Navigating the culture of personal space
Learning how to communicate across cultures involves more than just using your voice – non-verbal cues are just as important.
The world in a bottle: perfume through the ages
Fragrance speaks the loudest on a subliminal level,” the writer Marion Bendeth once famously remarked.
Palestinian composer calls audience to action
On April 27, Palestinian composer and musician, Simon Shaheen, stages a performance that connects music and revolution.
Vancouver demystified
As Vancouver approaches its 127th anniversary and tourism season nears, it’s time to re-visit stories of the city’s muddled history.
Vancouver boasts about the highest quality water in the world …but does it deliver?
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It takes two to tango – balancing two careers and a relationship
David and Shannon Simpson were nervous and a little sad to leave good friends behind. But they were also excited to begin a new adventure together.
Time keeping defines world view
Hawaiian-born Reyn Nakamoto, 32, needs to know the time. Living in Pacific Standard Time and working in Japanese Standard Time while still keeping up with Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, the Vancouver-based Japanese-American is one of many global citizens for whom tracking time is especially important.
Día de los muertos strives to survive through young people and art
Mexican-born Amy Celorio Ayala, 23, lived in Vancouver for 10 months. While learning English at a private college, she was able to experience, and even enjoy, Halloween. But when she returned home she noticed that the North American holiday is over-shadowing the importance of Mexico’s Día de los muertos (Day of the Dead).
Africa still viewed along ethnic lines
As the world’s second largest continent, Africa, with its multiplicity of history, peoples and cultures, is still often misunderstood. In one of his dissertations, African historian Paul Tiyambe Zeleza suggests that the interchangeable use of the term “Africa” with “Sub-Saharan Africa” ultimately gives a racialized view of Africa as the “black” continent. In other words, Africa is often viewed along ethnic lines.
South Sudanese Independance one year later
It has been just over one year since the creation of the independent nation of South Sudan. This new country, which chose to separate from Sudan following a referendum supported by well over 90 per cent of the region’s population, held high hopes that legal, economic and religious autonomy would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. Since its inception, both peace and prosperity have been elusive targets.
Diary of a reporter in Burkina Faso
Annick Forest’s fondest memory of her time in Burkina Faso was the occasion she visited Yokuna with a theatre troupe. The journey took her across the countryside and along rustic roads. Fields of cotton, millet, and corn paved the way to the tiny village where the actors, members of REVS+, a Burkinabe AIDS group, were scheduled to perform. She described Yokuna in an interview with The Source as a place where time seemingly stood still. [Lire la suite…]
South Sudan’s Road to Independence, One Man’s Struggle for Freedom
The world’s newest country was formed this month, but very few may have noticed. Republic of South Sudan officially seceded from the rest of Sudan after an majority voted for independence in a referendum earlier this year. [Read more]