Tag: Identity

In a world where first impressions are often formed within seconds, the way we present ourselves through clothing has become a powerful means of self-expression. Fashion serves not only as a reflection of personal style but also as a tool for shaping and communicating our identities to the world. Fr...

One of them involves a move away from ascribed toward achieved sources of identity. The idea is rather simple: in traditional societies, people were defined largely by the circumstances that they were born into, or their ascribed characteristics — who your family was, what “station&rdquo...

Toborrow a term from the current zeitgeist, the V&A Museum is my ‘Roman Empire’. A word of appreciation here for the literal ancient Roman Empire’s artefacts housed in the museum including, my favourite, a double coiled gold ring with two cobra heads. Originally crafted as...

According to a recent empirical study, local community products contribute to the growth of agricultural trade and enhance product prices. Nowadays, the Thai GI system has generated market values of more than 51,000 million THB (≈1,423 million USD) per year. Not only does a GI impact positi...

Davai is a platform rooted in India, primarily dedicated to fulfilling B2B pharmaceutical requirements with an evolving vision of expanding reach to meet the needs of individual consumers in the B2C pharmaceutical marketplace. The entire identity is built using the core elements found in the...

I learnt to gaze at the skies when I was very young, thanks to my mother. On warm summer evenings I would sit on her lap and together we would contemplate the night sky. The view was of an open field on which stands the chapel of Holly Mary of Porto Salvo. Story tells that after a shipwreck, a...

In the realm of identity, the Holochain team appreciates the fallacy of individualism, or more precisely the fallacy of considering individualism a dualism (separate, either/or) with collectivism. Individualism and collectivism are a duality (interdependent), and indeed a duality that benefits from ...

Myneighbor was having a stoop sale this morning, and although I have been living next to this woman, her son and husband for the past two years, today was the first day that I reached out and talked with her. She is Japanese, from Japan. Her husband is from Japan. Her son was likely born in the Unit...

My friends used to humorously call me a banana. “Yellow” on the outside and “White” on the inside — and I would laugh. Now I realize that response was my way of coping with the discomfort and dissonance I’ve long struggled with as a “third-culture kid.&rdquo...