Culture
Traditions, customs, cultural practices, and insights
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Culture
Japan aligns its entire national calendar with the blooming of cherry blossoms
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Culture
Massive religious floats use hemp sacks to glide over cobblestones with surgical precision
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Culture
France mandates that forty percent of cinema screens must show local films
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Culture
The complex rhythms of flamenco use the same mathematical patterns as African polyrhythms
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Culture
Kyoto limits building heights to match the scale of a 14th-century temple
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Culture
A rolling suitcase vibrates at the same frequency that erodes ancient cobblestones
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Culture
Modernization theory once predicted that all societies would eventually become secular
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Culture
Traditional Japanese actors use larynx modulation to mimic female vocal frequencies
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Culture
The phrase Taco Tuesday was originally a Great Depression marketing ploy to boost sales
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Culture
A traditional Persian holiday table serves as a living chemistry laboratory
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Culture
An indigenous community in India saves 50,000 lives annually by catching snakes
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Culture
A single folk melody has over sixty regional variations across the Korean peninsula
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Culture
An ancient Irish tradition allows women to propose to men every February 29
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The first American First Night festival in 1976 turned New Year's into a community arts celebration
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On Ōmisoka, Japanese families ring temple bells 108 times to banish human desires
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