culturally sensitive

Arabic translation: ذو حس حضاري مرهف

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English term or phrase:	culturally sensitive
Arabic translation:	ذو حس حضاري مرهف
Entered by:	Mona Helal

04:13 Feb 25, 2002

English to Arabic translations [PRO]
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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?

Thanks

Mona Helal KudoZ activity Questions: 644 (none open) (50 closed without grading) Answers: 1493
Local time: 02:20

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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Raghad
Local time: 19:20

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

مرهف الحس تجاه ثقافات الأمم

Fuad Yahya

4 +1

مُراع للخصوصيات الثقافية المختلفة

Nabil Baradey

ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف

Raghad

يتمتع بحس ثقافي

Salah Maduh

2 +1

ملم بالخلفيات القومية

Alaa Zeineldine

Answers

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

Fuad Yahya
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 286

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.

Alaa Zeineldine
Egypt
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

1 day 18 hrs confidence:

ذو أو ذا أو ذي حس حضاري أو ثقافي مرهف

Raghad
Local time: 19:20
PRO pts in category: 12

Grading comment

Thanks for the rich thought contributed by all

2 days 9 hrs confidence:

يتمتع بحس ثقافي

Explanation:
يتمتع بحس ثقافي

Salah Maduh
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 20:20
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic

2 days 13 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

مُراع للخصوصيات الثقافية المختلفة

Explanation:
I prefer this translation because sensitive here does not literally mean (حساس). In the context, it means both aware AND accomodating cultural differences. Therefore, I feel the word (مُراعٍ) is the nearest to this context.

Nabil Baradey
Local time: 20:20
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Arabic

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