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The Chinese New Year Parade
By Ray Ritchey · 14 years ago
All Chinese communities go ecstatic and extravagant celebrating Chinese New Year. One of the highlights of this is events the Chinese New Year parade. The Chinese New Year Parade continues to amaze and delight the ...
Harappa's Civilization
By Mansoor Lakhani · 14 years ago
Archaeologists discovered two 4000 year old cities lying 400 meters away from each other on the bank of the River Indus. Harappa is one of the largest and most important cities of the Indus Civilization. ...
Why Are Reality Shows So Popular
By Vaughn Alaine-Marshall · 14 years ago
Switch on the television at any time of the day, you are almost sure to find a reality show on some channel or the other. Chances are that you have watched at least one of ...
The History of Reality TV
By Vaughn Alaine-Marshall · 14 years ago
Reality TV is not all that modern a phenomenon. The very first reality TV show was Candid Camera by Allen Funt which was telecast in 1948. The show caught people in embarrassing, funny and light ...
Depth Perception - Deciphering Hindu Iconography
By Uday Gunjikar · 14 years ago
The iconography of the Hindu culture and religion can be pretty bizarre and terrifying. Having grown up in India, I have found parts of it to be downright confusing, personally. Take, for example, the concept ...
Weaving the Tribal Sidhe Together
By Elizabeth Kirwin · 14 years ago
The tribal Sidhe have a history that predates the written word. This history is kept alive by this half-human race – who are the keepers of their own lore. Shannon Avery traces these strangelings and ...
Halloween and Its Spooky History
By Benedict Smythe · 14 years ago
Halloween is one of the most enjoyable and funniest events celebrated yearly. It is enjoyed by both children and grown-ups. Aside from the joy and thrill it gives, it also serves as a way of ...
A Look At Kenyan Culture
By Mon Businge · 14 years ago
While Kenya culture has evolved to encompass Western, Asian and Arab influences, it still retains a distinctly African identity. Examples of the dominant forms of language, dress, food, music and dance illustrate this point well. ...
Dos and Don’t: Chinese Culture
By Ashu Kaushik · 14 years ago
Chinese people may be changing fast, however they are still highly traditional and very particular about their cultural values. Paying respect to their local customs will make your stay pleasant. Here are a few tips ...
Spanish Fiestas and Festivals
By Reeva Jackson · 14 years ago
Colorful Spanish fiestas and festivals are as unique and diverse as the nation and her peoples. While most of the Spanish fiestas and festivals are celebrated nationally, there are many that are observed regionally, a ...
Express gratitude on thanksgiving
By Aunt Annie · 14 years ago
Everyone worldwide knows that Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. This day is not the same in both the country, hence the Canadian thanksgiving and American Thanksgiving are different ...
Labor Day and Beyond
By Tony Francis · 14 years ago
Driving in September on Florida’s roads and highways presents some special challenges for motor vehicle operators who happen to be Floridians.
This Labor Day weekend, AAA estimates that 1.6 million drivers hit Florida’s network of ...
RACE Today- Can We Really Talk About It?
By Nan Ray · 14 years ago
Race, race - everything’s ‘bout race? This should be lyrics to some new song. Everywhere we turn some media personality in America is reporting on race, interviewing authorities about race, and labeling, categorizing, and detailing ...
Why We Give Presents At Christmas
By Paul Smith · 14 years ago
Every year on December 25th we celebrate the tradition of giving gifts to our friends, family and loved ones whilst very few of us understand the reasoning behind doing so. There is a lot of ...
Comparing Overseas Chinese and Indians
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis · 14 years ago
Ask the average Chinese what they think of the mainland Chinese who have been educated or worked overseas and the typical response will be the politically incorrect term describing the said individual as a "banana" ...
The Nafaqah in Islam
By Prof. Gabriel Sawma · 14 years ago
In Islamic Shari’a, nafaqa is defined as an obligation of material support for the wife and children. This is a gendered entity in Islamic marriage, as long as the marriage has been consummated. When the ...
Ethiopian History
By Abesha Habesha · 14 years ago
Ethiopia has seen human habitation for longer than almost anywhere else in the world, possibly being the location where humans evolved.
Evidence of Naqadan contacts include obsidian from Ethiopia. The first records of Ethiopia proper ...
Who Was The Mysterious Queen Nefertiti?
By Rob Mabry · 14 years ago
In 1924, a bust of a beautiful woman was put on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust depicts a woman with a long, slender neck and possessed of great beauty. In fact ...
Radical Islam Threatened by Hollywood
By Uday Gunjikar · 14 years ago
Not long ago, I ran across an article on the web—an Associated Press release—that included the following passage (quoted verbatim):
Elsewhere in the northwest, a car bomb exploded close to a movie theater in the ...
Amish Country Stores of Northern Indiana Offer a Unique View on Life
By Sean Hess · 14 years ago
A lot of citizens do not know a lot about the Amish, and are slightly ignorant when it comes to learning something new about a culture that is different from their own. If you were ...