What is a cultural tide

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No luck googling it. Is that just improvements in culture.

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

So what is the sentence that "cultural tide" is in?
The phrase by itself has no particular significance.

Oliver01 · Answer

Oh well I have this slide with a picture of a book and the title of cultural tide.

I also really want to see more context for this but that's all I have.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Here are a couple of Google hits:

LIFE'S EXPERIENCES have taught Sanford Hampton much about what it means to be in the minority. As the new assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, he looks forward to reaching out to the homeless, minorities and people with AIDS Hampton says he is excited that a major part of his responsibility will have him swimming against the cultural tide as he ministers to groups many people have grown tired of - the homeless, minorities, people with AIDS.

Excelling against the Cultural Tide
Michael Sipser, the head of MIT ’s math department, said recently in a New York Times article, “There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn’t really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics”

In both cases, "cultural tide" refers to the direction of popular sentiment or opinion.
It is used in the context of contrarian thinkers - those who are non-conformists.

CalifJim · Answer

Oliver01What is a cultural tide?

The ups and downs (like the tides of the ocean) of a society, more specifically, trends in beliefs, desires, hopes, fears, etc. that apply in a general way to a whole society or nation or group of nations.

CJ

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