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Cross-cultural studies

Joy to The World

by Tim Lomas,

From 216 words expressing well-being, happiness, and pleasure that were collected by Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. Lomas’s paper “Towards a Positive Cross-cultural Lexicography” was…

Polite Brigade

by Noorullah Dawari,

From A Brochure for Comprehending the Cultures of the Coalition Forces, a twenty-eight-page pamphlet published by the Afghan Ministry of Defense and distributed to Afghan troops. Translated from the Dari…

In our time

by Tom Wolfe,

Diagnosing Soviet dissidents

by Walter Reich,

Courage becomes madness, and deviance disease

Of human bondage

by Eric Berne,

What is fat?

by Edward H. Ahrens,

Comparisons

by Harper’s Staff,

Reports

by Leo W.(Leo Williams) Simmons,

The roots of veneration

Flaming youth

by John Thompson,

Witch doctors and psychiatry

by Judith Randal,

How to do business with a Frenchman

by E. Russell Eggers,

12 rules for controlling the spice when cooking up a deal in Paris