New York City is one of the best places to be during Christmas. There’s more to Christmas in this city than the Christmas tree, which is famous around the world, and Rockefeller Center. It is said that Christmas in Big Apple is much more than beautiful – it is timeless. One of the things that […]
Category: Cultures
Cultures Around the World is a collections of well researched articles in slides format related to tradition and culture.
Worst Food in the World
Human beings have an exceptionally strong survival instinct, they say. We are able to make do with strange and unusual foods when it comes to survival. But here is our list of 10 foods that are the worst that can be consumed, and yet are “delicacies” to the local folks. 10. Eascamoles Country: Mexico Escamoles […]
The Dying Art of Hand Writing
“Keyboards have always intimidated me…A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.” When American author, Paul Auster spoke thus of the superiority of the pen to the keyboard, he perhaps did not realize that […]
China to do away with one-child policy
China recently took a major decision, allowing all couples to have two children – a development, which has a close connection with the ageing population in the country. Of the total 1.355 billion population in China, more than 20 per cent is over 55 in age. It is said that by 2050, the number of […]
Controversial writers around the world
Till date in human history there have been lots of authors who have attracted their fair share of controversy because of the opinions that they have expressed through their works or the way in which they have expressed them. These authors have been ostracized by the very society on which they have based their works […]
All you need to know about Halloween
The meaning of Halloween Halloween is also spelt as Hallowe’en. This festival is celebrated primarily in Ireland and Northern Ireland along with the U.S. and Canada. The name of this festival can be regarded as a shorter form of All Hallow’s Evening. The other names of this festival are Allhalloween, All Saint’s Eve, and All […]
Top 10 Favorite Wines
“Wine makes every meal an occasion”, they say. Most people from across the world will agree. Though there are thousands of wines available throughout the world, here is our selection of the top 10 wines consumed across the globe. Sauvignon Blanc Named the UK’s favorite wine this year, the Sauvignon Blanc is a classic wine […]
Tribes Around the World
Many of us may feel that our fast-paced world of increasing globalization, industrialization, and homogenization contributes to our becoming global citizens, where we are equally at home in any part of the world. However, these processes have taken a heavy toll on traditional ways of life around the world, particularly tribal cultures that are trying […]
Gay Laws Around the World
Gay Laws Around the World Broadly, while the LGBT community the world over had been making inroads progressively into the mindsets of nations and their peoples, recent laws not really favoring these sections have been instituted in some countries bringing them once again back to square one. All this, despite the corporates and several countries […]
Easter Eggs Around the World
The practice of decorating Easter eggs is a tradition shared by many cultures around the world, from children using vegetable dye to decorate their eggs, to professional artists creating intricate and elaborate egg designs. Though today, decorating eggs is associated with the Christian holiday of Easter, the tradition extends beyond that, even 60,000 years ago […]