• Afro-Uruguayans are among dis-advantaged groups in the country with access to cultural wealth hindered by poverty and lack of infrastructure.

    UNESCO: International Fund for Cultural Diversity

  • Participants rated favorably lines suggesting helpfulness, generosity, cultural literacy and wealth--like claiming to be the owner of a club and asking for a dance.

    FORBES: The Ten Worst Pickup Lines

  • In Asia "there is a huge cultural need that wealth has to be given from generation to generation, " says Premji who thinks the tradition of philanthropy that is so prevalent in the West will come to India eventually.

    FORBES: Azim Premji: India's Bill Gates

  • There is, certainly, a great movie to be made about a young baseball player from the islands or South America who enters an American-run baseball academy, gets a tryout with a minor-league franchise, suffers the cultural dislocations of American wealth and strangeness, and then, on the verge of success, hits a rock somewhere and capsizes before he can get to the majors.

    NEWYORKER: Sugar

  • London saw a wealth of artistic and cultural events during the Olympics, and that will continue during the Paralympic Games.

    BBC: London for the Paralympic Games

  • The importance of intangible cultural heritage is not the cultural manifestation itself but rather the wealth of knowledge and skills that is transmitted through it from one generation to the next.

    UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

  • This diverse range of sites demonstrates the wealth of natural, historical and cultural property contained and preserved within the UK today.

    UNESCO: World Heritage Sites in the UK

  • According to Malveaux, African Americans spend for the same reasons other Americans do, buying into mass media and our cultural images that associate status and satisfaction with material wealth.

    NPR: 'Minding Your Money,' Part 1

  • Although Timbuktu's wealth has declined sharply since then, its rich cultural legacy has stood the test of time.

    CNN: New fears for Timbuktu in Mali conflict

  • It will be a major cultural attraction for the town and the region, bringing visitors and wealth to the area and increasing trade for local businesses.

    BBC: Arts centre project funds appeal

  • Or it may reflect a set of cultural and financial prejudices - houses deemed to be a better investment than proper wealth-creating entrepreneurs - that has been the UK's curse.

    BBC: Should the Treasury take housing risk?

  • It is one of the earliest wrecks dating from the beginning of Spanish colonisation and disappeared with a huge cargo of gold and silver along with gems and cultural objects specially collected to show the king of Spain the extent of the wealth of the New World.

    BBC: Hunting for Cuba's hidden treasure

  • Although the symbolic core of cultural dignity is an end unto itself and thus cannot be reduced to matters of wealth and stratification, dignity as a part of the public sphere must be placed within the wider context of inequality, both political and economic.

    UNESCO: Arjun Appadurai - Cultural rights as an enabling environment for cultural diversity | Echoing voices

  • While there's no question that we've seen some institutional barriers to wealth creation for women of color, I think we also have to address some cultural factors by which women may be shooting themselves in the foot, so to speak.

    NPR: Women Of Color Lag Behind In Wealth

  • The museum's facade was being restored - in itself perhaps a reflection of the fact that the oil wealth which has funded a new era of exploration is also helping to fill the coffers of cultural institutions.

    BBC: Moscow Diary: The icy frontier

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