Reveling in dislike can give us a modicum of control in a world that inundates us with content.
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Loudly proclaiming your dislikes isn’t snobbery. There can be a power and poetry to putrescence.
Children watching an old Hindi film at a video centre in Tamale in Ghana in 2016.
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Depictions of Indian life in cinema and soap operas have found particular affinity with communities in Northern Ghana.
On December 8, 2020, Paris’s Olympia Theatre protested that cultural venues were seen as “not essential” by the government.
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The French government, by prioritizing only “essential” sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic, is ignoring the importance of its culture and cultural assets.
Paragliding near Nkawkaw draws thousands of visitors every April.
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Festivals in Ghana are evolving as tourist attractions.
More Ghanaian men are becoming comfortable with family roles.
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Men are increasingly expected to share housework and spend time with their partners and children.
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What role does culture play when it comes to disasters?
Pedestrians walk past a waste bin for disposable face masks in Aarhus Center, Denmark.
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The word, which roughly translates to considering the needs of society above your own, has become a buzzword in Denmark.
Many women feel it’s safer and easier to be single.
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Although society portrays a woman who earns a living as free and empowered, outdated values and stereotypes still promote discrimination against female breadwinners.
Family Camping at Phillip Island, Victoria, 1951. Photographer: Leslie E. Chambers.
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We surveyed 1461 Australians and discovered many are museum regulars — but it’s family history that has broad appeal.
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The amount going to arts and culture is a pimple to a pumpkin compared to what’s being pumped into the economy as a whole.
At a dance class supported by Cambodian Living Arts, students from the Bassac community.
learn classical Khmer dance at Sothearos School in Phnom Penh in 2012.
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Cambodia found the strength to rebuild itself
through art after the 1979 genocide. While the context is different, this example suggests the importance of art in navigating COVID-19.
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The state-sponsored pop cultural renaissance of Korea shows how language isn’t an obstacle to world domination.
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Ko tā te kāwanatanga Kōrea whakahou i te ahurea o te marea, kei te whakaatu kāore te reo e aukati ana i tō angitu i te pae matawhānui o te ao.
When it comes to online dating, writing something short but funny on your profile will help you stay in the game.
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People looking for a potential partners online highly value a sense of humour but immigrants struggle with local jokes.
Ward Cleaver of the popular sitcom ‘Leave It to Beaver’ in his study.
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For decades, home workspaces were portrayed as the domain of men. Now, with many families all working under one roof, women are paying the price.
A scene depicting the jatilan dance in November 1828 .
In a chapter of my latest book, I highlight some of Indonesia’s most innovative and culturally significant films and directors over the past 70 years.
Stephanie Lake’s dancework Colossus.
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Where the policy debate has focused on a need to ‘rescue’ the cultural sector from the ill-effects of COVID-19, the emphasis must now be on growing it as part of a wider program of public investment.
Are there innate differences between female and male brains?
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Attempts to find brain structures responsible for supposed cognitive sex differences have not succeeded.
Moody Naples.
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Naples holds an enduring – and ambiguous – place in cultural representations of Italy.
Readers don’t always know how to distinguish fact from opinion.
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It is a tenet of American journalism that reporters working for the news sections of newspapers remain entirely independent of the opinion sections. But that wall may be invisible to readers.