Tag: culture
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Six months out of the year I try to spend as much time as possible on the roof of my building in Brooklyn, where I'm cooled by a non-air-conditioned breeze, hear birds singing over the street sounds below, and see boats in the distant harbor going by the Statue of Liberty. There's a lot of ... Read More
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By Firouz Folani Institute of Near-Western Studies TEHRAN, Feb 24, 2011 -- As a wave of "people power" this month toppled dictators throughout the Americas, citizens of Africa and the Middle East—the world's prosperous democracies— felt joy and sympathy. Nowhere was this more true than here ... Read More
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Over the weekend I read Amy Chua's paean to "Chinese parents" in The Wall Street Journal with morbid fascination. What felt morbid was Chua's "Mommie Dearest" anecdote about battling with her 7-year-old because the little girl couldn't master a difficult piano piece (which involved threatening to ... Read More
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If modern medicine is simply the application of universal scientific knowledge to human bodies, then treatments for the same physical problems should be roughly similar all over the world. Instead, when Lynn Payer was researching her insightful book Medicine and Culture, she found that mastectomies ... Read More
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Great news, fans of continued existence! The world will not end in 2012, despite what you may have heard from a passing lunatic and/or viral marketer for this film. How do I know? Same way the doomsayers do -- a Mayan says so.Many an ethnic group can find itself canonized as a source of ancient ... Read More
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A lot of hay has been made in recent years out Paul Ekman's idea that some basic facial expressions are universal -- that all people express and recognize emotions like anger, fear and disgust in the same way, no matter where they grew up.In one famous study, for instance, people who lived in an ... Read More
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