Bhutan Cultural Atlas. Bhutan: 'This Is the Last Authentic Place on Earth' I have a promise to break. Like any self-respecting writer visiting Bhutan, I solemnly swore on a stack of travelogues to avoid clichd references to Shangri-la, the mountain paradise of James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon. So sue me: Bhutan, a nation of 700,000 souls in the lap of the Himalayas, is the closest thing to Shangri-la I’ve ever seen. In a week of traveling through Bhutan, my wife and I have trekked up 10,200 ft. to an ancient Buddhist temple complex perched on the side of a mountain; we’ve shot arrows from a bamboo bow on the lawns of a monastery before an audience of novice monks (they giggled as I missed the target every time); we’ve had a bath in a tub heated by red-hot stones and infused with mysteriously reinvigorating herbs; and we’ve shared dinner with a reincarnated lama.
And it hasn’t once felt as if we’re in some Himalayan equivalent of Colonial Williamsburg. (PHOTOS: Travels Through Bhutan) LIST: Top 10 Glamorous Camping Destinations.
Countries maintaining diversity. Catalan region. Cultural Survival | Partnering with Indigenous Peoples to Defend their Lands, Languages, and Cultures. Cultural Survival Quarterly. Threatened cultures. Threats to single elements of culture. Mali music under threat. Syria. Mongolians in china. Tibet. Threats to indigenous cultures. Inuit. Aborigine's. Forest people. Russian indigenous people. Africa: Celebrating Africa's Rich Culture. THE revival of the Olufuko ceremony is a step in the right direction because many African cultures are under threat from customs and traditions that are not suitable for Africans.
African traditions that instilled discipline among the youth are under constant threat. And the irony is this threat is from within. Many of us because of our gullibility have forsaken time-tested African traditions and embraced cultures that were imposed on us. From the moment we are born, many of us Africans try to live comfortably in a modern westernized world yet struggle to hold onto our traditions shaping us as a proud people. Globalisation has seen more and more Africans swallow hook, line and sinker Western or rather white customs at the expense of their own traditions and customs. In worst-case scenarios some people discourage their children from speaking their languages - all in the name of civilisation. A history of television, the technology that seduced the world – and me | Television & radio | The Observer. Like most people my age – 51 – my childhood was in black and white.
That's because my memory of childhood is in black and white, and that's because television in the 1960s (and most photography) was black and white. Bill and Ben, the Beatles, the Biafran war, Blue Peter, they were all black and white, and their images form the monochrome memories of my early years. That's one of the extraordinary aspects of television – its ability to trump reality. If seeing is believing, then there's always a troubling doubt until you've seen it on television. A mass medium delivered to almost every household, it's the communal confirmation of experience. On 30 September it will be 84 years since the world's first-ever television transmission. The images were broadcast by the BBC and viewed by a small group of invited guests on a screen about half the size of the average smartphone in the inventor John Logie Baird's Covent Garden studio. Like all the best comic lines, it contains a profound truth.
World Cultures. Homogenous v diversity.