Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, used a term too inappropriate for the public's liking. He used the expression the bogeyman snatched the boob. It's old Persian used by mothers when they stop breastfeeding their children. He has also used other terms that seem unprofessional. Iranians are shocked to discover what their world leader has said to the world.
The anthropologist, Stephen Leonard, is spending a year in Northwest Greenland with the people of the Inuit culture. The Polar Inuit hunts in kayaks, uses harpoons, and travels by dogsleds. There are only 1,000 people in the community, and they eat sea mammals. It will also be a lot colder for him to get used to. It will be a long and difficult year for Dr. Leonard to adjust to this new culture.
Studies have shown that the rates of foreign made films have gone down the past couple of years. The martial arts movies were the most popular, but it's difficult to get people to pay attention to them now. America is the center of the film culture. If the reviews of the movie are good, then it would be shown in the movie theater. The movies are trying new ways to capture an audience.
Sofia Javed tells a story about how difficult it was to drive with her language's comfusing directions. The Urdu language has the same word for go straight and turn right. While the driver kept turning right, the man in the back was trying to tell him to keep going straight. They had to use English to get to their destination. They also have the same word for tomorrow and yesterday, but that is not a main issue because the verb tenses in the sentences are different. Hopefully, this will no longer be a problem for people to tell directions.
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