December 2011
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od,
torayot:
kavitiya:
anonymous asked:
is a white person eating Chinese/Indian/Thai food cultural appropriation? Serious question.
i think there are a lot of problems with the way food from non-white places / cultures is described in these all-encompassing generalized terms, when it’s often a lot more complicated. i think that all-encompassing terms (“chinese food,” “indian food,” “mexican...
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Why Praising Effort is Better than Praising... →
samclifford:
suuugoi:
brainscience:
“In her own research, Dweck has shown that these mindsets have important practical implications. Her most famous study, conducted in twelve different New York City schools along with Claudia Mueller, involved giving more than 400 fifth graders a relatively easy test consisting of nonverbal puzzles. After the children finished the test, the researchers told...
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Aboriginal school plan fails//Adele Horin//The Age →
ourcatastrophe:
A FEDERAL government program that stopped welfare payments to Aboriginal parents whose children missed too much school has failed to produce sustained improvement in school attendance.
omg no way
my fave is this bit:
The federal government has a bill pending to introduce a third version, to begin in mid-2012, that gives parents more help before benefits are...
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NYC Health Department Cracking Down On Kimchi →
jhameia:
soliloquize:
Health inspectors are putting the kibosh on kimchi, the fermented cabbage dish that’s a staple of Korean cuisine, because they “don’t understand what it is,” say many Korean restaurant owners. The gist of the issue is that kimchi is usually left at room temperature, meaning it’s above the DOH’s 41-degree temperature requirement for cold foods. Inspectors have been...
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Hua Mulan!
jhameia:
fuckyeahchinesemyths:
It’s really hard to write about Mulan ‘cause everyone thinks she looks like this:
But in reality, she was a lot more bad-ass, so a more accurate depiction of her looks like this:
In fact, there are like, so many versions of this story ‘cause it was told first, then written and re-written till no one knows about the facts, so in a way, she’s kind of a myth....
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“I don’t know about you but when someone first mentions an adaptation, I have,...”
– Shaun Tan
In conversation: Neil Gaiman talks to Shaun Tan | Books | The Guardian
(via toujoursgai)
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The great debate that no one's talking about →
leonineantiheroine:
Great article on the War on Drugs in Australia.
“…the war on drugs seemed waiting for me: deaths, addiction, corruption and failed attempts to bring calm and good sense to a deeply difficult issue. I’d reported it for a decade.
1994 Though E is for Ecstasy is on sale around the world, the book is banned in Australia. Why? Because new censorship codes are designed to pursue...
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Pesta Seks @ Kakak Killjoy! "Romance Novels" →
jhameia:
I would have used “Buku Romen” but was told it had a different connotation. Either way, pop on over to tell us all what you learned from romance novels!
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November 2011
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Works cited
shitmystudentswrite:
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
i hope this is true
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