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  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Some time back I posted a url of a gospel group of West African women shaking their behinds. That was in response to a very (Continue Reading)

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A good example of conflict in cultural styles

  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGyPo5Mwoq0&feature=related This is a Christian group singing a Christian song. You know how a lot of Christians in the U.S. would view the butt-shaking that (Continue Reading)

Culture

I can’t believe I missed this cultural nugget

  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Nowhere can I find a write-up on this blog about a friend who exhibits cultural dexterity (a term I got from Sheryll Cashin, author of (Continue Reading)

Culture

Tolerance and dance styles

  08/15/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Recently on moretprs, several members voiced disapproval of the dancing of young girls on a video recommended for classroom use. When I pointed out that (Continue Reading)

Culture

Personal verification of effects of poor teaching of history

  07/28/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen sites the U.S. invasion of Bolshevik Russian 1919-20 and how history textbooks do not mention it. Such omissions (Continue Reading)

Culture, Teaching & Learning

Did Roseanne Barr try to go to Starbucks today?

  07/24/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Written the day Starbucks was closed for “sensitivity training”   Roseanne Barr tweeted something gross. Actually, it was a calculated racist slur. Barr became an (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View

Shot at

  03/05/2018       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

With the school shootings offering up gun safety once again for the so-called national dialogue, I am reminded of the time when I was about (Continue Reading)

Culture, Politics

Are Christianity and sexual expression compatible?

  12/31/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I just watched a part of the program Say Yes To The Dress where brides pick their dresses and then their wedding ceremonies and receptions (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View

Another memorial service with a twist

  12/18/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The man was 97 years old, had been in CCC and the military in WW II. He started a business and was the first Black (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture

How Obamacare Changed the Love Lives of Young Adults

  11/24/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This is the title of a summary of research sent me by a friend. Overall, the statistics show that when young people have health insurance, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Pat's World View, View from under the Bus

And yet another memorial service

  07/31/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Contrary to long custom, the services for the deceased at the Pentecostal church my wife was raised in no longer feature a body. In fact, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Personal

What are they afraid of? This.

  05/20/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here you see the combination of music and dancing in huge crowds, dancing with abandon and a lot of sexuality and some fighting, that scares (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

A unique concept with equivalents in various languages

  04/28/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Over the years, I have noticed each language has a word whose closest English equivalent is “compound”. Brian Barabe suggested the more descriptive “assembly area.” (Continue Reading)

Culture, Personal language learning

My drive for synthesis reaches new heights

  04/11/2017       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Friends say I am good at synthesizing disparate elements. I am better at that than at analyzing, but before synthesizing must come analysis. At times, (Continue Reading)

Basics, Culture, Pat's World View, What I'm Reading Now

A petty aside

  03/17/2017       Pat Barrett      8 Comments

Just an aside and a petty one at that: over a year ago I was derided for suggesting that some of our problems in education (Continue Reading)

Culture, Magnum Opus, Pat's World View

Good example of Pentecostal worship style

  10/12/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This video captures the spirit of the Pentecostal worship service I was exposed to. Notice, too, how many Whites in the congregation know how to (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

East is East and West is……… similar?

  07/30/2016       Pat Barrett      1 Comment

Recently I found a passage in a book on Urdu poetry which illustrated an approach to literature which contrasts with the Western approach. I mentioned (Continue Reading)

Culture

Annotating our culture

  07/30/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Annotated literature draws me. I love reading it, esp in another language, where notes accompany the text to explain references. There are those who insist (Continue Reading)

Culture, Uncategorized

National Identity & National Consciousness

  05/07/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My book on Greek diglossia just came and I’ve been reading it. Interestingly, Greek national identity came from religion rather than common descent or language, (Continue Reading)

Culture, Uncategorized

Masked traits, their survival, emergence and absorption

  03/11/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A terminological issue arises whenever we talk about the American culture. What so often happens is that what I call the Norwegian culture gets put (Continue Reading)

African Diaspora, Culture, Music of the African Diaspora

World Views and Perspectives: the origins of the Magnum Opus

  03/10/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My world view is that the past makes up the present and past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. That human beings are (Continue Reading)

Culture, Politics

What is a dominant cultural trait of the U.S.?

  02/24/2016       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

So often I talk about people’s culture. While there are many cultures in the U.S., we can ask if there is a general U.S. culture. (Continue Reading)

Culture

Tar baby

  10/25/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today my grandson and I were discussing what the GOP is going to do with its crazies. He said he had agreed with a lot (Continue Reading)

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