Word: culturese
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Schrempp knows this is risky, because mergers often fail, and big ones fail more often. So DaimlerChrysler is dancing a transoceanic jitterbug that is testing the limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five...
Because Latin pop draws from different cultures, it also has the power to bring people together. "Latino people have a golden key in their hands, a common treasure," says Colombian-born pop-rocker Shakira, 22, who is working with Gloria Estefan to adapt her acclaimed 1998 Spanish-language CD Donde...
Puerto Rico is where it starts. It is an island inhabited by the descendants of black slaves and Spanish conquistadors; here cultures collided, rhythms intermingled, and salsa emerged, inspired by Africa and Europe and by New York City. Marc Anthony's parents hail from the island, and Jennifer Lopez, though...
In a Crimson op-ed published the week afterthis year's Cultural Rhythms, Fowler and co-authorKamil E. Redmond '00 said the festival exoticizesthe cultures it portrays by making ethnictraditions seem like amusing novelties withoutexplaining how these practices fit into theirperformers' complex, modern identities.
He noted that originally, many cultures were primarily hunter-gatherers who were mobile and would shift their camps according to the changing seasons and food supply.