The “mod” movement of the 1960s was not just a fashion or a type of music, but a lifestyle. Kin Groups. When Brazilians speak of “family” they usually mean a large extended kin group rather than the immediate family of spouse and children. This large kin group, the parentela , consists of all maternal and paternal relatives, along with in-laws. The parentela is at the core of social life and in time of need ideally provides assistance to its members. Such support can also be obtained through ritual kinship ( compadrio ) in which parents select additional allies and protectors as godparents for their children. Some claim that the multiple functions of these extended kinship networks has inhibited the development of extrafamilial organizations in Brazil, such as parent-teacher associations and garden and civic clubs. To Marxists, power implies oppression and therefore, should be overthrown in the name of liberation. The chief targets? The sacred things of civilization. Feminists, gay activists, Marxists, and other deconstructionists are on a mission to destroy that which is holy—to defile God. They abhor the family most of all—that institution of social reproduction, which involves a voluntary surrender to loyalties that bind you for life. They bind you most of all when you try to discard them. Satan works through men to bring about a world devoid of the sacred and in which the effort of social reproduction is no longer made. Wilson explains further that: “Mentally, culture involves the socially shared and customary ways of thinking, a way of encoding, perceiving, experiencing, ordering, processing, communicating and of behaviorally expressing information which distinguishes one cultural group from another. All these activities are dedicated to the end of adapting the culture to the consistent and changing demands of its physical and social environment and reciprocally adapting the environment to the demands of the culture. Though war and conquering were important to the Romans it usually ended well for them as the citizens of conquered nations were treated well and integrated into Roman society. However, the vastness of the republic became too much of a strain on the constitutional form of government and soon it was disbanded and replaced with an imperial government. (Thinkquest, 2010) The integration of Romans among other cultures and other cultures among Romans often led to the trading of ideas, traditions and beliefs systems among various cultures and civilizations. Great job. A people without the knowledge of their past,history,origin and culture is like a tree without roots. I will like that some of us in diaspora who do not know our roots should go back and trace it.
Gabrielle Coco Chanel plays a role in the modern fashion, and is also responsible for bringing America designers into the spotlights. It was she that created the first wool jersey cardigan which became really popular amongst women. Chanel had a fashion boutique called Chanel Modes at 21 rue Cambon. Menswear could be said to be made up of archetypal garments – the bomber jacket, the peacoat, the trench coat, the field jacket etc – while womenswear for the main part, isn’t (barring, perhaps, the little black dress). People arguing in defense of men in thongs say there is no reason men can’t wear any underwear they choose, that thongs are no less manly than any other underwear considered “acceptable” by all. While thongs may be revealing, they are cooler and feel free, particularly during the summer. Wearing white panty hose with a black pencil skirt is an obvious mistake! Always make sure that your panty hose match the hem of your skirt and your shoes to avoid this common fashion mistake. When you think about it in this manner, learning how to purchase high quality health and beauty products becomes important. These products can be found if you learn how to read labels. Take the time to go over every last inch of a product label. Find out what the product contains, read literature on the product, and then try to discern whether or not the product is right for your skin. From the days of the early struggles to now, our intellectual cadre has no yet realized what type of powers we are really up against and what their motives and modus operandi is. Instead, we end up joining our detractors in oppression and depressing of us(Africans), without even thinking about what we are doing-we conveniently forget and pretend that we are now living today, and the past does not affect us, since there’s nothing we can do about it. This is where One of my battles with anyone who thinks like that and says such statements that I have been dealing with head on and energetically opposed, throughout this Hub. Culture and personality are not like old clothes that can an be taken off and thrown away. The ability of anyone to learn even the simplest thing is dependent upon utilizing the existing cultural apparatus. “New” Cultures emerge out of older cultures gradually and never completely lose all traces of the old and the past. Human society is a cumulative process process in which the past is never totally obliterated. bdegiulio; Thank you very much Bill. The whole northeast of Thailand is not a region which generally attracts foreign tourists in the way that Bangkok, the islands and beaches to the south, or the hill tribe culture of the northwest does, but it’s a very laid back, rural part of the country, with customs, a cuisine and dialect unique to the area. Many people from this relatively poor part of Thailand, have in the past migrated to the city of Bangkok to seek a better living, but understandably still have a nostagic affinity for the region, and that must have helped drive the initial tourist interest in Chiang Khan.
