Translation of "Leitkultur" in English

Since 1988, the Festival has enriched the dominant Bavarian Christian culture with its multicultural orientation.

But which dominant culture should and can it be?

Well, beside to the German "guiding culture" there are actually other cultures...

Without a guiding culture most people cannot and do not want to live.

Or is this the much-talked-about German cultural orientation?

However, I wish for something other than a German Cultural Identity.

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

As German citizens, your duty is to remember that the German culture is the primary culture. Do you accept this?

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

The European guiding culture is an intercultural synthesis of science and law, ethics and religion.

Some of his political speeches are contained in the compilation Humanismus als Leitkultur (2006).

The use of such tactics may say much about the mainstream culture's preoccupation with sexual behavior.

Should we really remember the occidental and Christian-Jewish values of our Cultural Identity?

Do you think a society needs a major cultural guideline, a so-called “Leitkultur”?

Europe needs a new cultural identity.

Both did not want to speak of a dominant culture but instead spoke up for liberality and a post national understanding of being German.

Well, I still do not know what our average German politician means when he says German Cultural Identity.

Such “guiding culture” in Europe would be the universality of Enlightenment.

Thanks to political correctness, the indigenous peoples of Europe are all too easily labelled right-wing extremist or even racist for insisting on their basic culture, whilst migrants seldom face this problem. The Islamist parallel societies now existing throughout Europe are often underestimated.

But this does not in any way change what I said clearly just now, that we also need to pay attention to the small details, that we must not forget the superior culture of a European agricultural policy which is geared towards social and ecological concerns, and that we should always check measures to ensure that they are also having the desired effect.

The attacks in London, the murder of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and the street battles in France are evidence of the fact that we must, in future, carefully examine those who seek citizenship as to their capacity for integration into the majority culture.

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

Reports on the status of deaf members of such Aboriginal communities differ, with some writers lauding the inclusion of deaf people in mainstream cultural life, while others indicate that deaf people do not learn the sign language and, like other deaf people isolated in hearing cultures, develop a simple system of home sign to communicate with their immediate family.

Boing Boing magazine referred to Grenzfurthner as leitnerd, a wordplay with the German term Leitkultur that ironically hints at Grenzfurthner's role in nerd/hacker/art culture.

Theo Sommer, then publisher of Die Zeit, was one of the first to use the term German core culture, as part of a debate about the assimilation of immigrants in Germany, and national core values: "Integration necessarily implies a far-reaching assimilation onto the German guiding culture and its core values" („Der Kopf zählt, nicht das Tuch“, Zeit 30/1998).