Linking rich with poor neighborhoods, spurring private development, the metro, notwithstanding shrieks elsewhere in Colombia over its questionable construction cost, is for residents of Medellín a shared symbol of democratic renewal.
This select group of artists has brilliantly illuminated this territory, by using their own psychic signs to reshape the shared symbol of our city.
Despite the increasing importance of virtual space in our 21st-century world, flags remain a visible and shared symbol of our ideas and beliefs.
Today, shared symbols, shared institutions, shared visions are so distant as to be inconceivable.
Rather, people in different nations, often with conflicting viewpoints, participate in a shared conversation, drawing upon shared symbols.
Studying how people communicate in novel settings provides a window into the mechanisms supporting the human competence to rapidly generate and understand novel shared symbols, a fundamental property of human communication.
Since 2001, when riots revealed how little whites and Asians mixed in some northern cities and September 11th showed how useful shared symbols like flags can be, this enquiry has become more urgent.
For online communities, humans have quickly developed tools to resolve this issue, creating shared symbols, such as shorthand messages, emoticons, and memes, to express humor and other complex ideas.
Rather than taking the ideological basis of kinship for granted or assuming it to be of less importance than strategic interests related to status and property, Schneider examined kinship as a cultural system that is based in shared symbols and meanings.
The result, she demonstrates, is richly elaborate verse filled with shared symbols and themes that a wide range of audiences could understand and find meaningful.
The article reviews thirteen justifications for public culture and cultural policy in the U.S. context: public interest, national security, merit, moral worth, the good life, economic development, politics, education, democracy, American identity, shared symbols, diversity, and innovation.
