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ideological barrier

Definitions of ideological barrier
  1. noun
    a barrier to cooperation or interaction resulting from conflicting ideologies
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    types:
    iron curtain
    an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
    bamboo curtain
    an ideological barrier around communist China especially in the 1950s and 1960s
    Jim Crow, color bar, color line, colour bar, colour line
    barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
    type of:
    barrier, roadblock
    any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
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