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...e to introduce the first issue of the e-Noncommercial magazine "Macedonian treasury." The magazine will primarily be used for topics of Macedonian history, but only one that this is our soil occurred long ago in the past , but one that by Macedonian gatherings, celebrations and honor continues to exist to this day. It will be a separate facility for the Macedonian cu...

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...t—much, much deeper! This didactic novel reveals the truths about Asian culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones — and open a hidden world of long-guarded secrets. http://ansonchi.webng.com...

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...culture, which will shock you to the marrow of your bones and open a hidden world of long-guarded — secrets. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Anson Chi, born and r... ... king it's still not the top. How many kings have fallen throughout — — the history of human civilization? Last I checked, kings and queens of our cu... ...ld honestly care less about a big house, a nice car or all the money in the world. All I really want from my parents is a hug. 3 I got up this morni... ...'s not just with my family. It's pervasive with Asian families all over the world. So there's really no difference between an Asian parent in America... ...ligatory fee no exceptions or you'll lose — face! No wonder China leads the world in paper production invitations get sent out like — hotcakes! And ... ...e? Dogs even get their own drinking fountains. I wonder what people in third world countries would say about this. Right as I was about to leave the ... ...ers, domineering and controlling, and their actions pervasive throughout the history of Korean culture. Korean men have furious tempers. If you don't... ...tball player; every person in China claims that he's the best center in the history of the NBA, yet he's never won a NBA championship, let alone win... ... and ” grandparents are rather silent when it comes to sharing their family history and background. It's the same way with Gabriel. He doesn't know ...

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...om-de-plume), a Famine survivor who immigrated to the United States after World War II, began this book in 1953, and completed it in 1983. He descri...

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...Even if he is a very popular character, still not many people know his original history! Nowadays there are so much exaggerated stories and wrong information about him, that it is often confusion in “who was he really?”. This happens because there are rarely references to his real life and historical fac...

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...The subject of “Dracula” is one of the most fascinating and interesting in the world being always presented as a fictional character that during the day lives a normal life, while in the midnight transfigures in a cruel vampire, attacking people, sucking their blood and transfiguring them to their turn,...

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...DISCLAIMER...............................................ii PREFACE....................................................vi HISTORY, CULTURE, AND CHANGE: FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICTS AND WARS......1 RELIGION-A BANNER FOR TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CONFLICT............................19 NATIONAL FRAGMENTATION, ETHNICITY, AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER...............

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... community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surprising parallels between the worldviews of peoples of Thailand and Finland, the past and future of local cultures. Matti Sarmela started collecting material on Northern Thailand in 1972. Based on a longitudinal field study, he wrote his description of t...

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...rmela LAWS OF DESTINY NEVER DISAPPEAR Culture of Thailand in the postlocal world Helsinki 2005 Ban Dong 1985 ... ... Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World ... ...a taught us Pictures 54-93 Supernatural environment The invisible world 94 Supernatural guardians of the environment 94 * Phii and souls ... ...f the kinship group 96 * Supernatural forces in nature 98 Between two worlds 99 Village sorcerers 99 * Mediums of the deceased 101 Strata of ... ...ic wedding format .............................. II. 58 12. Strata of world views ............................. III. 105 Foreword Tracing mo... ... govern the former way of life remains in the new culture. In the cultural history of man, great technological structural changes may be discerned, wh... ... localization of storytelling - moralistic narratives local heroes - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - ... ...nd entertainment - consumer culture - national heroes and idols - national history C. Postlocal culture Global environment - urban technonature - glo... ...esentations of world culture - transnational heroes, world leaders - world history The structural change from locality to overlocality has affected al...