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August 2012 - Culture

In Mexico – Beyond Gay and Straight

Although Mexico can be quite intolerant of homosexuality, there are also places - like  the town of Juchitán - where the world is not divided simply into gay and straight. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” — men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders.

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Photo: New York Times

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Photo: Flickr/RobinCD123

Desperate Ugandans Seek Makeshift Healers as Mysterious Illness Strikes Young

Haunted by a merciless and debilitating disease that doctors cannot cure, villagers in this remote enclave in northern Uganda have turned to traditional healers.


Postpartum Traditions Around the World 

Special foods, prohibitions against sex, certain clothes, rest - traditions surrounding post-partum practices have existed universally since Biblical times. What's really surprising is that so many of the practices around the world are so...similar.

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Photo: Flickr/David J. Laporte

Cultural Quick Note: Denmark 

Folklore plays a big part in Denmark's culture and heritage.  Danish folklore includes lots of references to elves and other non-human characters. The elves, in traditional Danish folklore, were beautiful females living in hills and underneath boulders.  On the downside, they were capable of dancing a man to death.

Source: About.com    
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