Telle est la question que se pose une bonne partie de la société française, toutes origines confondues.
En cette période électorale, ce trait de la société française est porté en argument (dangereux) d’élection. L’ancienne conception de la France (Louis XIV, Napoléon) subit actuellement et “officiellement” une crise identitaire (position internationale en chute libre, nouveaux géants émergeants, chômage). En effet, les valeurs de l’ancien Régime “un roi, une loi, une religion” semblent toujours avoir été d’actualité, même si “liberté, égalité, fraternité” était dernièrement apparu. Read the rest of this entry »
I realize the tone of this blog is sometimes pretty “tough” ; even if it is more about discoveries from a cross-cultural point of view - the vision though is about shaping a better world where every cultures would feel like being home.
Today’s opinion is about religion in the States, and more precisely Darwin and religion. This topic of discussion is, from my point of view something that could be interesting in order to understand USamerican culture.
In order to understand the real position of religion in the USamerican culture, I have decided to feature a link to a USamerican who “takes some critical stances” from it. The idea is not to create a generalization like “all USamericans are Christian extremists”. Some are, some not. The debate here (in this blog) is not about religion, but about cultural specificities (more links in the comments).
“In God we trust” on $ notes, in courts, the president swearing on the Bible, Georges Bush publicly praying… religion in the States (for a European like me who considers it more personal, more private), sounds to be taking a tremendous position in everyday’s life. “I am a believer” is what you frequently hear overthere, and it is not that politically correct to publicly state “I am not a believer”. Well, this is better to know.
Literature (and furthermore the copyleft one:-) is a richful nest of indications concerning collective memory. On our previous article (Black.white. pressreview), one word struck me ; “slavery”.
Hereunder is the preface of “Thoughts on slavery”, a poem by Lewis Stevens (1854). A quite representative piece of work. You can read the entire poem here.
In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment marked the abolition of slavery in the USA (end of the American Civil War) - more about slavery history here. The first black students attended university in the US from the mid 50’s to the early 60’s (Mississippi, Alabama, South) - read this… Read the rest of this entry »
En chacun de nous sommeille un Vasco de Gama, un Mercator, un Captain Cook, un Bougainville, un Christophe Colomb, un appel de la nature qui nous pousse à tout plaquer, s’armer de sa caméra et faire le tour du monde.
Cet inconnu fascine, un peu comme une épreuve initiatique pour accéder à l’âge adulte. Cette expérience peut être très enrichissante,… “peut” car tout dépendra de la manière, de la préparation et de la nature de sa quête. En effet, avec toutes les facilités technologiques actuelles, effectuer un tour du monde n’a plus rien d’extraordinaire ; les itinéraires sont souvent très bien balisés et cadrés d’une industrie touristique bien présente - l’avion faisant le reste. Read the rest of this entry »
Where can you find these “Markets” ? Naming the continent is not enough (even if not so easy ; this could be Las Vegas, Chinatown, Australia,…) - naming the country would be already a great achievement, and the city fantastic (by clicking on these very nice pics, you can get a close-up (and access to the photographer’s album), clues are everywhere…).
1 (pic from crazykillerrabit)
2 (pic from dadou76 bc)
3 (pic from ianpatrickhaines)
4 (pic from Erik++)
Yep, it is possible to find the exact location for each picture, yep !