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I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
MOTORCYLES AND OBESITY Or China’s Contribution to the Obesity in Developing Countries, in this case Colombia It was in Leticia, a small delightful town along the Amazon, I first heard…
Refugee Situation in Europe and the chance to cleanse our minds about FEAR of the OTHER Unprecedented numbers of people seeking refuge from war torn nations such as Syria, Iraq…
LIFE OF LONGING, LIVED IN THE MOMENT AND WITH SPECIAL AFFECTIONS I like this sensation. What part of the brain is stimulated or excited? AA Flight to BOG. Seat 5H…
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
A PLEA FOR UNIVERSALISATION RATHER THAN GLOBALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND TALENT BBC had an article about Access and Attainment of Education in Developing countries. Every one realizes that access to…
At a personal level; Friendships so deep that it is like a tattoo in your heart. Intellectual: discourses with a human face. society at the street level Food Burritos de…
ONE WEEK IN THE USA: A TRAVELOGUE This is a not an ordinary travelogue. I have just spent one week in the USA. I flew in from London on American…
Well known French Ethnologist was asked about Identity and this was one of his answers: Actualmente predominan en la vida social las tendencias provenientes de la defensa del multiculturalismo, posturas…
SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RESEARCH IN HEALTH, ILLNESS AND DISEASE You have to tip your hats off to molecular scientists who concentrate on a minute aspect of metabolism. But it…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MUSLIMS IN CUBA, WELCOME TO FIDEL MOHAMMED FROM PROF HONORARY TURKISH PRESIDENT If Barack Obama ever said that it was not Columbus…