Political cycles are far from synchronized.

Globalization does appear to have weakened cultural differences noticeably in the past decade.

While they shared a religion, Islam, there were major cultural and linguistic differences between East and West Pakistan.

Hofstede's cultural dimensions enable users to distinguish countries but are not about differences between members of societies.

To make matters more confusing, differences in cultural attributes, manners and even culinary taste made for much discussion and at times, misunderstandings.

A New Zealand study showed in two separate samples a decrease in the number of persons reoffending one sample involving Maori offenders who met with representatives of their tribe and another involving offenders who met with victims and community panel members.

Different stages of development and the impact of cultural differences act to shape the nature, missions and performance of public administration systems.

Cultural variables seem to explain a lot religion and politics accounted for about half of the variation across municipalities.

Moreover, cultural differences between the US and Germany were not as great as those between the US and the Middle East.

Cultural differences aside, many Catalans feel attracted to independence because it would provide opportunities to build a new state that is more efficient, democratic, transparent, and innovative.

Additional facilitation, brokering and negotiating support was needed to help bridge the cultural differences and other barriers that such partnerships encountered.

For example, the EU s policy notes that foreseen flexibility rules can compensate for local climatic, cultural, or structural differences.

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By applying political anthropological methods, they conclude that while governments believe they apply concepts of good governance while making decisions, cultural differences can cause conflict with the heterogeneous standards of the international community.

The differences in the historical heritage of all countries, their cultural traditions, social and political structure, value systems and paths of development must not become a pretext for interference in the internal affairs of another State.

Motivated by these principles, Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and I showed through our Alliance of Civilizations Initiative in 2004 that cultural, historic, and religious differences are no reason for conflict.

The Cultural Contradictions of Multiculturalism

The point is that eventually, despite strong regional loyalties and various cultural and religious differences, the majority can identify as being simply Pakistani even though they may harbor radical differences about what this might mean.

Pakistan was created by the partition of British India in 1947, but its territory was divided into two enclaves separated by hundreds of miles. While they shared a religion, Islam, there were major cultural and linguistic differences between East and West Pakistan.

Are the differences real?

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Marketing or product differentiation is the process of describing the differences between products or services, or the resulting list of differences.

The World Health Organization develops a policy of approach to observing health differences and giving responses to such differences.

In recent years we have stressed the importance of establishing international standards and mechanisms for ethical and legal human rights frameworks in order to overcome historical and cultural differences so that human rights and respect for human dignity are held as superior values governing all nations.

In the US Cultural radicalism is sometimes used as the opposite of Cultural conservatism, especially in the context of Culture wars.

Awareness towards differences is growing in Brazil.

In immunology, the immunoglobulin isotype refers to the genetic variations or differences in the constant regions of the heavy and light chains.

Cultural and operational differences between the two sets of actors, insufficient understanding of military command structures and inadequate information sharing can lead to suboptimal and in some cases ineffective coordination.

Indeed, many argue that by refusing to take into account distinctions linked to ethnic and religious origin, these distinctions are legitimized.

The differences in the two countries growth patterns are striking, and raise significant questions for development economists. Can service be as dynamic as manufacturing?

For example, court ordered restitution to pay for alternative housing may not be an option if basic housing itself is not available. Similarly, reforms in the developed world such as publication bans and the use of video taped evidence may also presume a level of development and a level of criminal justice services that may not be available in all Member States.

However, companies also face difficulties associated with outsourcing of services, such as communication problems due to cultural and language differences, inappropriate infrastructure levels, inconsistent quality of products, or different time zone management issues.

These differences between hate speech and blasphemy are fundamental.

Self Evident Truths doesn't erase the differences between us.

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Most of these are harmless the really harmful ones don t survive long enough to show up anywhere.

Such differences can be more significant than the differences between groups, especially in the case of heterogeneous populations and value systems.

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Promotion of the enjoyment of the cultural rights of everyone and respect for different cultural identities

However, he could not explain the source of these variations.

The other differences between the diagrams are unrelated to structure.

New ways of expressing and resolving differences may be found.

Establishing such a mechanism will not be easy, as it requires a resource that is in short supply in Europe today trust.