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20 Cultural Do’s and Taboos: Manners Around the World

by Janine Boylan on November 11, 2013

greeting manners and social graces: cultural do's and taboos

Having culturally-appropriate manners can make all the difference!
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A Guide to Social Graces

Around the world, different cultures have different ideas about how to act in public. Here are 20 things to know to avoid embarrassing “Oh, I see” moments.  Read more...

 

Crossing Cultures/Cultural Do's & Taboos/Worldwide Sites

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Nov

Culture Smart: Sew Me a Story

by Sheron Long on November 10, 2013

Story quilt by Harriet Powers, showing African American artistic traditions and the influence of African heritage on quilts created by slaves

Story quilt created in 1898 by African American quilter Harriet Powers

The Quilt Designs of Harriet Powers

Harriet Powers (1837–1910) never learned to read or write, yet her story quilts left a significant record of life and events in the American south of the 19th Century.  Read more...

 

Cultural Heritage & Traditions/Literary World/The World's Art & Design/USA

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Nov

Aha Moment Maker: A Smashing Wedding Cake

by Your friends at OIC on November 9, 2013

Baker holding a wedding cake, illustrating the tradition

LONDON, 1840—The royal wedding of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert featured an elaborate, multi-tiered wedding cake, measuring almost nine feet in circumference. The pure white sugar frosting, that became known as “royal icing,” was not only a symbol of purity, but of status as well, since refined sugar at that time was a luxury item.

The entire event set the style of the modern wedding. And wedding cake design has gone on from there to become an art form in itself.  Read more...

 

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