Cultural universal Puns

Why YSK: Not every place on this planet has the same social or legal norms for quitting your job, buying a car or formating a CV. So make sure to double check with a source in your own language and from your own country. Use common sense, and try to relate what you read in thus sub to expercieas from your life before taking any advice at face value.

In "Darmok", Counselor Troi gives the example that the phrase "Juliet on her balcony" would be meaningless to an alien unfamiliar with the story, but that sort of reference makes it into common parlance very easily.

If I were to refer to something as my Achilles's heel to a Klingon, would I need to provide a summary of the story of Achilles, or would it just get converted to the closest Klingon equivalent for "critical weakness specific to an individual"? If I were to describe a new regulation to a Trill as "draconian and almost Orwellian", would that require explaining the writings of the Athenian lawmaker and the 20th-century author? Would describing the new crew quarters as "spartan" require explaining the reputation of ancient Sparta? Could I describe someone as "quixotic" or "tilting at windmills" without recounting the plot of Don Quixote, or suggest someone "turn the other cheek" without explaining the common misinterpretation of the Sermon on the Mount?

Where does the Universal Translator draw the line between "cultural reference" and "etymology for a common word or idiom"? I presume it could translate "nimrod" into an equivalent insult without needing to explain about the biblical hunter, and later misinterpretation of a sarcastic comment by a cartoon rabbit. But referring to a signature as a "John Hancock" doesn't make much sense without knowing who Hancock was and why he's famous.

Even when built with accessibility in mind, the chance of someone interacting with a space/building is limited, based on the structure's intuitiveness to that person.

Is spatial anxiety truly considered to be a universal concern?
Is it fair to assume that the "Universal" in "Universal Design" is in fact, intended to solve a truly Universal problem?

Edited and cross-posted to r/AskAnthropology

Although we now know that every other part of human experience is located in history and the result of historical and social processes interacting with individuals in an irreducibly complex web of action and reaction, we have finally discovered that there is, in fact, one universal which holds true for all cultures and all times: the writing of fanfiction. One legitimate Jungian archetype common to all past, present, and future peoples: fanfiction. One Platonic form: fanfiction. Fanfiction stands outside of time and space, the single incorruptible source of artistic endeavor, toward which the eye of God is forever turned, as He contemplates its infinity and perfection.

Does cultural difference make itself known in maths and/or formal logic?

Online Performance: Ballet 'Giselle'

In celebration of the Asian Heritage Month the Korean Cultural Centre is pleased to host an online screening of the phenomenal ballet 'Giselle' by the Universal Ballet Korea on May 28th at 8PM (EST).

'Giselle' is one of the most famous and widely performed works of the Romantic era and considered a masterpiece of the Romantic ballet blanc style. Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy a romantic story of love, betrayal and tragedy, told through the movements of the Universal Ballet.

Date: May 28th, 8PM (EST)

Venue: Youtube

Link: https://youtu.be/u_tTe9f-GX4

*The online screening will be LIVE and screened only once.

5월 아시아문화유산의달을 맞이하여 주캐나다한국문화원 은 5월 28일 20시에 온라인 플랫폼에서 유니버설 발레단 의 <지젤> 공연 상영회를 개최할 예정이오니 많은 관심과 참여 부탁드립니다.

I'm thinking of Ephesians 5, "the subordination of women," 1 Corinthians 14, "women should be silent," and 1 Timothy 2, "women shouldn't teach or have authority over men." Are these passages a contemporary reflection of the author's culture or are they doctrinal and of universal application?

Presumably, if a captain refers to a given engagement as a "Pyrrhic victory" he doesn't have to follow it up with an Earth history lesson on the Battle of Asculum, and describing an empire's policies as "draconian and borderline Orwellian" wouldn't necessitate explaining the severity of the laws imposed by Draco, or the themes of George Orwell's oeuvre.

So why is it that a reference to "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" gets translated as a bunch of proper nouns with no context, instead of replaced with the closest English equivalent to the sentiment? Where is the line at which a cultural reference requiring context to understand becomes just etymology for a word that can be ignored in the translation?

Hello r/India, wish you all happiness.

So, I was just wondering that South Korea and Japan have a huge cultural impact on the world with people going crazy over their culture and associate themselves with the aforementioned nations, with people terming themselves as Koreaboo or Weeb. The cultural phenomenon is so great that people of all races and all age groups are a part of the communities.