If we see us as different and as ‘tribes’, other Nations will take our everything because we are too busy outdoing, out besting, pulling each other down like crabs in a barrel, they will own our everything, whilst we look on in puzzlement as to who the authorities about our culture are-but it will not be us the indigenous of South Africa. If one gets to have a holistic look at our cultural photographs or listen to our music and watch our dances, one is awestruck by this magnificent culture, so variable, and yet uniquely similar and the same-One Nation Of Africans In South Africa dotting the whole landscape of Mzantsi-like tentacles-interconnected. REMEMBER: Take time to study other cultures. Learn about ” Cultural Exchange ” and ” White Privilege ” to formulate a deeper understanding of this issue. 1981 SABC-TV makes its first live broadcast of a South African football match.1983For the first time, commercial sponsorships of soccer exceed R1 Sono buys Highlands Park, an historically White club in Pretoria and renames it Jomo Cosmos. This move by Sono signals growing Black power in South African soccer. The British are not afraid of being bold! During New York Fashion Week we saw a lot of ballet slipper pinks, but across the pond we’re seeing pops of an autumnal palette: apple jam reds, golds, oranges, bright bumblebee yellows and bottle greens. All skins have some sensitivity, like red patches, itchiness and inflammation. Sensitive skin, however, has very clear signs to help you recognize it. These are excessive skin irritation, rash, itching, acne, allergies to certain products and swelling; all quite painful and uncomfortable. Other skin conditions like eczema, rosacea, flakiness and dryness are regarded by some experts as symptoms of sensitive skin. Each product in the Cindy Crawford Skincare range has at least seven active ingredients that help flatten the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, whilst giving your complexion a warm glow of health and vitality. What’s remarkable is that all this is possible in just four weeks of use. Thus, it is incorrect to categorize McLuhan as either a technophile or a technophobe, but I prefer to call him a “Media Ecologist, as his critics often try to do. McLuhan is more interested in exploring the implications of our technological extensions than in classifying them as inherently good†or bad.†And McLuhan’s preview of the effects and affects of technological and its cultural artifacts, seems to be headed for its take over from human beings and various cultures as we know them, heretofore.
The 58-year-old Mr. Moosa is a rarity these days—someone of Indian descent involved in South African soccer. When he broke onto the scene in the early 1970s, Mr. Moosa played in a separate league for “coloreds” and Indians. Because of his ball-handling skills and light complexion, he was recruited to join a white team. After his first game, though, league administrators took a closer look at the person playing under the name Arthur Williams. They expelled him. For us to recognize ourselves, is to take some serious lessons from the short histories, dance and music videos with the cultural dress in full display to be of one people, Us. We are not tribes nor have we ever been tribes, but we were indoctrinated by Apartheid to think and refer to ourselves as tribes-we helped the regime ‘disappear’ ourselves, nation and culture by using the jargon from the Master in talking and referring to ourselves and our culture in those demeaning and dehumanizing terms without us being aware what we are really doing to ourselves. One cannot listen to the cultural musical videos, the short history and observe the cultural performances with the jaundiced eye of our former oppressor and detractors. Still, a ray of hope emerged with the stabilization of the Brazilian currency and the rapid decline of inflation in the mid-1990s. Estimates suggest that some nineteen million Brazilians moved from the working poor to the lower middle class. For the first time these people had money to spend on consumer goods; those who remained poor also benefitted from stable prices and were better able to afford staples such as meat, chicken, eggs, and beans. It is these traditions that African chroniclers have to critique, and if a need arises, work had on improving them so that they square up neatly with contemporary challenges that are facing African people globally, and south Africa in particular. Understanding our own indigenous socialization practices will enable and help us to have a clarity of purpose and a better vision to move forward into the future as a united African Family. Traditionally, varied rituals address every occasion in African traditional life. The rituals provide individuals with an opportunity to stand before the community for naming ceremonies, enstoolment ceremonies, initiation rites, harvest festivals and other times to link and collectively give thanks to god, the ancestors, and nature. These rituals, customs and traditions, and the purposes for them, are common in Africa and the Diaspora. They provide an opportunity to promote community unity, to outline purpose and expectations, to reinforce the positive aspects of the culture, and to acknowledge the power of the Creator-as envisioned and conceived by the African people.
