I try to connect to other cultures through food

I hope you keep an open mind not just about other cultures’ foods but about the people as well. We are all human.
https://spokenhonestlee.com/2020/07/05/traveling-while-hungry

The continuing evolution of truth continually reinterprets cultural realities

Keywords: ASCENSION, THE ORACLE AT DELPHI, truth

To serve the fear-based, superstitious consultants, the Oracle was presented as a spectacle, with the trance-induced Pythia uttering unintelligible babble, and the scribe interpreting it through cryptic poetry. Also, the oracles were tied to prophecy, a linear construct that negates the truth that everything in the Universe exists in an ever-shifting field of potentiality with multiple timelines and outcomes.
https://answersfromtheoracle.com/2020/06/18/the-delphic-oracle-the-evolution-of-truth

All three of us are Vietnamese American, and we are proud to represent our own culture

Keywords: american, APAHM, blog, college, culture, family, vietnamese

Despite having the same ethnicity, we each grew up with different backgrounds and values. Here is what each of us have to say!
https://leizythoughts.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/growing-up-vietnamese-american

While greetings (such as shaking hands) are typically small gestures, they can carry a lot of weight

Keywords: Networking

When someone makes an overture, and you choose to reject that offer, you’re violating social norms, says Andy Molinsky, a professor at Brandeis and the author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process. “Transgressions of professional norms like these can feel awkward because your actions break the routine and script of how you tend to express warm greeting,” he says. Also, it’s a “micro-refusal,” which can be uncomfortable and risky. You may worry that you’re making a bad impression or sending an unfriendly message. This can be even more challenging in cultures where there is high-power distance and people are expected to defer to the higher status person as to how they prefer to greet. This may result in an awkward dance where you try to figure out what you both feel comfortable with — a fist bump? Touching elbows? Feet? Just a wave or a bow? — and who should follow whose lead.

https://hbr.org/2020/03/how-to-avoid-shaking-hands

Upanishads and the Cure for Loneliness

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Ashwini Mokashi

By Ashwini Mokashi

Introduction

Loneliness is a major problem in the current times. This article tries to address the issue of loneliness and the cure for it from the ancient wisdom of Hindu Philosophy. We will take three principles to address this issue from the Indian philosophical texts of the Upanishads and will also rely on the mainstream teachings of the Upanishads, mainly their insistence of the practice of meditation.

Upanishads are India’s great heritage. The twelve main Upanishads were composed before the common era and were passed on through the oral tradition. The genesis of the Hindu religion and Buddhism is found in the Upanishads. There is neither religious nor social rift implied in these texts, as they preceded any religion.

Many scholars have written about the Upanishads. One such great name was Prof. R.D. Ranade. His book ‘A Constructive Survey of the Upanishadic Philosophy’ was published in English…

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