raising awareness meaning and definitionraising awareness mean? Here you find 3 meanings of raising awareness.
What you do when you want to look like you're helping without actually having to help.
"Raise Awareness" is a buzzword meaning "Doing something that I think solves the problem to look good, but in reality doesn't actually solve the problem"You can "Raise Awareness" by liking pictures of poverty and people with diseases, commenting on them with generic "its so sad" phrases, or by posting on a companies facebook wall telling them that they need to change one of their products to 'raise awareness' about an issue. All of which don't solve the problem or raise money for it, such as going on a charity run or volunteering to help.
A term used by media-savvy organizations who are all about taking meaningless action that is guaranteed to get their face plastered all over the news, but doesn't do one damned thing to actually fix the problem.
This means generating trouble around you
raising Cain: 1. The act of raising or striking with a cane in anger. 2. Raising Cain from the grave, as in biblical times. (Cain and Abel brothers.)
Raising chickens: When a male or a female tries to pick up on the opposite sex. Originates from the pick up line: X:Do you raise chickens? y:No X:Cause you raise my cock.
Usually occurring on a Friday night after a long work week, this term refers to driving around with your friends doing absolutely nothing because you aren't old enough to get into bars and there's nothing better to do 'round these parts. This activity is most common among teens from rural communities and small towns who mislabel it as "raising hell" to make their lives sound less dull and more badass. Though "raising hell" is often more boring than badass, it is sometimes known to include SERIOUS badass activities, such as loitering, underage drinking, running red lights, and even swerving a couple feet into a cornfield just to be an asshole!
To cause or start trouble