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AMERICAN FOOD GUIDELINES, BRAZILIAN GUIDE TO BRAZILIAN EATING, MICROBIOME AND WHAT WE SHOULD EAT United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a new set of rules to guide Americans…
It took me forty four hours of travel By car from the Indian Reservation to the airport in Omaha, Nebraska and then a short flight to Chicago. Waited for the…
Gratitude in Fort Cochin I am reminded of the line from the French writer, Marcel Ayme: I, said the man, am a Jew As I walked up to the offices…
I returned to Cochin after an absence of five years, which is very long for me with regard to any country in my world view. I had come primarily to…
Who else do you need in Miami, asked my sister, you have me and my husband and also your good friends M and G and all of us like to…
MULTIPLE NATIONALITIES, DISTINCT IDENTITIES BUT SIMILAR ASPIRATIONS I was at a Shopping Mall near my sister’s house on this sunny but breezy day. At the Apple Store, a young man…
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…
THE GIFT MARCEL MAUSS AND HIS LESSONS FOR CURRENT DAY CUBA Marcel Mauss, considered the Father of Modern Ethnology was the nephew of Emile Durkheim, considered the Father of Modern…
Just twenty four hours ago, I left the crowded, unruly Terminal 2 of the Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana to arrive in the crowded, unruly but more diverse…
MEDICAL CONSULTATION IN THE INDIAN COUNTRY I am proud to be a Physician to some Native American Indian tribes. On this day, this 54 year old Indian came to see…
December 21st, 2014, it would be the night of YALDA, celebrated in most of the Persian Speaking Middle East and Central Asia, also spilling into the Indian Subcontinent. But one…
Today, more than ever, I am proud to say, Soy de Cuba, I am from Vedado! in La Havana. The above collage is from my neighbourhood of Vedado in Havana.…