Or even their views on immigration: in Tory-sponsored focus groups, researchers find minority voters frankly ferocious towards asylum seekers on benefits or eastern Europeans "stealing British jobs".Conservative strategists know that seemingly overlapping political beliefs can be trumped by deeper clashes of values.
The White House later approved the 4,000 troops, but the dispute pointed to a deeper clash of cultures over the use of force that continued after General McChrystal took command.
What has ensued is a fight that has drawn in a host of city officials, elicited a flood of e-mail from upset cat lovers and revealed a deeper clash between tradition and legality that has tested Rome's notions of its cultural heritage.
WASHINGTON — The United States and Pakistan are veering toward a deeper clash, with Pakistan's Parliament demanding a permanent halt to all drone strikes just as the most senior American official since the killing of Osama bin Laden is to arrive with a stern message that the country has only months to show it is committed to rooting out Al Qaeda and associated groups.
The personal feud reflects a deeper clash between police officers who resent a civilian having such a central role in their future, and Conservative politicians who think it is best for an outsider to push through necessary reform and scrutiny.
In a caldron of summer heat and deep uncertainty, clashes in the streets have erupted, most recently last Saturday, when pro-army toughs attacked a protest march in the neighborhood of Abassiya.
But there is a deep culture clash at the heart of this new phenomenon.
He frequently explained that there was indeed a deep ideological clash of civilizations between Britain and India.
But the tensions over how to address the news media — with American-style forthrightness or the ancient and more indirect ways of Italy — reflected a deeper culture clash between the Vatican as a global church, whose faithful often expect direct answers, and an Italian institution where secrecy is the rule but leaks often the norm.
As tension escalates, the Tembe people have now been forced to take up arms and confront the loggers, sparking violent clashes deep within the jungle.
