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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations | | English term or phrase: culturally sensitive | Is it Ok to translate the above as:
حساسية حضارية?
The term means: having cultural awareness of the sensitive issues relating to people from different cultural backgrounds.
If not, what would be a good traslation for this term?
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| | ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف | Explanation:
ملم بثقافات المجتمعات البشرية
مدرك للدقائق الثقافية أو الحضارية أو
التراثية أو التربوية
حساس حضاريا أو ثقافيا
ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف
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2 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 مرهف الحس تجاه ثقافات الأمم
Explanation:
Other suggestions:
مدرك للأمور الحسـاسة في مختلف البيئات الثقافية
ملم بما يميز شتى المجتمعات من أمور حساسة
etc.
حساسية حضارية is a noun phrase, not an adjective.
Fuad
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14 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 ملم بالخلفيات القومية
Explanation:
The meaning is "aware of the national backgrounds".
Part of the problem that we face is in the translation of "cultural". The Arabic word "ثقافية" usually refers to intellectual activity rather than social and ethnic identity. The latter may be expressed by "خلفيات قومية", although some may feel that this excludes ethnic, religious, and tribal differences within the same country.
The term "اجتماعية" does not work well because it may reflect social (as in life style and class) differences as opposed to cultural differences.
I wonder if the term "اختلافات مجتمعية" would be a valid word to use, and if so, does it provide the desired connotation?
Also in place of "خلفيات", you can experiment with words like اعتبارات, أعراف, and تغايرات.
I think also that how words you choose describe your subject depends on the structure of the sentence you are translating. You may deviate a little from literal translation to get the desired effect in Arabic. For example the following phrase uses an adverb:
متخذا في اعتباره اختلاف الأعراف القومية
"Taking in consideration the differing national norms and customs".
Instead of providing a term translation answer, I have thrown several issues on the floor because of the difficulty in rendering your subject. I hope that this helps a little.
Alaa Zeineldine
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Note added at 2002-02-25 18:56:06 (GMT)
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Here is an after thought:
منتبها لاختلاف الأعراف الاجتماعية.
You can ommit الاجتماعية and the phrase would still work.
The meaning roughly is \"alert to differences in social norms and customs\".
You can choose between منتبها and متنبها, that is \"muntabihan\" or \"mutanabbihan\".
Hope this helps a little more.
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1 day18 hrs confidence: ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف
Explanation:
ملم بثقافات المجتمعات البشرية
مدرك للدقائق الثقافية أو الحضارية أو
التراثية أو التربوية
حساس حضاريا أو ثقافيا
ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف
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| Feb 4, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya: | | Level | Non-PRO => PRO | | Feb 4, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya: | | Field (specific) | (none) => Advertising / Public Relations | | Field (write-in) | Government services => (none) |
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