Word: culturese
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That's partly because the world has so often come to Afghanistan. Located on the trade routes between East and West, the country has always been at a crossroads of civilizations. The Silk Road provided a vector for Buddhism to come from the east, while Hellenistic and even Egyptian influences...
There is certainly a myth in many cultures of the golden child, the young man who emerges from a period of uncertainty to lead his people to salvation. But in Pakistan, a land already ravaged by competing myths of religion and tribalism, it is clear that what this 19-year...
Harvard’s Asian American Association (AAA) has had a long and unsuccessful track record with advocating for the creation of an Asian American Studies concentration. The quest has, according to a Crimson news article in December, spanned twenty years and many hundreds of petition signatures. But before we...
-- Culture is not simply reflected in the nationality of its creative spirits, but also in the capacity of a country to welcome other cultures. France has a considerable lead here, having opened its arms to so many such creative spirits from all over the world. Many of Pedro Almodó...
I was happy to read your assertion that "Nobody takes culture more seriously than the French." That's right. Cultural creativity is alive and well in France - and in French. The French Culture Ministry spends $4.4 billion a year on the development and nourishment of culture, and I have never...