumcision is practiced among certain ethnic groups in Kenya, where it is traditionally tied to a cultural rite of passage and aids in defining ethnic identity boundaries.

This group of young men is an important cohort to study in the context of STIs/HIV transmission and unwanted pregnancies, as they have now undergone a cultural rite of passage that makes it socially acceptable to initiate sexual relations.

The fact of placing this in a context of cultural initiation rites, in which one endures a hardship during a certain period of time in order to get to a next phase of life with an enhanced state of being, could be interpreted as a coping strategy of the sub-Saharan communities.