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| | East Timor Leste: Languages, Culture, Images (Timor Timur - Timor Lorosae) |
 | | School statistics have, in fact, jumped exponentially in East Timor: in 1976, there were 47 elementary schools, 2 junior high schools, and no senior high schools. | | | The number of pupils, likewise, jumped from 13,501 in elementary school, 315 in junior high school, and none in senior high school in 1976 to 109,844 in elementary school, 17,351 in junior high school, and 2,948 in senior high school by 1986. | | | This becomes even more critical in light of the fact that, according to the 1980 census, less than 30% of the population of East Timor spoke - or understood - Indonesian (Department of Information 1984: 39). |
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| | Culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | (Note that some classifications relegate both high and low cultures to the status of subcultures.) | | | while a 2002 document from the United Nations agency UNESCO states that culture is the | | | Modern cultural theory also considers the possibility that (a) culture itself is a product of stabilization tendencies inherent in evolutionary pressures toward self-similarity and self-cognition of societies as wholes, or tribalisms. |
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| | David Bukay: ARAB-ISLAMIC POLITICAL CULTURE |
| | Meanwhile, in Arab culture, the belief is that one should not hurry, since haste is the work of Satan ( al-`ajalah min al-shaitan), and one should not hurry, not even for blood vengeance. | | | Language is critical in importance in Arab culture. | | | This is a culture of hierarchy and discipline, of stiff homogeneity, contrasting with the pluralism and competition that indicates flexible heterogeneity in Western culture. |
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| | Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.02.26 |
| | Hingley stresses the Roman elite's exclusivity; Roman culture was the prerogative of the educated wealthy, who silenced and demeaned those without a sufficiently high level of cultural attainment. | | | For instance, he suggests that assertions of the Western world's foundation in Greco-Roman culture are simplistic and politically tainted. | | | In regard to a subject as contentious and politically charged as Roman imperialism, it is foolish to deny the influence of modern politics on scholarly assessments. |
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| | NEH Summer Seminar: Post-Wall Germany |
| | Drawing on the rich academic and cultural resources of the Five College Area of western Massachusetts, each Institute provided twenty-five high school teachers the opportunity to work with scholars active in these debates and to study and discuss relevant materials produced in Germany: selected literary texts, film and video, news media, and the internet. | | | "Germans and Foreigners" examines the status of different groups considered "foreigners" in Germany, including "guest workers" and asylum seekers, as well as the outbreaks of violence against them since unification. | | | The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this Web page are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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| | Culture Gets in the Way - Middle East Quarterly - September 1994 |
| | Israeli negotiators find it simply self-evident that constructive diplomacy--learning to appreciate the concerns of the other side, frankly revealing one's own preferences, exchanging and testing the feasibility of new ideas--requires face-to-face contact at a high level. | | | An Israeli journalist was let into Syria but the Israeli press was excluded from the two presidents' press conference of January 16, 1994. | | | The Israeli solution--direct negotiations--is anathema to the Syrian government; what is acceptable to Damascus--assertive mediation--is uncongenial both to Jerusalem and Washington. |
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| | soc.culture.german FAQ (posted monthly) part 4/6 |
| | Studying at a German University; Exchange Programs Foreign students from a large number of countries who want to study after high school at a German university or Fachhochschule need to attend the Studienkolleg for two semesters and pass an examination. | | | Goethe Institutes The various Goethe Institutes < http://www.goethe.de/ > (English page < http://www.goethe.de/eindex.htm/ >) are funded by the German government to provide an opportunity for people outside Germany to become acquainted with German culture and learn German. | | | The syllabusses of German foreign schools are at least partially identical to those in Germany, thus providing a qualification which is recognized in Germany. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/german-faq/part4
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| | Islamic Culture in Azerbaijan |
