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We need to address the real cause of mass shootings: social alienation
We need to address the real cause of mass shootings: social alienation...
June 16, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Doubling down on ‘daro’: Admirable alignment in Japanese communication
At first, the UQ mobile commercials, launched in 2016, were simply bewildering. Two large, furry cha...
June 2, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Symbol of the American Dream is drying up, literally
“You need more water,” my next-door neighbor says decisively. We can both see clearly that the grass...
May 19, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Gaijin identity management: Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t
When I was growing up, my family had a much-loved black Labrador retriever named Eric. Eric was inde...
May 5, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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What a power outage taught me about emergency preparedness
When the lights flickered off late on the night before Thanksgiving last November, I didn’t think mu...
April 21, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Jibun: The private self in Japanese discourse
By Kate Elwood / Special to The Japan News [posttime] JST, [postdate] A recent TV commercial fo...
April 7, 2022 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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France stands divided over Napoleon’s legacy
A landmark speech by French President Emmanuel Macron marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bona...
October 7, 2021 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Nice, tight Japan: Implicit rules and their flouting
Recently I was rereading cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand’s 2018 book “Rule Makers, Rule Breake...
October 7, 2021 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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Culture of perfection creates anguish-laden adolescents
Among a handful of friends I have made through tennis, I’ve grown particularly fond of Kelly. She wa...
August 19, 2021 - CULTURAL VIEWPOINTS
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