It speaks to the resilience and strength of Chinese culture in helping the particular afflicted group align its interests with the general collective society, enabling them to live out their lives enduring the pains of their life situation.

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He says individuals often belong to sub groups within the Sapeur culture, such as the Piccadilly group, who dress in Scottish kilts.

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There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not being doted upon by parents.

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One year after the historic adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by the UN General Assembly, the Inter-agency Support Group was in Paris to deliberate on the challenging goal of weaving culture and identity into development.

UNESCO: Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Elsewhere in the issue you will meet the remarkable Diego Della Valle ( Life in Full), chairman of Tod's Group and a major player in many, many arenas of Italian life and culture.

FORBES: Editor's Note

The Marriott hotel group, for example, sends its sales representatives to China for a crash course in local culture, USA Today reports.

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The bull-leaping fresco, he says, is a picture of a group of constellations and formed part of an agricultural calendar, borrowed like much else in Minoan culture from Egypt.

ECONOMIST: Bullshot

This theme is proposed as main focus for the meeting of the International Working Group, convened on 24 October and formed by experts in representation of the participating ministries of culture.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The lack of sound policies within an investment organization is, in my experience, generally indicative of a culture where personal profiting is viewed as a privilege reserved for a select group of investment insiders.

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