A second hypothesis is that a strong bicultural identity is associated with better mental health and treatment outcome, in contrast with low cultural involvement in both cultures or mono-culture, i.e. preferential adherence to either culture of origin or host culture.
My parents are of a low cultural level".
It's London – a messy, riotous, low cultural comedy of a place.
High and low cultural references snuggle up in the same paragraph.
But it didn't want to be equated with such low cultural activities.
"A lot of the salespeople had low cultural levels, but they had learned how to talk," Ma Li recalled.
The invading Dorians had a relatively low cultural level, and their only major technological innovation was the iron slashing sword.
"In Britain, cinema still has generally a low cultural value, and in India it is a snobbish thing to look down on Bollywood," Dr Bhugra laments.
"Equivalent, perhaps, to images of kittens or thatched cottages, sunset photographs have a low cultural status: they are characterised as sentimental visual confectionery indicative of limited aesthetic vision and an undeveloped practice; as childlike pleasures".
But the tale of women living together in a Shaker community (Shakers practice celibacy, so the sexes lived separately) is also an unexpected patchwork of high and low cultural influences.
The mix of high and low cultural aspirations, of darkness and light, that would mark both Robbins's career and personality was all there from the outset, nurtured by a stage mother who also shepherded his older sister, Sonia, from child stardom into a career as a Duncan dancer in the 1920's.
