A dating app marketing campaign in Germany has raised attention with provocative references to Nazi “ethnic purity” concepts. …the ultimate ethnic-based dating app! …connect with people who share the same values, culture, and language as you! People from your German community who understand your past and want to create a future together with you! People … Continue reading dua.com launches “Ethnic-Based” Purity Dating Campaign in Germany→
I was thinking about Trevor Noah’s interview by Stephen Colbert, where they discussed the psychological affects of a national anthem, and it reminded me of this research on flag waving. “Flags are tricky,” Kemmelmeier says. “If you allude to a collective and say, ‘This is us,’ there’s always somebody that’s not included.” Decades of research … Continue reading Display of a national flag has damaging impact to social cohesion→
In 1889 Mark Twain published his memoirs of life before the Civil War, Life On The Mississippi, in which he mentioned an “itching palm” practice of French-speaking Louisiana that was called “lagniappe“: It is the equivalent of the thirteenth roll in a ‘baker’s dozen.’ It is something thrown in, gratis, for good measure. The custom … Continue reading Origin and Meaning of the Word Lagniappe→
Remember 2016? Remember the outrage from a Daily Beast dossier on the Trump’s egregious plagiarism? Let’s recount. Oh how the times fly. …at least 20 pages of the Trump Institute textbooks were lifted in near-entirety from a book in the “Real Estate Mastery System,” a 1995 series completely unaffiliated with Trump. Lazy incompetence was not … Continue reading Trump Trademark is Unrepentant Plagiarism→