Common Ties That Bind
Exploring common values, living conditions, arts & cultural traditions and practices that cross racial, ethnic, generational, religious, and geographic boundaries; and destinations that offer opportunities to explore and enjoy the diversity and commonalities of the world’s peoples, places, and cultures.
November 5th, 2010
Written by Bharat Mehta in Common Ties That Bind with 3 Comments
We don’t know anything about racism. We’ve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?This realistic thought from the pen of Jane Elliott, an anti-racism activist, makes us ponder how an individual, falling prey to racism feels! Racism is about the hatred of one group or another, including...
October 20th, 2010
Written by Renee Cho in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
Chinese people all over the world celebrated the joyous Mid-Autumn Festival in September, also known as the Moon Festival. The festival occurs during a time of the full moon, and is a time to settle debts, and enjoy the riches of the harvest. The Mid-Autumn Festival, traditionally celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon of the lunar calendar, around the time of the autumn equinox,...
October 15th, 2010
Written by Chris Benguhe in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
The young, purposeful woman sitting next to me in the café busied herself crocheting a new carrying bag.She couldn’t be more than 25, and might be more likely to be reading about accessories in a hip fashion magazine than making them. As she worked the intricate loops with her hook, I was transfixed.“Where did you learn that?” I asked.“From my grandmother when I was five-years-old,” she answered...
October 8th, 2010
Written by Kaleena Thompson in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
These days it seems that everyone is going green and eating organically. According to the Food Marketing Institute, more than half of Americans now buy organic food at least once a month. However, there is plenty of opposition toward the growing organic movement, which has many Americans confused and misinformed. So what is the real story behind organic food?Is there an official definition of...
September 8th, 2010
Written by Jamie Greco in Common Ties That Bind with 0 Comments
Kids and opera; usually they go together – well, like...kids and opera. Yet, every year, Hamilton Wings, an Elgin, Il, based organization, promotes academic and social success through the arts, boasts dozens of happy kids participating in Students Creating Opera to Reinforce Education, (SCORE,) with no pre-teenage angst or parental pressure.
The director of this unique program is Dr. Rise Jones,...
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