Because Life Keeps Going
“Quiet whisper in the dead of night, tells me everything will be alright…” Read More ➤
“Quiet whisper in the dead of night, tells me everything will be alright…” Read More ➤
Despite half a life of being a social anthropologist at heart, I just don’t understand people sometimes. This exchange is from early 2018, but it struck just enough nerve that I took notes and promised myself to revisit. I have Read More ➤
I’ve thought many things about gender equality, misogyny, and the cultural basis of gender roles and norms—and the changes to those roles and norms. To be sure, there’s plenty of material for such discussion lately!
But I suppose … Read More ➤
Leave it to a Google+ discussion about American candy imports in the UK to get me thinking about cultural comfort zones, branching out, and embracing the unfamiliar. It seems that his local Tesco now has an endcap dedicated to “quintessential” American imports like peanut butter Snickers, strawberry Fluff, PopTarts, and Butterfinger bars. The prices were quite ridiculous on some items and the selection was, well, strange. He couldn’t understand why such common and random items were imported at all, especially at those prices. I decided it must be because people like to seek out something familiar when in an unfamiliar place, and Americans make… Read More ➤