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  10/10/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

My wife never got to work on time. In 30 years as a professional, she was always about 10 minutes late. As a teacher, she (Continue Reading)

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What do we know about cultures?

  09/14/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Lance wrote: “Careful…many traditional language teachers dismiss the “culture” in TPRS novels because it’s not packaged like a history survey course. I’m glad your community (Continue Reading)

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Blowing your cultural mnd

  09/02/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I’ve had some ugly encounters on this listserv regarding cultural practices which they condemn based on the cultural and religious prejudices. I offered urls of (Continue Reading)

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What New Orleans brought us

  08/27/2015       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Today the Rachel Maddow show did a piece on Katrina. Like recaps of the Iraq war, you find yourself screaming at the TV, “How can (Continue Reading)

Culture, Politics

Loss of dominance: the key to paranoia

  09/26/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

As I ride down the street listening to the complaints on the radio about attacks on Christianity, I pass church after church; in some neighborhoods, (Continue Reading)

Culture

How a Wise Latina p.o.’d the Senators

  02/25/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Sonia Sotomayor’s autobiography, which I’m just starting, should contain a narrative of her time before the Senate when she made a remark about a “wise (Continue Reading)

Culture

Quotes from American Nations

  01/08/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I took longer to put this up than I meant to, but here are the quotes from American Nations by Colin Woodard…… my comments follow. (Continue Reading)

Culture

Where is the true culture found?

  01/06/2014       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Where does the true culture of a ……….. culture, lie? Or is it of a nation, of a country, of a people, of a language, (Continue Reading)

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Cultural memory

  08/22/2013       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Those of us raised in a Western culture like that of the U.S. have problems understanding why people don’t just turn themselves over to our (Continue Reading)

Culture

Prurient?

  08/08/2013       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I don’t recall if I put this url to a video of little girls doing a traditional dance in West Africa. Here it is. Those (Continue Reading)

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How I Celebrate Holidays

  09/30/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Holidays offer a chance to the teacher to introduce students to an element of the culture they are studying. Most of holiday activities in the (Continue Reading)

Culture

Treme – 3rd season

  09/30/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The season opener was a disappointment as they tried to get too much in, but this episode was great, setting us up for all kids (Continue Reading)

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Laughing at the rich

  09/25/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

An article in the NYT lays out the course of events eroding the Gullah or Geechee culture of this country’s southeast coastline. Descended from slaves, (Continue Reading)

Culture

A cultural vignette

  08/19/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcgyZV7ydmg&feature=relmfu This is another short piece, taken from a movie, showing a number of cultural facets: dancing, music, dress, mating customs, humor, etc. Not knowing (Continue Reading)

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The Frontier Spirit and the Cowboy Mentality

  07/15/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

The history of the U.S. has been presented as The Move West, Westward Ho! Western Expansion, Go West, Young Man! The Frontier Thesis……. all to (Continue Reading)

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Covert and mutually reinforcing behaviors

  02/20/2012       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

When Melville Herskovits embarked on his massive study, The Myth of the Negro Past, to document the fact that much of the behavior of African-Americans (Continue Reading)

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L’Affaire DSK

  05/17/2011       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Here we see a  possible moment of cultural change. The French seem to be beginning to question deeply held values regarding privacy and sexual behavior, (Continue Reading)

Culture

musica arhythmica

  10/06/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A wikipedia article on translating modern terms for modern musical genres caught my eye. Words like rock, rap, blues, jazz, rock and roll, etc. were (Continue Reading)

Culture

Integrating Culture – article in The Language Educator

  10/06/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

I am reading the article on teaching culture in the latest issue of The Language Educator, the popular organ of ACTFL. As I read it, (Continue Reading)

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The Solvent

  07/28/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

A judge has just struck down the controversial components of the notorious Arizona anti-immigration law, SB1070. I heard that in the middle of a discussion (Continue Reading)

Culture

Assimilation

  04/18/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

Last night I went to a wedding. Very, very nice (and very, very expensive). Young couple, about 200 guests. Everyone was very nice, the ceremony (Continue Reading)

Culture

Some culture nuggets

  01/24/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment
Culture

A dip into the culture of the Mexican people

  01/17/2010       Pat Barrett      Add Comment

This was posted by my friend, Brian. It is the sort of cultural exploration I wish I saw more of. Of course we want to (Continue Reading)

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