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orion_boreas

Fourth of July post

Jul 04, 2009 19:22

Today it rained all day. We went to the SWSEEL Fourth of July picnic anyway. There were a lot of professors and their families there, and about half the rest of the people there seemed to be students. Lemon Lake was beautiful, even in the rain. Roman Zlotin, who gave a lecture on Thursday night about the Aral Sea disaster, wasn't there, but our ( Read more... )

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On a somewhat related note lordgw2314 July 5 2009, 10:18:09 UTC

Well-put. I know a little about the Uyghurs (from my other friend who did the program), but admittedly not much. I'm reading a book now called "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" about the Hmong. The book is ostensibly about the problem of providing standard western medical care to people with vastly different cultural backgrounds, but it as much a cultural study of the Hmong as it is an invective against current practices (well, current in the mid-eighties to early nineties). I don't know if you're familiar with the Hmong or not, or, but their story seems to resemble that of the Uyghurs ( ... )