Ethnic communities include a high concentration of at-risk individuals, and present cultural barriers to the uptake of stroke awareness messages, requiring community-based and culturally tailored health promotion interventions [ 31, 32].
And there's the flip side, presenting cultural narrative as art.
Our present cultural climate discourages empathy — a stay-in-your-lane policing has been afoot for a while now — and demands the performance of absolute authority.
Our present cultural landscape suggests we live in a period of profound corruption, in which the only value honored is that of money -- its earning, spending, making.
But then, after the Packers kicked their winning field goal and the final whistle blew, we were back in our present cultural moment.
In short, "Roads" is mostly a jumble of enigmatic glimpses at the Western past, present cultural gossip and now and then a literary perception, offered at flash-card speed by an omnivorous reader.
Any writer whose aim is to write about the present cultural and political moment must contend not only with the usual creative obstacles but also with the insistent ticking of the clock.
In a world of slow publishing and instantaneous news, he wonders, how can a writer have the chutzpah to write about the "present cultural and political moment" in fiction?
The museum's board, drained by writing last-minute checks to keep the wolf from the door, should sit down with collectors, former trustees and the past and present cultural leaders of Los Angeles.
He concludes: "One of the most striking and ominous features of our present cultural situation is the division between the technical language of the experts and the extraordinarily low level of the organs of mass communication".
