...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go... ...asting within the brevity of a human's lifespan); and historians of recorded cultures thread together implication, meaning, and motive from a few tang... ...ved that in a world of nonsense spoken by barbarians little outside of human culture had a positive worth except for friendship, and if he needed to l... ... of Java ﾁN each with its own provincial language; the provincial languages, Javanese, and Indonesian all spoken in Java; those calls to prayer from d...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

...- tive Indonesian Ethnic divisions: majority of Malay stock comprising 45.0% Javanese, 14.0% Sundan- ese, 7.5% Madurese, 7.5% coastal Malays, 26.0% ot... ...eading foreign languages; local dialects, the most widely spoken of which is Javanese Infant mortality rate: 95/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: 54 Liter... ...uage: French; Melanesian-Polynesian dialects Labor force: 50,469 (1980 est); Javanese and Tonkinese laborers were imported for plantations and mines i... ...force: 1.66 million (1980); 732,806 (1980) in salaried employment; 54% agri- culture, 25% government, 9% industry and commerce, 8% services Government... ...sions: 37.0% Hindustani (East Indian), 31.0% Creole (black and mixed), 15.3% Javanese, 10.3% Bush black, 2.6% Amerindian, 1.7% Chinese, 1.0% Europe- a... ...ca among others; also Hindi Suriname Hindustani (a variant of Bhoqpuri), and Javanese Infant mortality rate: 23/1,000 (1984) Life expectancy: men 64.8... ...men 59.5, women 65.1 Literacy: 82% Labor force: 26 million (1984); 73% agri- culture, 11% industry and commerce, 10% services, 6% government; 8% unemp... ...n 53.3, women 56.8 Literacy: 45-55% Labor force: 1,985,000 (1985); 78% agri- culture; 18% mining, manufacturing, construction; 4% transport and servic...