culturally disadvantaged

culturally disadvantaged

euphemism Impoverished; lower class. Culturally disadvantaged people like us are shunned from a lot of places on this side of town.
See also: culturally, disadvantaged
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • culturally deprived
  • disadvantaged
  • culturally
  • culturally advantaged
  • advantage
  • maker
  • bat for both teams
  • between jobs
  • between projects
  • a visit from the stork
References in periodicals archive
Last week, Emirati Women's Day celebrated the advances of females in the UAE, which has been among the leaders in the Arab world for promoting women in a traditional society where they are sometimes culturally disadvantaged.
INTERVIEW: Dubai's Doyenne of the behavior-changing business
It will also specifically support eligible households from socially and culturally disadvantaged groups harness their existing assets, skills, and resources; break their entry barriers to value-added economic activities; enhance their ability to access finance, markets, technology, and related support services; help them graduate to value-added economic activities with higher returns such as garment manufacturing and food processing units, eco-tourism ventures, and businesses around creative industries.
World Bank approves $100m loan to promote rural enterprises
This initiative would particularly benefit the talented but economically and culturally disadvantaged students to access higher education in agriculture and food security, he said.
He said that USPCAS was actively working on building the capacity of UAF to produce the highest quality workforce in the fields of food and agricultural production, bridge the gap of academic research with industry and government, conduct client oriented applied research in focus areas to ensure sustainable agriculture and food security, provide opportunities to talented but economically and culturally disadvantaged students to higher education and to perform curricular reforms to offer the most relevant educational programs.
USAID Provincial Director calls on VC UAF
He said that we are also committed to provide opportunities to talented but economically and culturally disadvantaged students to higher education and to perform curricular reforms to offer the most relevant educational programs.
US committed to serve Pakistani people in education, agri sectors: Zachary
We hypothesize that these Asian Americans are culturally disadvantaged in moving up within corporate America, and that this disadvantage is similar to the disadvantage American women face in getting ahead.
Ethics and leadership: a comparison of Hobbesian men, Gilliganian women, and Confucian Asians
Training for thematic-fantasy play in culturally disadvantaged children: Preliminary results.
Integrating Thematic-Fantasy Play and Phonological Awareness Activities in a Speech-Language Preschool Environment
any culturally disadvantaged people [to] participate in the dominant culture and derive the benefits that accrue from that participation.
Milieu deprivation and its implications for education in the Republic of South Africa
Perhaps she does not know that culturally disadvantaged people can be heartbroken too."
Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women
Regional groupings can lead to an openness of political culture and "a readiness to compensate culturally disadvantaged members of minority groups" (p.
Liberal Nationalism
The career aspirations and occupational interests of culturally disadvantaged children.
Psycho-social correlates of giftedness among deprived minority children