Bhangra (Punjabi: ਭੰਗੜਾ, بھنگڑا Hindi: भांगड़ा) is a form of dance and music which originated in the Punjab region of first Pakistan and India. It was one of the traditional dances of the Punjab region divided between India and Pakistan and sharing some of its origins, with dances in the north-west India, Afghanistan and even the Iran. She became, after the synthesis of the partition of India where the Hindu and Sikh refugees in India, shared their traditional dances from their former homes... Read Full Story
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Zarzuela (pronounced [θarˈθwela] in Spain, [sarˈswela] in Latin America), is a another popular Spanish folklor , is a lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. The name derives from a Royal hunting lodge, In 1657 at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, King Philip IV of Spain, Queen Mariana and their court attended the first performance of a new comedy by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, with music by Juan... Read Full Story
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Remember when not long after 9/11 President George W. Bush said that we should show our enemies that we aren’t intimated by going shopping? Bush’s detractors be damned, his plan worked!
Eight years and trillions of dollars in consumer debt later, the American-led recession has turned buying beyond your means into a form of global economic warfare. American impulse shopping, investor mania, and mortgage madness has dealt devastating blows to developing countries and emerging economies... Read Full Story
Scotland’s Sunday Times included within its multi-page coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks (11.30.08) an analysis that it called ‘anatomy of a terrorist’. An image captured of one of the attackers wearing cargo pants, a polo short, and strapped with a large duffle bag is diagramed from head to toe.
“Hair: The terrorists had neat haircuts…”
“Clothing: Attackers wore casual clothes including designer t-shirts, cargo trousers, denim jackets…”
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Susan Sontag once described three cultural sensibilities: high culture (the aesthetic of modernism, defined most of all by its seriousness and moralism); avant-gardism (including modernism but of the dystopian type; relishing unresolvable matters; preoccupied not with harmonies but with contradictions; attentive to the tension between morality and aesthetics; think Kafka); and finally camp.
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Jesus said: love your enemies. Immanuel Kant added that only by following the commandment to love your enemies could you know for sure that you’d done something significantly moral. Why else would you have done it, he reasoned, except because it was your duty?
Even Nietzsche, the antithesis of Jesus and Kant, believed that it’s the strong who respect their enemies and the weak who are hostile towards them.
These days, in case you hadn’t noticed, enemies are the new black.
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