Our vocabulary visibly expands, so should our ability to embrace change and transformation! 30 terms and notions that you (may) have heard of, or trends which you are already experiencing.Continue reading
Tag Archives: Diversity
The African Wisdom of Togetherness
25 May: Africa Day
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African ProverbContinue reading
Around the World on Fridays (“M” | Part 1)
“Peace begins with a smile.” Mother Teresa
Today: Macedonia | Madagascar | Malawi | Malaysia | Maldives | Mali | Malta | Marshall Islands | Mauritania | Mauritius
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Around the World on Fridays (“L”)
“We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviors, beliefs, rituals.” Randa Abdel-Fattah
Today: Laos | Latvia | Lebanon | Lesotho | Liberia | Libya | Liechtenstein | Lithuania | Luxembourg
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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY | “Afghan Girl” | Respect, Steve McCurry!
Cover Photography: Steve McCurry and the “Afghan Girl” | Photo © Bente Haarstad Photography
June 1985: The image of a young Afghan woman with intense green eyes in a red headscarf makes the cover of the National Geographic Magazine. The portrait was taken in 1984 by the amazing photojournalist and visual storyteller, Steve McCurry. Compared with Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting of Mona Lisa, the portrait has been called “the First World’s Third World Mona Lisa” and it became a symbol of refugee girl / woman in a distant camp.Continue reading
Around the World on Fridays (“K”)
“Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other ‘isms’ grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.” Roger Ebert
Today: Kazakhstan | Kenya | Kiribati | Kosovo | Kuwait | Kyrgyzstan
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Things we did differently in 2016 & Resolutions for 2017
As 2016 approaches its end, I look back over the past twelve months (as we did before in 2015 and 2014) and what I see is that we did things differently this year!Continue reading
Around the World on Fridays (“J”)
“Life is one big road with lots of signs. So, when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” Bob Marley
Today: Jamaica | Japan | Jordan
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Around the World on Fridays (“I”)
In loving memory of Leonard Cohen (21.09.1934 – 07.11.2016). R.I.P.
“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen
Today: Iceland | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Ireland | Israel | Italy
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Around the World on Fridays (“H”)
“More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.” Alexander Chase
Today: Haiti | Honduras | Hungary
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