| | International and interreligious cooperation promotes the right vision of Islam, Christianity and Judaism as the institutes of forming of the high ethic human culture. | | | The salvation is in the search of identity in the different cultures and religions, striving to assert equal for all people humanistic values, new vision of high mission of modern religions, which serves for peace and life in the Universe. | | | Humanistic philosophy in the center of which is the man as the highest value of being must be put in the basis of internal and external politics of the states and public management of society. |
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| | Celtic History and Culture Oldest Settlements |
| | Dated to around the 750 - 400 BC period the archeological findings show a culture well versed in Iron Technology, unlike their Bronze Age predecessors, and a community involved in a high level of trade. | | | It is supposed that the Hallstatt culture emerged in the Upper Danube regions in Austria, Bavaria and Bohemia, where the earliest Hallstatt graves have been discovered. | | | This peasantry was probably made up of the remnants of the earlier Urnfield culture of Europe, as there is evidence of continuous occupation. |
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| | Yiddish culture |
| | In spite of all that has been done for Jews and Yiddish culture under the support of the German state after the second world war, the most intensive Yiddish life of west European Jews is characteristic of France. | | | As Mr Daniel Tarschys, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, stated on 2 May 1995, not only the Jews who died are to be commemorated, but also their traditions and culture made up of Germanic, Slav and Hebrew elements. | | | In the Kyiv Jewish school and the Kyiv Jewish high school (gymnasium) Yiddish is taught as a mother tongue and Ivrit as a foreign language. |
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| | Middle Ages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The "High Middle Ages" describes the expansionist culture and intellectual revival from the late 11th century to the beginning of the 14th. | | | History of the Jews in the Middle Ages | | | It has historically been termed the "Dark Ages" by Western European historians, and as Völkerwanderung ("wandering of the peoples") by German historians. |
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| | Cuba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cuba has a high abortion rate of 77.7 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 1996, 3rd highest in the world among 55 countries whose abortion rate was available to be compiled in a 1999 UN study. | | | Today, Cuba is a leading nation in biotechnology, and Cuban expertise is exported to Iran [100]; however some claim that this relates to biowar potential [101]. | | | Within Cuba, Che is held as a hero of the socialist movement, but only since the mid 1980s, when the launch of the 'Era of Rectification' saw his ideas being re-asserted as Cuba distanced itself from Gorbachev's USSR. |
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| | Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western Culture |
| | A staunch defender of the values of high culture, The New Criterion is also an articulate scourge of artistic mediocrity and intellectual mendacity wherever they are found: in the universities, the art galleries, the media, the concert halls, the theater, and elsewhere. | | | The historian Jacques Barzun has been a voice of moderation and sanity in American intellectual life for some six decades. | | | The questions with which intellectual history confronts us can be parsed as elements of that large, perennial question, "How should I live my life?" |
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| | FRONTLINE/WORLD . Kyrgyzstan - The Kidnapped Bride . Facts and Stats PBS |
| | Kyrgyzstan, sometimes dubbed "the Switzerland of Central Asia," is famous for its dramatic landscape of snowcapped mountains, glaciers and high-altitude lakes. | | | Because bride kidnapping is illegal in Kyrgyzstan today, gathering data from families who participate in the tradition is not a straightforward process, nor is determining whether a marriage resulted from a consensual or a nonconsensual kidnapping. | | | Though it remains illegal in the Kyrgyz Republic, the frequency of kidnappings appears to have risen after independence and continues to be on the rise as an element of the reclamation of Kyrgyz identity after Soviet rule. |
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| | Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Israel's Jewish population continued to grow at a very high rate for some years, and was fed by further waves of Jewish immigration following the collapse of the USSR. | | | According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2004, 76.2% of Israelis were Jews by religion. | | | According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2004, of Israel's 6.9 million people, 76.2% were Jews, 19.5% Arabs, and 4.3% "others". |
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| | Tajikistan |
| | The Communist Party of Tajikistan, the government (especially the higher offices), and economic management organizations were largely directed by men. | | | Tajikistan's designation in the Soviet economy as primarily a producer of raw materials meant that until 1992 agriculture was expected to provide the bulk of employment opportunities for the population. | | | Tajikistan's rivers reach high-water levels twice a year: in the spring, fed by the rainy season and melting mountain snow, and in the summer, fed by melting glaciers. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Popular culture studies |
