At least, not while your present society is the dominant culture on Earth.

They are not considered the dominant culture in this country.

It's the dominant culture, the way we look at things.

Perhaps it is because of their dominant culture and its influence over us.

And having everybody listen to it would not make dominant culture more interesting.

I sometimes feel left out when mixing with people of the dominant culture.

They don't know whether to believe their parents or the dominant culture."

But this motivation will not come about until there is a big change in the dominant culture.

But for all it was a way of responding to the groups' changed relationship to the dominant culture.

At the level of ideas, there were many common complaints about the dominant culture.

There are several ways in which members of a muted group can face their position within the dominant culture.

Dominant culture is defined as the majority cultural practices of a society.

Our dominant culture does not like or accept limitations easily.

But for many in our dominant culture all this is largely irrelevant.

We have played a disturbing part in the construction of the dominant culture which is white and western.

People from a dominant culture take these things for granted, but minority students have to build them.

Within our own dominant culture, probably more of the latter group will be men than women, though not exclusively so.

"The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture."

People from the dominant culture may not know what they don't know.

First Nations traditions are constantly under pressure from the dominant culture in society.

Much of his work, he says, is about claiming a space to express yourself when the dominant culture doesn't include you.

The dominant culture has the most influence in shaping a landscape.

"Living in a place where the dominant culture is to take one day at a time threw me no end.

It was an uneven confrontation of the dominant culture with the traditional.

That artists have always lived and worked in opposition to the dominant culture is no revelation.

Lammert insisted that he had never spoken of a German Leitkultur.

Lammert now restated his demand for a re-opening of the Leitkultur debate.

The concept of Leitkultur figured prominently in the national debate about a test for immigrants to Germany.

The mass-circulation Bild today described Leitkultur as an "unspeakable word."

This idea of 'Leitkultur' today, in a post-national Europe, is completely crazy."

Why this discomfort with multiculturalism, this belief that assimilation, accepting the leitkultur, is the only way?

He defined it in terms of what are commonly called western values, and spoke of an European rather than a German 'Leitkultur'.

"Humanismus als Leitkultur.

Many political figures and commentators have been saying that immigrants should accept what the Germans call the leitkultur, the dominant culture, as their own, or they should leave.

The essential elements of the German culture were not specifically German, he said, and it would be better to speak of a European Leitkultur.

It became the Leitkultur of the Roman Empire to the point of marginalizing native Italic traditions.

Mr. Merz has been called that, as well as a fool and provocateur, since he first used the term Leitkultur in mid-October.

Coming 10 years after German reunification, Mr. Merz's "Leitkultur" statement quickly led to a soul-searching debate about the nation's identity.

Pautz, Hartwig: Die deutsche Leitkultur.

A leading conservative politician has ignited a political storm by saying that the millions of foreigners in Germany must adopt a German "Leitkultur," or guiding culture.

In its lyrics, Egotronic often communicates political messages, for example on the debates on Leitkultur or Jürgen Möllemann.

He added that Germany needs to be more international and more modern rather than succumb to the "half-baked ideas" of a German "Leitkultur" - or guiding culture.

Bassam Tibi first suggested a 'Leitkultur' in his 1998 book Europa ohne Identität ('Europe without identity').

The German language term Leitkultur is a politically controversial concept, first introduced in 1998 by the German-Arab sociologist Bassam Tibi.

The Leitkultur furor appeared to reach its awkward culmination this week when the weekly Der Spiegel asked Ms. Merkel to free-associate from the word "Germany."

The opposition Christian Democrats, for example, speak of Leitkultur, or guiding culture - a potpourri of Christian and Enlightenment values to which immigrants are being asked to conform.

Criticisms of parallel societies established by immigrant communities increasingly came to the fore in the German public discourse during the 1990s, giving rise to the concept of the Leitkultur ("lead culture").

In 2005, the new presiding chairman of the Bundestag, Norbert Lammert (CDU), proposed a re-opening of the debate on a Leitkultur.

Mr. Stoiber and the conservatives have emphasized the concept of Leitkultur, or guiding culture, to try to ensure that immigrants and their children assimilate, learning the German language and customs.

The title is a pun on conservative politician Günther Beckstein's term "deutsche Leitkultur" ("German leading culture"), demanding that foreigners subject themselves to the supposed standards of German culture.