Word: culturese
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What do 80-year-old grandmothers in Chinatown, baggy-pants-wearing youth in the Bay Area and haute couture have in common? At least one Harvard student is trying to find a connection.Originally conceived by Nathan P. Gunawan ’07, “Identities: A Fashion Showâ?...
Like her country, Sinnathambi Jeevatharsini is beauty torn. Just 9 years old, she has long black hair tied up in two loose knots on either side of her head, and a smile that explodes across her face, as if someone has switched on a spotlight. She's smart, too, likes...
Nice to hear from you, John. Now that you've defended your viewpoint so beautifully, talk to more parents and "creepy" teens who are living their lives in pain and look at recent books by Philip Graham, Madeline Levine or other clinicians dealing with teens and their families. Then, to...
Other industrialized cultures, like Japan, don't even have words for adolescence... Your position also flies in the face of the ultimate test: common sense. Teens are still completely isolated from adults in this country; their role models are more absurd than ever; more young people than ever are being...
Iraq's muslims need to study Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels to learn about the folly of using differences to divide people. All Muslims should forget about succession from Muhammad and simply be good Muslims. And good Muslims don't slaughter one another. When people aren't taught to...