| | To put it simply: the intellectual, in this view, can fully enjoy junk culture because of his or her high culture background, but the average reader can never raise to the learned intellectual discourse of which he or she is the object. | | | As Jim Collins argues in Uncommon Cultures (1989:2), there is no master's voice anymore, but only a decentered assemblage of conflicting voices and institutions. | | | Instead they tried to describe culture as a whole as a complex formation of discourses which indeed correspond to particular interests, and which indeed can be dominated by specific groups, but which also always are dialectically related to their producers and consumers. |
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| | Articles from LEAVEN: The Cultural Art of Breastfeeding |
| | A mother who is frustrated that her baby is "still" breastfeeding or breastfeeds irregularly, with high frequency, or for long periods may hold beliefs about time that focus on the future and emphasize scheduling. | | | Other Western European and Westernized cultures, though sharing some of the beliefs and practices described here, were not included so as to avoid potentially inaccurate generalizations about the many quantitative and qualitative differences among them. | | | Pacifiers (dummies or soothers) are introduced so the child will not depend on mother for all his suckling needs. |
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| | Cultural Studies |
| | Because the 18th and 19th century distinction between "high" and "low" culture is not appropriate to the mass -produced and mass-marketed consumption goods with which cultural studies is concerned, these scholars refer instead to popular culture. | | | Dick Hebdige is a cultural critic and scholar who has written extensively on popular culture and design issues, the anthropology of consumption, and media and critical theory. | | | "Popular culture studies" is the scholarly investigation of expressive forms widely disseminated in society. |
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| | Culture of Ancient Rome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A section of Roman citizens and the slaves imported from distant lands were highly talented and gave expression to their abilities in forms, which still survive, and tell a story of the high level of this facet of ancient Roman culture. | | | While many other important features of ancient culture were originally invented by the Greeks and merely (first) copied and (later) transmitted to posterity by the Romans, the development of a sophisticated legal system and of a legal science is a characteristically Roman achievement. | | | Roman legal science reached its peak in the first two centuries AD when the economic and political condtions of the |
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| | H-Net Review: Steven S. Gillick on Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua |
| | The clash of cultures in Nicaragua began with the Spanish invasion and the effort by the conquistadors to impose Hispanic cultural values on native Americans. | | | He notes that "the market-driven contribution of cultural artifacts from marginalized cultural and ethnic groups, poor colonies, and client states to centers of national wealth and power was a pervasive feature of virtually worldwide politics of culture in the nineteenth century" (pp. | | | The massive extent of U.S. military, political, and economic intervention in Nicaragua during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries guaranteed a high degree of U.S. cultural influence that reached its peak under the Somoza dynasty. |
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| | Humanism (Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture) |
| | In the High Renaissance, Rome was the center of the literary movement known as "Ciceronianism" that aimed to standardize Latin diction by modelling all prose on the writings of Cicero. | | | The first task in the humanists' revival of ancient literary culture was the rediscovery and collection of the surviving literary monuments of the ancient world. | | | The works of Theophylact of Euboea, an eleventh-century Byzantine exegete who had studied with the Platonist Michael Psellus, were especially welcome in the West owing to his conciliatory position on the Schism--Theophylact defended the Roman Catholic position against Greek intransigence on a number of key theological issues. |
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| | nauru |
| | She is the PR lady in Australia for the Republic of Nauru and, unlike the decrepit republic for which she speaks, she is a vision with her gleaming blonde hair, snazzy tailoring and killer shoes. | | | The delegation, comprising Australian High Commissioner to Fiji and Nauru Jennifer Rawson, two Health Department doctors and officials from immigration, foreign affairs and AusAID, is due to leave Canberra on Monday morning. | | | Of about 200 Afghanis on Nauru whose claims for refugee status have been refused, 22 were assessed by the UNHCR and the rest by the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs. |
