When people travel abroad they often face culture shocks, sometimes people discover that things which are totally normal in their own culture are completely frowned upon in other cultures. It takes a while to adjust to the new culture that you move in any time you make it work. All cultures are different and we need to accept this reality of things
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Along with Brahma and Vishnu, Siva is one of the three great gods of Hinduism. Siva has many roles but is best known as both the destroyer and restorer of life. Siva is also the lord of the dance and is often shown dancing, as in a bronze statue. The circle of flames surrounding […]
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People have been weaving rugs for at least 4,000 years. Although they were used first as protection against cold, carpets soon had other purposes as well. They became symbols of wealth and popular items of trade. In Turkey, Persia, and Central Asia, rug weaving became a great art. Many of these carpets remain unsurpassed for
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The Roman Empire collapsed more than 1,500 years ago, but in many ways it never died. Instead, it continues to influence people throughout the world even today. Take language, for example. The Romans based their alphabet on that of the Etruscans who had borrowed theirs from the Greeks, who had borrowed theirs from the Phoenicians.
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Generating Genetic Diversity is of a great deal of importance to the survival and continuity of Humanity. Paradoxically, the evolutionary process is both revolutionary and conservative. It is revolutionary in that the pace of evolutionary change is quickened by genetic recombination, much of which results from sexual reproduction. It is conservative in that change is
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It is an unusual piece of art that is an enameled gold egg containing a completely accurate model of the Gatchina Palace near St. Petersburg. Only five inches high, it even includes a tiny flag flying from the palace tower. It is decorated with pearls and diamonds. Historians think this egg was given to the
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My distant friend Abdul stays in the Emirates, Abu Dhabi, he complains so much about having an ineffective swimming coach, he is not elegant enough, he declares so quiet often, how I wish he was here where I live, then his case would be a little less complicated. I continually advised him
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Chief Okalavou the ruler of the left western Indian tribe is fearing loss of his chiefdom, so he calls Bundokishva, one of his youngest sons, he tells him, “last night I had a dream, the most terrifying nightmare I have ever had since the day I was born.” “In my dream”, he
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Once a group of youths gathered in a huge stadium, all young recently out of school, physically fit and mentally clear. They have been recruited from every known continent. In their thousands, they line up, they have successfully endured many months of gruesome training, now they are ready for the field,
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A city of foreigners. A Middle Eastern man who had been living in North America for decades reached his breaking point when he got tired of many years of relentless name calling, he was tired of being yelled at with the silly old phrase of. ” GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY! RETURN
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Nations that are minimizing birth rates in their homeland slowly kill their native population and open themselves up for the world’s largest ethnic communities to penetrate. Man’s intellectual reasoning’s and thoughts are great, he decides that keeping a small family is the best thing for each citizens welfare and the nation as