55 days ago by Pit

Zwarte Piet: Holland’s favorite racist Christmastime tradition. – Slate Magazine. In Holland, Santa Doesn’t Have Elves. He Has Slaves. The racist Christmastime tradition Dutch people have begun fighting about. By Jessica Olien |Posted Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, at 3:25 PM ET As a newcomer to the Neth ...

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86 days ago by lizardyoga

I don’t know why it is that we Brits don’t go much on philosophy: apart from John Stuart Mill (of his own free will) I can’t think of another English philosopher, though the Scots seem to have more of a bent for it than we do: I always think the Scots are more European than us anyway. Ordinary peopl ...

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97 days ago by BT Webmaster

I would like to say “Arigato” to Steve Silver for posting a link to the Japan Sociology blog story on the Little Black Sambo sequel in Japan, “Ufu and Mufu: The Cute Little Twins’ Big ...

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146 days ago by zurui

The topic of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro (758 – 811) and African-American scholars that focus on Asia came up during my interview on Blog Talk Radio (SML 44). Below are some of the references that I ...

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167 days ago by fathertheo

25. Literary Criticism in Cloverdale, Pt. 2 I was confused by the dialect, by new words, a linguistic thing, but the issue went deeper than that. About That Elephant. Uncle Remus was welcomed to my classroom in 1957, but might not be so readily today. 1957 was before the civil rights era, a time whe ...

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175 days ago by Robert Stewart

A scan from Chapter 3 of Venture to South Africa. In an attempt to get Jennifer out of her sulks, Mike and Belinda decide to buy a puppy for her when their ship docks at Las Palmas. on Grand Canary. For five shillings, they buy the little white dog from a hawker, who assures them that the dog is a p ...

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