forbidden words: cultural differences

cultural adj. 1: of or relating to culture or culturing 2: concerned with the fostering of plant or animal growth.

from Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam Co, 1967.

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heritage n. Fair play is part of your heritage: tradition, birthright, inheritance, patrimony; estate, family possession, legacy.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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cultural heritage: the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are “heritage”; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society.

Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity). The term is often used in connection with issues relating to the protection of Indigenous intellectual property.

The deliberate action of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic museums and cultural centers promote, though these terms may have more specific or technical meanings in the same contexts in the other dialect. Preserved heritage has become an anchor of the global tourism industry, a major contributor of economic value to local communities.

Legal protection of cultural property comprises a number of international agreements and national laws. United Nations, UNESCO and Blue Shield International deal with the protection of cultural heritage. This also applies to the integration of United Nations peacekeeping.

from – Wikipedia contributors. (2025d, March 21). Cultural heritage. Wikipedia.

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example sentences: cultural heritage

Still, the dominant use of foreign languages and conceptualizations contributes to separating them from their cultural heritage.
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The third polarisation is of cultural heritage, which reproduces dominant cultural values of the past, and critical literacy, which pays attention to unequal power relationships.
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Such communities emphasize cultural heritage, values, and traditions.
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These communities undoubtedly place a strong emphasis on cultural heritage, values, and traditions.
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Each party brings to the clinical encounter its own cultural heritage and belief system about health, illness, wellness, and disease.
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Often, the family refers to their cultural heritage and to what they believe the patient would or wouldn’t want to do.
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Placing the ten countries along these dimensions enables me to see that the three key dimensions are highly flavored by cultural heritage.
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But its geographical position has also served to generate a rich cultural heritage of which most of us, to our shame, still know relatively little.
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A civilization’s pattern languages are often synonymous with its technical and cultural heritage.
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Many grasslands are now being acknowledged as having a multifunctional role in producing food and rehabilitating crop lands, in environmental management and cultural heritage.
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An important aspect of their cultural heritage was that participants did not expect to live with their children or be a burden to them.
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One conclusion that can be drawn from the project is particularly important, both for scientific research and for the management of our cultural heritage.
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A competent patient’s best interest cannot be accurately inferred from simple knowledge of his or her cultural heritage alone.
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Analysis of data reveals three underlying principles, namely, reciprocity, elders as transmitters of cultural heritage, and the social significance of auspicious days and festivals.
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The family arena was undoubtedly the most frequently used scenario for the transmission of cultural heritage.
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The dark side of this concept is racism, namely the expression of the superiority of one race’s cultural heritage over that of another race.
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from – CULTURAL HERITAGE collocation | meaning and examples of use. (2025).

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April 25, 2025
Hudson Valley, New York

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