Tag: culture
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Meet Daniela.
With a grade point average of 6.7, she is North Miami Senior High School’s valedictorian. Her older brother served in the U.S. Army for two years, including a tour in Afghanistan. Then he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. He served this country before it was his country. Daniela wants to be a heart…
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Spain’s Blurred Cultural Divides (or how Newt Gingrich can’t even get xenophobia right)
Newt Gingrich states, “The proposed “Cordoba House” overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks – is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House”…
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Random Cultural Observations
Some things I’ve noticed in my first month or so in Spain: I didn’t realize how much of a fixed routine Americans seem to require. Everyone seems to talk about how Spaniards are good about mixing work with leisure, but I didn’t realize how subconscious it all would be. I don’t notice it so much…
Zeke Weeks 