So, do you think there will ever be an "Indiaboo" cultural phenomenon where the whole world will consume Indian culture, music and entertainment en masse and appreciate Indianess, will there be crazy following for anything Indian like it's the case for South Korea of Japan, or we will fizzle out without any significant cultural impact over the world.

I just wanted to share a belief/idea I have, see what others think, if they do the same etc.

I feel that days/times were there are mass celebrations (or even mass horrors, but I feel those can carry negative vibes) even if it's something I don't actively participate in, increases the volume of "magickal" energy in the world. If you can tie your workings into that energy, it will increase the potency of whatever you're trying to accomplish.

For example, I usually start my daily meditation with lighting incense in either my Tree Man incense holder or my backflow incense burner. (I can explain why those are my dailies but that is a whole other post)

Today, in tying into the Lunar New Year, I used a Buddha Tea Candle holder.

I also will try and tie it into my daily tarot.

I'll mentally try to appropriate (see what I did there?) some of the New Year celebrations, even though I am a CIS-Gen male, chubby, white Jew-ish dude.

I am also going for Dim Sum, but that is only magickal deliciousness, lol.

So, Gung Hay Phat Choy! Guan Nian Hao!!

Edit: Clearly my joke about cultural appropriation wasn't gotten. Anyways, think for yourself, people. My shit is tied into humor. This whole thing is one big joke; except when it isn't. Laugh, live, do your own thing and if you don't like what I share, thats cool

Edited, and deleted some comments because I was a jerk, and I felt remorse

E.g. having a sports day or attending Sunday school or everyone visiting the same place on a trip at least once etc.

Hello,

I've been reading a lot of books about religious studies and anthropology and was wondering if a lot of anthropologists agree with this idea.

To oversimply, the idea is the concept of religion emerged from Protestantism, and the concept of "religion" creates an arbitrary centralized unity among different aspects of human society (like veneration of gods, rituals for venerating, norms for what's considered good behavior, intellectual traditions, etc).

S.N. Balagangadhara says in "The Heathen in His Blindness" that while the category religion maps onto the Abrahamic religions, it doesn't map onto Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh traditions. He also goes onto say that the majority of Indians are a people without religion (excluding Christians and Muslims). I think Jason Ananda Josephson-Storm mentions this in "The Invention of Religion in Japan" about Shinto, although I haven't read it yet.

Thoughts?

Edit: Just remembered something. Jason Ananda Josephson-Storm (/u/darknessvisible7) does have three videos on Youtube about the concept of religion for a Reddit course some years ago. It looks like there were supposed to be six, but he only has three videos, so it's incomplete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tiQFCVmvjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0r4TgksHSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7qDfSSbG4I

So I've been working for a while on a setting with a magic system based on what I'm calling "will", the meta-explanation is that basically the harder you want or believe on what you're doing the stronger the power of the magic becomes. With that broad concept I'm now exploring the different ways separate cultures would achieve this "will", with different schools and techniques that would in turn develop different hard and soft magic systems to enable the users to tap into the magic. Some cultures will develop extensive pantheons that can strengthen the casters beliefs through devotion, others will develop complex pseudoscientific theories that will strengthen their beliefs through reason, etc. What I'm trying to do now is to extrapolate what kind of freaky shit could happen with a concept as broad as this, like mad people with strong access to magic being able to basically do anything because their "beliefs" are completely detatched from reality, what are the limits of absolute religious zealotry when it comes to the power of faith or even what could be achieved with a sort of meditative enlightenment and a resolute view of the universe. What are you guys thoughts on this, is the syastem clear, is it too broad, what kind of limits should I be thinking of establishing (I'm already thinking of an ether sort of material that would be needed to channel the magic and whatnot), is it a cool concept, what do y'all think?

Even if a space is built with access in mind, one's likelihood of approaching or interacting with it will be limited based on both the intuitive nature of the structure's design and the person's comfort in making the approach.

Is spatial anxiety common in enough cultures that Universal Design emerged, at least in part, to ameliorate these concerns?
Is spatial anxiety considered a Cultural Universal?

Cross-posted to r/Urbandesign

Though the confusion component to Universal Design (UD) in Architecture isn't always promoted, it is a driving force behind the concept.

Even if a space is built with access in mind, one's likelihood of approaching or interacting with it will be limited based on the structure's intuitiveness.