Cosmetic Surgery In Asia : Are You In Or Out?
Did you know that there are more Asian women nowadays who approve of cosmetic surgery? Cosmetic surgery has been more and more accepted to almost all people from all walks of life. It is not gender-specific as revealed by the statistics widely available in the internet, books, and other media sources. Moreover, it is gradually [...]
Golden-Child Parenting
In a rehashed film during the mid-1950’s by the great British movie-thriller pioneer Sir Alfred Hitchcock entitled “The Man Who Knew Too Much”, an original song sung by one of its actor, Doris Day, asks a mother, “What will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? Another question posed to a teacher, [...]
Korean Culture
Caring for people coming from different cultures needs a certain understanding of their history and culture. Nursing provides an opportunity to support and reassure patients while under medication. It is better to acquire more knowledge on different cultures so that the patient and the nurse will be able to get along better for faster recovery.
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Ancient Buddhism
Buddhism is a worldwide religion and philosophy of the vast majority of practitioners living in Asia. It is composed of two major schools which is the Mahayana and Theravada. Buddhism is based on the principles and teaching of Gautama Buddha who has lived in ancient India during the fifth century. Art was a form of [...]
Asian Mixing Bowl
My brother and I grew up in a multi-cultural household. Our father is hundred percent Japanese and our mother is half-Filipino, half-Chinese. It was pretty interesting growing up in that kind of household. Japanese, Filipino and Chinese culture are not that different from each other but it is the small differences that make it interesting, [...]
Cut The Cord Baby
It’s every woman’s worst nightmare… Your partner is spending evenings whispering sweet nothings on the phone, leaving you alone on holidays and sneaking in text messages. What do you do when the other women is his life is his mother?
When Anita married Samir, her dreams of marital bliss collapsed right after the wedding when she [...]
Intercultural Marriage - Asia Meets West
What Asian people think when they see a foreigner walking down the street with a baby on his hands and Asian wife? What do they think about a foreign woman walking with an Asian man? Are these two cases comparable? Well, answers for these questions will vary depending on country’s culture, persons’ age answering the [...]
Learning Important Chinese Custom - Asian Culture
Many of the Chinese customs of today have origins dating back hundreds, if not thousands of years. Many proverbs have been passed down from generation to generation such as “civility costs nothing”, or “courtesy demands reciprocity”, and so on. For instance, one of the world’s most famous sayings when giving another a gift is the [...]
The Benefits of Hatha Yoga
The Benefits of Hatha Yoga
The word yoga usually comes off as a hippy and old-fashioned but the 1990s has seen a rebirth of awareness for this fitness regimen due to the interests of celebrities with no less than Madonna herself, the Queen of Pop, swearing by it. Some people who practice body building or do [...]
Women Are Able To Hold Up Half The Sky
“Women are able to hold up half the sky!”—– Mao Tse-Tung praising the outstanding performance of Chinese women in the 1960’s.
For thousands of years, tradition held that Chinese women must “obey the father before marriage, obey the husband in marriage, and obey the son after the husband’s dead”. That women were inferior was universally accepted, [...]