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Lawmakers defiantly chewed coca in Peru's Congress on Thursday while criticizing a U.N. recommendation to criminalize traditional uses of the plant ( Read more... )

So many people from other countries often criticize that the United States has no roots or culture as a result of being a mesh of people from multiple other countries and cultures. Someone even said that we have no words that are only used in the United States. The person saying this was a Hispanic person from Mexico who mentioned that several ( Read more... )

By Perminder Khatkar BBC Asian Network ( Read more... )

1. What does it mean to speak of the economy as both local and global?  How are ideas about the local and global sufficient and insufficient to think of the contemporary world economy?  How do ideas about culture affect the economy?  Consider these questions in relation to - at minimum - Lisa Rofel’s Other Modernities, James Ferguson’s Expectations ( Read more... )

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A high school track star has been disqualified from a meet because officials said the custom-made outfit she wears to conform to her Muslim faith violated competition rules ( Read more... )

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