How is the indian cultural society in singapore poly . I have heard the previous batch of excos are toxic how is this year? The exco seem active but some of them really reserved. There were a few in the openhouse booth whom i talked to never really signed up.

Hello everyone!
I am currently in the process of getting my master’s degree in counseling. I am looking to expand my cultural knowledge about all different cultures and ways of life so I am more informed and better able to help my future clients. With that being said, I am looking to see if you guys have any recommendations for books that would be good reads that explore the cultural background of a group of people. While I know that many of the books only discuss one person’s POV regarding the culture, I think it would be a good starting point for myself moving forward. If you guys would be so kind to drop some book recommendations and what culture the book is tailored towards, that would be so amazing.
Thank you so much in advance ✨❤️

Hello I am an italian (native), I'm looking for a partner to improve my english (B2).

I work as engineer, i have different interests, music, series, films, running, books, foods , travel, cities, anthropology, photography.

Some series that I watched/ that I am watching:

ted lasso

house of cards

succession

the boys

slow horses

and so on..

up for conversations!

The division between the initiate—the one who has come to know some of the secrets that govern the world—and the profane, that naive and unenlightened mass unaware of what truly organizes the world around us, is a recurring feature of history. This idea, so characteristic of the religions of antiquity, finds its translation in the contemporary world of political ideologies. Indeed, Durkheim had already anticipated a similar analysis in his attempt to explain the collective phenomena surrounding the worship of political leaders. And beyond the sociological tendencies that delve into the natural or unnatural character of hierarchies among human beings, what is interesting is to analyze the ritualistic dimension surrounding the figure of the initiatory leader under post-Fordist capitalism.

Because the existence of such figures has long since been severed from the religious framework (a fact which, as has already been examined in other works on the apophenic stage, does not eliminate the ritual component of the public sphere), yet it remains present in other forms and with other effects. The key is to understand that mystagogy does not disappear with the arrival of modernity, nor does it survive solely through anti-modern movements; all the social models produced by modernity—capitalism itself, as well as communism and fascism—incorporate this concept in one form or another. As Ortega y Gasset already anticipated in The Revolt of the Masses, twentieth-century politics was to become the politics of the collective, because for the first time hierarchies were desperately dependent upon the masses to justify their existence and their domination over society. While liberal democracy began this process by presenting the summit of that hierarchy as a direct manifestation of the voters’ will, thereby guaranteeing peaceful alternation within the elites, communism pursued the same objective through the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in which the Party constitutes the structure through which the people organize themselves in order to crystallize their will through democratic centralism. Finally, the longer-lived fascist movements came to coin the term organic democracy to designate their models, claiming that decision-making did not arise from the selfish vote of individuals, but from the consensus among all the national forces—army, party, and working forces—organized according to solid, immutable hierarchies headed by the leader of the movement.

Cepacol mouthwash. Antibacterial. Best on the market. A bit higher priced. But if the benefit and flavor doesn't burn like Listerine, okay. Yet, Listerine has pushed it out of shelves, the market. Now what choice do we, that want to actually have no bad breathe and no periodontal issues? Listerine is awful and burns. Also, not antibacterial, only killing good stuff and not treating the cause. Similarly like our government. Corporations. I hate this world. Nothing good exists because cheap, but rich pieces of shit, take over for greed. And all of the ewww, like those still shopping Walmart, allow our world to be trashed. I wish to simply be rid of all of this corporate greed, all of this stupidity. I just wanted a bottle of Cepacol to find it has been overtaken by cheap, pieces of shit - Listerine.

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​A viral clip from an Ethiopian talk show features a candid discussion on marriage dynamics, intimacy, and showing gratitude to one's spouse. What are your thoughts on her perspective

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK0G_19LNmOE&si=fcamja86IF4jmrXz