Category: Culture
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Groovy Goods Promotes Hippie Lifestyle Through Groovy Gifts
byGroovy Goods, a local hippie BOHO shop, hosted a festival recently where they entertained the neighborhood for 2 days, and at the same time donated bags of clothing for Clothing the Children, www.ctchildren.net. The store donated almost 200 shirts at a value of over $3,000. This is not a one-off event as Groovy Goods plan […]
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First annual People Fest educates public about different cultures
byLA CROSSE, Wis.- People of all different backgrounds are gathering at Riverside Park for the first annual People Fest. The Compassionate Community Faith Alliance is launching a new event to bring people together to learn about different cultures in the La Crosse Community. “We’ve been working on this for a while,” said Maureen Freedland, vice president […]
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Music industry’s silence in wake of R Kelly’s outburst is damning
byLack of condemnation of rapper’s ‘I Admit’ reveals culture untouched by #MeToo movement R Kelly is sorry. Sorry he’s been accused of mistreating women, sorry parents have, by his telling, pushed their teenage daughters on him, sorry that the Women of Colour wing of the Times Up movement is campaigning for record labels to boycott […]
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Changing Our Culture
byUnderstanding and compassion are the tools to evolve our culture. Our societal structure is not some randomly drawn immaculate conception of an intrusive external structure. It is a collection of agreements we have made time and again, over the course of thousands of years. An evolutionary unfoldment that has yet to catch up with the […]
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Popular Culture and Putin’s Legitimacy
byWASHINGTON, DC: The analytical tools of political science, which variously describe the Russian regime as undemocratic, illiberal, authoritarian or patronal, fall short of providing an understanding of legitimacy mechanisms at work in the Russian society. Popular culture, often seen as reflecting the values of the overarching political system, can also be an engineer of ideological […]
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Baseball’s shifting culture set to play out in MLB All-Star Game
byWASHINGTON -David Ortiz can now laugh, sort of, at the shifting culture of baseball. For Mike Trout, Nolan Arenado, Bryce Harper and most every other All-Star hitter, dealing with different defensive alignments is just part of the game. Tune in Tuesday night and there’s no telling where fans will see fielders at Nationals Park. Especially […]
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6 Warning Signs of a Bad Corporate Culture and How to Fix It
byBad corporate culture reflects on every company’s workforce and the service consumers. In the midst of a bad corporate culture, the company’s past reputation or achievements, level of talents, location, size, and awards won does not matter; the rewards are the same. And among all the attributes of a bad corporate culture is the long-term […]
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President Trump stands by ‘culture’ criticism of European immigration
byChequers, UK — President Donald Trump pressed ahead Friday with his complaints that European immigration policies are changing the “fabric of Europe” and destroying European culture. During a press conference with British Prime Minster Theresa May on Friday, President Trump backtracked on the criticism of May that he made in an explosive interview released as he […]
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White House music shaped culture
byNILES –The different type of music enjoyed by presidents and their wives at the White House has changed over the years from single piano performances to large lawn concerts. “Music in the White House” was spotlighted at a recent program at the McKinley Memorial Library by Christopher Kenney, director of education from the William McKinley Presidential […]
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‘World’s oldest’ biological colours found
byThe pink pigments produced by cyanobacteria more than 1.1b years ago are some 500m years older than previous colour pigment discoveries Sydney: Australian researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest biological colour in the Sahara desert, in a find they said on Tuesday helped explain why complex lifeforms only recently emerged on earth. The pink pigments […]
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