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Cultural Map of the World - Including Singapore
Putting the little country on the map.
Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World - including Singapore
Traditional - Secular-Rational Values Vs Survival - Self Expression Values
This is based on the World Value Survey which included Singapore but the relevant info was not depicted in their published values map. I found the Singapore results here.
Singapore:
Traditional/Se-cular-rational Values: -.06
Survival/Self-expression Values: -0.16
This puts it very close to Vietnam on the map.
Swan Lake Overdrive
When the dancer is also an athlete of the highest order
Video: The Morality of Stem Cell Research
How can you not?
Demand for Mud Burgers is up
Keeping bellies full in Haiti
In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.
“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.”
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