"Present populations are drawing upon a common heritage of ideas that has been around for some time," he said.
I believe that, if anything, this escapee stands for Plato's heritage — his ideas, which, unlike Socrates' body, could not be put to death.
Reuben Negron, a Latino artist raised in a white community, has struggled over the years to distinguish an authentic sense of his Latino heritage from ideas about it derived from his surrounding culture.
The heritage biker idea seemed forced.
Despite the last three Forward prize winners being of Afro-Caribbean heritage, this idea that people of colour succeeding in poetry is not merely rare but suspect is both common and false.
But Ms. Castro, who lives in Lloyd Harbor and has been a central player in bringing the heritage area idea to Long Island, said the designation elevated an area and gave people a sense of pride as well as a sense of place.
Since Spinoza presents a radical alternative to the Cartesian philosophy that has shaped our intellectual and cultural heritage, exploring his ideas may lead us to question some of our deepest assumptions.
Berni Searle of South Africa, whose background is African and European, photographs parts of her body smeared with brightly colored spices, as if to claim a heritage and suggest ideas of exoticism and consumption that the term "colored" implies.
One of the cornerstones, physical and philosophical, of that heritage is the idea of terroir, a term for which there is no exact English equivalent.
But Obama also made nods to diversity, the importance of the country's "patchwork heritage," and the idea that the country had "chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord".
