Ethiopia has seen human habitation for longer than almost anywhere else in the world, possibly being the location where humans evolved. Evidence of Naqadan contacts include obsidian from Ethiopia. The first records of Ethiopia proper come from Egyptian traders from about 3000 BC, who refer to lands south of Nubia or Cush as Punt and…
Category: Culture
Amish Country Stores of Northern Indiana Offer a Unique View on Life
A lot of citizens do not know a lot about the Amish, and are slightly ignorant when it comes to learning something new about a culture that is different from their own. If you were to take a trip throughout Northwest Indiana though, you would observe that the Amish communities are a regular part of…
Who Was The Mysterious Queen Nefertiti?
In 1924, a bust of a beautiful woman was put on display at the Egyptian Museum in Berlin. The bust depicts a woman with a long, slender neck and possessed of great beauty. In fact her name, “Nefertiti,” means the “beautiful one has come.” Despite her vast beauty and the rise of her legend in…
Radical Islam Threatened by Hollywood
Not long ago, I ran across an article on the web—an Associated Press release—that included the following passage (quoted verbatim): Elsewhere in the northwest, a car bomb exploded close to a movie theater in the city of Peshawar [in Pakistan], killing at least six people and wounding 80 others, witnesses and police officer Saleem Khan…
Why we need women
Women are more important than we think, so let’s just stop for right now and think how much we need our women. Women love us, nurture us, women are our friends and lovers. We need to appreciate them more and more and never take a woman for granted. Women are raising children, what can be…
Filipino Customs explained
Be prepared to wait The Filipinos are a very thoughtful and laid back people. These are both things to aspire to, and are part of the reason many Westerners choose to live in the Philippines, but if you’re not the most patient person in the world, then this might be frustrating for you at first….
Giving Our Best in the Indian Tradition: A Double Blessing
In the Indian tradition way it is customary to welcome a guest into our home with kindness and generosity by offering the best that we have. In some homes there may not be much – a little coffee, some fry bread — but whatever we have we offer it to our guests in a good…
A Westerner’s guide to Filipino Culture
Greetings First impressions are very important in Filipino culture, and this impression is usually made upon first meeting a person. A simple smile, a gentle wave, or a cheery ‘Hi’ or ‘Hello’ is all that’s required. Keep it short, sweet, and friendly, or they may think you are hitting on them. Many locals expect tourists…
Feng Shui- to be or not to be?
Feng Shui isn’t the a magic wand with a ‘cure all’ aura. It isn’t even associated with a religion. Yet it lures Hong Kongers into following it. It’s inscrutable power has its origins way back to 6000 years in ancient Chinese art and science. It is vigilance, combination of math, science, geology, and intuition, striking…
The Rainbow Nation has Yet to be Born
My first few weeks in south Africa to publicize my children’s book were spent in a state of extreme culture shock. Nothing was as I had been led to believe – not even the weather. It was winter in Andalucia, Spain when I left for what was supposed to be mid-summer in South Africa. The…