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| | Culture of New York City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jewish American literature has also flourished in New York City due to the extremely high concentration of Jews in the area. | | | New York City is also home to the Jewish Theological Seminary, the world headquarters of Orthodox Judaism, as well as the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League. | | | New York City has a larger Jewish population than any other city in the world. |
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| | Vengeance by Charley Reese |
| | I tell you these anecdotes to point out something that apparently a great many American government officials haven't quite grasped: When we operate in an Arab country, especially Iraq, we are operating in a culture that places a very high value on vengeance and honor. | | | I'm sure we have some Special Forces people who understand the Arab culture and could call the right shots. | | | Just because generals are good at moving around tanks, airplanes and troops doesn't mean they know squat about the country or the culture in which they are fighting. |
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| | Minorities At Risk (MAR) |
| | Although the group has expressed high levels of political protest in the late eighties and early nineties, in response to Lithuania’s declaration of independence (PROT85X-90X = 5), since then, the government has adopted a number of positive measures and the levels of protest by the group have sharply declined as a result (PROT98X = 1). | | | Some of the most active ones include: Vilnius Russian Society, Center of Russian Culture, Russian Creative resources of the Baltics, etc. There have been no significant levels of protest by the group reported in the recent years (PROT98-00 = 0). | | | There is also a number of organizations which focus on promoting Russian culture in Lithuania. |
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| | AT THE SOURCE OF THE SLAVIC WORLD |
| | The question of whether it is possible to identify the ethnic affiliation of human groups whose existence is evidenced in a fragmentary manner by archaeological cultures continues to be highly controversial. | | | At present the Kiev Culture may be accepted with high probability as the oldest (end of the 2nd - mid 5th century) identifiable unit of earliest Slavs. | | | The Kiev circle generated new cultures, two of them, Prague and Penkovka, emerged late in the 4th and in the 5th century in fertile regions of the Ukraine and Moldavia vacated by the departure (presumably of not all) of previous inhabitants. |
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| | FRONTLINE/WORLD . Kyrgyzstan - The Kidnapped Bride . Links PBS |
| | According to UNESCO, tourism in Kyrgyzstan is growing at an annual rate of 15 to 20 percent, with visitors attracted to the nation's Tien Shan mountain range and Lake Issyk-Kul, the second-largest high-altitude lake in the world. | | | His photo portfolio on Kyrgyzstan contains images of traditional Kyrgyz society and culture, including photos of a game of Central Asian polo in which a goat or calf carcass is used in place of a ball. | | | Human Rights Watch's Kyrgyzstan Web page is replete with information about the state of human rights in the country. |
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| | Northern Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | These institutions have been suspended since 2002 because of unionist impatience at the pace of Sinn Féin's movement away from its associations with the Provisional IRA, which reached breaking point after PSNI allegations of spying by people working for Sinn Féin at the Assembly, although nobody was convicted after a high-profile police operation. | | | Northern Ireland was for many years the site of a bitter ethnic/religious campaign of violence between a minority of Catholics (who wanted it to be reunified with the Republic of Ireland) and a minority of Protestants (who wanted it to remain part of the United Kingdom). | | | Northern Ireland is one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. |
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| | MYSTERIOUS WORLD: Summer 2003: Serpent Mound Part II: Sacred Serpent |
| | The Hopewell culture was more technically advanced, particularly in the areas of astronomy, mathematics, and agriculture, but their relatively high degree of advancement appears to have become degraded by the time the people of the Fort Ancient period came upon the scene. | | | The Woodland cultures are to be distinguished from the Mississippian cultures, which began to appear near the end of the Woodland Period, primarily in the flood plains of rivers such as the Mississippi — hence, the name "Mississippian". | | | Their culture, and all of the major Woodland Period cultures that were to follow, was centered in the area that would later become known as the state of Ohio — specifically, southern Ohio. |
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