The (softly) relaunched ExpatHarem.com domain aims to bring a virtual community of cultural peers to life online as a neoculture hub for global citizens and identity adventurers as well as travelers, culturati and Turkophiles.
Posts Tagged ‘stereotype’
expat+HAREM: blooming behind closed doors
Posted in culture, identity, society, tagged anthology, collaboration, crossroads, culturati, culture, expat, ExpatHarem.com, expatriate, global citizen, global niche, global nomad, globalism, hybrid, identity adventurer, Jennifer Eaton Gokmen, liminality, multicultural, nationalism, neoculture, regionality, stereotype, threshold, tradition, travel, Turkey, Turkophile, virtual community on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Reacting to taboo
Posted in culture, friendship, harem, history, identity, memoir, society, taboo, women, tagged anachronism, Asia Minor, cloistered, enabling, expat, harem, invisibility, Muslim world, Oxford, refuge, stereotype, taboo, TED, TEDGlobal, unthinkable, virtual, wisdom, women on June 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Taboo’s unintended cloaking effect: we banish from our thoughts the most unimaginable human acts, making us blind to them in our midst
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