Category: Culture Contact
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Discord : when someone is spreading rumours at the office
Humans live on rumours. That is why celebrity magazines make so much money. Why there is room for all manner of fake information in our societies. Why we spend at least some time discussing what ifs and maybes of not only our own but others’ lives.Evolutionarily, passing on information can be considered a matter of…
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When it’s nobody’s fault (and it can be)
Recently, I discussed a difficult situation with someone; it’s a situation that, sooner or later, represents us all. What happens when something goes wrong, but it’s nobody’s fault?Especially nowadays, when everything we are trying to do is difficult, not only because we are working from home (which can be more difficult… consider only that instead…
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Is Monday causing you the deep blue blues? Coping with changes to coping
Monday blues – who hasn’t heard of it? It’s that anxious, sinking feeling that can last all weekend (starting, in fact, before Friday at times) that meets and greets Monday(s), often before it’s (or they) happened.(Conversely, and because it is Monday, and if you are reading it, you may need a laugh, and also simply…
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The one where I extol the virtues of anthropology
Is anthropology useful? This question usually happens right before a person admits they know next to nothing about the science in question. (Which, I should say, leaves us with a far deeper and more concerning question, to whit – are we in fact unable to consider things we know little about as useful? Is that…
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Diversity, inclusion and going back to normal – what happens if we no longer do online conferencing?
2020, the syrup of nightmares though it may have been, brought with it one very important feature – online everything, including conferencing.The results have varied; for many people, going back to the office will be the main goal of 2021, while others wonder how they have ever lived without it.From the perspective of inclusion and…