Word: cockfights
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...When anthropologists observe cultures, they oftentimes choose a particularly unique social phenomenon that allows a glimpse into that culture’s canon of values: a Balinese cockfight, for example, or a Pueblo rain dance. These are the times when a people’s deepest shared emotions are on display, when their ideals and dreams take on ceremonial form. The good ethnographer realizes that these behaviors are not just aesthetic curiosities. They are codebooks of culture...
...Behind these sentiments lurks the endemic self-loathing that subtly defines many Harvard students’ view of their own success in the college admissions cockfight. We are selfish when it comes to rooming and selfless on the subject of transfer admissions because we’re embarrassed to be among higher education’s Elect, the less-than-ten percent of the applicant pool that did the impossible and got into Harvard...
...Cockfighting is undoubtedly the most popular sport in Nicaragua. Even the smallest hamlet has at least one cockfighting arena, and no town's patron saint festivals are complete without a cockfight tournament. There are 46 registered cockfighting arenas in the capital alone, and many other clandestine ones in people's homes. Managua's mayor recently announced the city's plans to build the largest cockfighting arena in all of Central America. The sport is illegal in the United States, but there are no movements to outlaw cockfighting in Nicaragua. Considering that 22 of the 91 lawmakers in the last National...
...Samita’s campaign slogan? Not quite. This one is courtesy of our friends in New Haven. “The Game 2004 (Fuck Harvard),” a special release by Yale rap squad 108 Tongues, dropped days before that glorified cockfight went down at Harvard Stadium...
...biting narrative that begins with a cockfight ends with a saturation of whiny phrases of adulation at gravesite. Brands’ attempt to make Franklin into a believable, fallible man dies once America is born. Lost is Franklin the pragmatist and born is the Franklin of elementary school boredom, a man worthy of reverence because he is dead, white and a founding father...