The price is not the value, or: experience of social coldness
Unfortunately is this article only in German: China in the future will be more and more confronted with the experience of economic decline or social coldness. Here is one example of what can happen
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/china-christen-muessen-ihre-treffen-geheim-organisieren-a-865342.html
and in English:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/187917.html
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Sex and moral
Relating to my post on Petraeus and the issue of sex and politics in the US, I want to put it in another way: to have this love affair, Petraeus as well as others who did the same (men or women), proof the fact that moral categories never can win against love and sex in this way.
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was convinced that being rational, man can suppress love and sex by his rational conviction. Here ………………
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It also can be quite funny!!!!!!!
After a raft of critical acclaim for Thuy’s original French version, including a 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award, Ru has now been published in English, translated by the celebrated Sheila Fischman.
In short vignettes that flow back and forth between past and present, Ru tells the story of a young woman forced to leave ……………….
Strange is strange is not strange…..it`s me!
In German we have at least five different aspects of “strange”. Or so to say five different ways of understanding “strange”:
1. a stranger looks strange or behaves strange, in the way that I perhaps never have seen before.
2. not to be familiar with something or someone.
3. stranger in the sense of foreigner, coming i.e. from another country or culture
4. strange can also mean “to be different to oneself”
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I will tell you a little story about a man who as a child, born in Romania, came to Germany at the age of four. In Romania he was brought up in a very old German speaking and German rooted community. So he was used to the German language and the German culture. In those days this German rooted community was addressed as a strange community in Romania, a community of stranger, though they had the Romanian nationality. To bring it to the point: They were Romanians and not Romanians. They were Germans and they were not Germans.
The German government in those days was interested in the reintegration of such German speaking and rooted communities here in Germany. As I was told, German government paid some thousand German Marks for a grown-up person and ……….
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Having posted some information about body psychotherapy tthree days ago I was asked to talk more aout it. So here is more about it. You will find body psychotherapists all over the world. Except in Africa and many parts of Asia. So if you are interested ask the specific organisations which are listed at Wikipedia. Or ask me, I will support you as much as I can. So don`t hesitate. 😉
“Body psychotherapy,[1][2][3] also called body-oriented psychotherapy or somatic psychology, is a branch of psychotherapy[4], with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy……..
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“Die Fremde” or “When we leave”
The film shows very clearly and blunt that at the end it is very difficult to find out who in fact is the stranger, who has to integrate, and what integration really means. To bring it to the point: integration always is a field of inevitable conflicting priorities. And at the end you get the impression that everybody is a stranger.
2010 was the premier of this really embarrassing German movie film. The main issue is to show how important the basic, human right for self-determination, self definition is. This of course includes the human right for women for bodily autonomy.
The film shows that the woman wants to follow her autonomy and to be part of her family. She fights for both. And she experiences how difficult but also how dangerous this fight is. Just by the steady risk of violence.
It is fight up to the desperate experience of complete exhaustion. An experience which catches everybody in the film, everybody in the family. Finally there is no winner. Everybody fades, everybody loses the, everybody finally gets lost in desperation.
The film shows in a melodramatic way, very intensely and directly, that everybody breaks down under the enormous social and special cultural pressure.
Here is the trailer with English subtitles so that you can a first impression.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/5464481/when_we_leave_die_fremde_trailer_with_english_subtitles/
Here is part one of the film. Via the following link you will find the other parts.
Some information on the intercultural issue of the film in German
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fremde_(2010)
Read MoreAbout Body Psychotherapy
“Body-Psychotherapy is a distinct branch of psychotherapy, well within the main body of psychotherapy, which has a long history and a body of literature and knowledge based upon a sound theoretical position.
Body-Psychotherapy involves an explicit theory of mind-body functioning, which………
Body language in Europe
well I wrote a lot about body language and gestures in China or what we think about it.
Here are some information about the other perspective: what it is like to communicate nonverbally in Europe or Northern America. Just have a look and get an impression. Within the next weeks I will write more about this perspective.
http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A427277
http://www.reidsguides.com/t_cm/t_cm_gestures.html
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