As Lawrence E. Harrison explained in his book "The Central Liberal Truth," Haiti, like most of the world's poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences.
Haiti, like most of the world's poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences.
Mr. Mele said he was particularly concerned about "cultural displacement" and the disappearance of the "locally, politically resistant, culturally different quality of the neighborhood and its immigrant past".
Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a pest control strategy that uses an array of complementary methods: natural predators and parasites, pest-resistant varieties, cultural practices, biological controls, various physical techniques, and the strategic use of pesticides.
"And that, like Imam Khomeini, he was especially resistant to foreign cultural influences".
Mass culture has grown and evolved; it has become more fully "naturalized" and therefore further resistant to critique, even as cultural criticism flourishes.
Young and female respondents appeared to be the most resistant to change, reflecting a cultural inertia that mirrors studies of other pressures on traditional societal values.
If the prevailing organizational cultural climate is resistant to learning, then only coordinated efforts by leadership, using strategies such as organizational restructuring, emphasizing performance discordance, championing change, and using incentives that promote adoptive practices, can induce cultural change [ 52].
IPM for disease (bacterial wilt, viruses, and late blight) management also involves a combination of a number of approaches including use of resistant varieties, clean seed, fungicides, cultural practices (planting at high altitude, crop rotation), and farmer education [ 28].
Clear delineation is needed, though, between genuine ethical considerations and those simply borne of more affected academic-cultural norms or resistant to practical change – we need to head off any unfair accusations of 'special treatment' being granted to these disciplines purely on political grounds.
