All Entries in the "Cultural" Category
Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA
The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]
African Native Americans
An important group of men and women has been left with no box to check in the 2010 Census: Native Americans with African origins. The 2010 Census provides us with boxes to check for gender – male, female, other questions, and race. Question #8 asks “Is the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?” and offers 4 boxes of [...]
Celebrate Haiti’s significant contribution to our world, as you give.
In the midst of an earlier crisis, Haitian author Edwidge Danticat reminds us of the contributions of Haiti’s vibrant culture and people. This reading offers a timely message for today — as the nation struggles in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
Respectful Aging LGBT Services
Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation:
Use the client’s terms: Reflecting [...]
How To Turn Your Contacts Into Contracts!
Be persistent. Keep knocking on the door. There are a lot of gate-keepers. Never give up! Know the culture of the company you want to work with. Go online, speak to employees, ask what the core values are to be prepared to show your expertise in ways that it will be readily received.
Positively Healthier – Something to Think About
One of the ironies of the hunger in the United States, unlike some other countries, there is no shortage of food, just an abundance of waste. Good food (our interpretation) is overpriced, food that is said to be not good for us, foods loaded with salts, sugar and fats, are under priced. So an inquisitive person might extrapolate from all of this, let’s get healthier/nourishing food to the people who need it
What is an American?
On headlines proclaims that Keflezighi won the marathon for his “adopted country” which suggest (unintentionally) that maybe he is an American of convince, like a carpetbagger.
Create Your Tribe & Change the World
Seth Godin speaks at TED on changing the world. If there’s a challenge you think needs fixing, take the time to view this video. He outlines a perspective that makes sense in this techie world we live in. It makes sense in the human dynamic of changing the world to be a better place. And [...]
Simmons’ Post – Def Comedy it’s Not.
So my question to you is how do we go about changing the conversation to one that proclaims there is an abundance of love and caring in the world and we need not wait for the worst to happen before we honor and respect each other
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness – Who Owns Cultural Identity?
“The film raises unsettling questions, asking who has the authority to define a culture, especially if people from that culture are denied the opportunity to engage in the scholarly discourse of defining themselves.
