#Western influences

[pebblegalaxy]

Exploring the Unique Blend of Tradition and Modernity: Modern Japanese Paintings and Influential Artists

In the world of painting, modern Japanese paintings have gained popularity due to their unique blend of traditional Japanese art styles and Western influences. During the Edo period, traditional Japanese art forms such as Ukiyo-e and ink painting were popular. However, with the Meiji Restoration, Japan underwent major changes, including the adoption of Western culture. This led to the emergence…

[indizombie]

Countering the dominant symbol of hijab as oppression are contemporary practices that celebrate Muslim identity and as women. In the mid-1970s, some Muslim women in Egypt began a movement called the ‘Sahwah’ (awakening) that sparked a period of heightened religiosity that began to be reflected in the hijab as a dress code, to both publicly announce their religious beliefs as well as a way to simultaneously reject Western influences of dress and culture. Many Muslim women also viewed the hijab garment as a positive resource, as a way to avoid harassment and unwanted sexual advances in public and to instead allow them to enjoy equal rights of complete legal, economic, and political status. Thus, the hijab is a fluid symbol that functions simultaneously as a symbol of oppression and of pride and respect, the right to freedom of expression and the right to practise one’s religion, albeit devoid of the usual stereotypes surrounding the practice of Islamic faith.

People's Union of Civil Liberties, 'Closing the Gates of Education: Violation of rights of Muslim women students in Karnataka'

[ducktracy]

if you find yourself asking "how shall i spend the next one minute and 52 seconds?", i implore you to turn to the Wansa-kun opening for the most joyful way to fill the time. isn't this wonderful

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Emilio Sala y Francés (Spanish, 1850-1910) Important ceiling finish following the Tiepolo model, n.d.

[1winwin]

i remember very well how quick some of you were to boycott the world cup, so if i don't see the same energy for eurovision it's clear as day where you stand and what media you consume

[leroibobo]

etz hayyim (“tree of life”) synagogue in chania, crete, greece. the building dates to the 14th-15th centuries, and was originally a venetian catholic church. it was acquired by chania's jewish community and converted into a synagogue in the late 17th century. chania's jews were deported due to the holocaust in 1944, after which the building remained abandoned until restoration in the 1990s.

romaniote jews are the oldest jewish community in europe and one of the oldest in the world, thought to have lived in and around present day greece since before 70 ce. they have their own liturgy that is unrelated to the more commonly used european ones (ashkenazic and sephardic).

[mortal-song]

went onto twitter to see that utenanthy are losing a “most influential yuri” poll to brittany and santana from glee………….. open the fucking schools

[reasonsforhope]

Future Crunch just paywalled their good news for "Energy" and "Technology"??? Which it looks like is about half of all their Good News?? (x)

I'm not particularly surprised because I WAS wondering how they made enough money to stay solvent, but I am dismayed

Partly on my own principles and partly because this kinda feels like it does/should go against their whole ethos??

Like if your big mission statement is "If we want to change the story of the human race in the 21st century, we have to change the stories we tell ourselves" (x) ....maybe you shouldn't paywall those stories???

That sounds very counterproductive and like you're taking access to good news away from a lot of people who need/want to hear it the most??? Esp in people in countries whose currency is much weaker than the US dollar??

[alwaysmanages]

You've heard of cowboy Snufkin, but how about...

his sharpshooter sister that could rival Annie Oakley?

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

[thelemonsnek]

[id: a drawing showing a lineup of four characters, Day (a pokemon trainer oc), and Akari, Laventon, and Ingo, all from legends arceus. Day is a white person with brown hair shaved short on one side, and wears glasses. They are wearing a short purple kimono, with a white shirt underneath and black pants with a purple flame pattern. Akari is wearing a long white kimono with blue plant patterns going up it in long stripes, a red sash around her waist, and has her hair tied back in a ponytail. Laventon is wearing his typical outfit minus the lab coat, which consists of a purple button up shirt, pinstripe pants, and a brown fluffy vest. Ingo is wearing a dark blue kimono and long black pants with a pink sash around his waist. End id]

Festival outfits!!!! Akari would NOT let Day go to the festival in their usual ragged clothes, which Laventon wholeheartedly supported, so Day dragged Ingo along too :) if they had to suffer without their usual coat so did Ingo

[razorsadness]

Tuesday June 21, 1938 (Yosemite)

Dies Irae: Wakened at 5:30—dragged weary bones erect, dressed, closed baggage, was ready shortly before six, and we were off again "on the dot"—at six oclock. So out of Klamath, the lakes red, and a thread of silver river in the desert, and immediately

the desert, sage brush, and bare, naked, hills, giant-molded, craterous, cupreous, glaciated blasted—a demonic heath with reaches of great pine, and volcanic glaciation, cupreous, fiendish, desert, blasted—the ruins of old settlers homesteads, ghost towns and the bleak little facades of long forgotten postoffices lit bawdily by blazing rising sun and the winding mainstreet, the deserted station of the incessant railway—all dominated now by the glittering snow—pale masses of

Mount Shasta—pine lands, canyons, sweeps and rises, the naked crateric hills and the volcanic

lava masses and then Mount Shasta omnipresent—Mount Shasta all the time—always Mt. Shasta—and at last the town named Weed (with a divine felicity)—and breakfast at Weed at 7:45—and the morning bus from Portland and the tired people tumbling out and in for breakfast

and away from Weed and towering Shasta at 8:15—and up and climbing and at length into the passes of the lovely timbered Siskiyous and now down into canyon of the Sacramento in among the lovely timbered Siskiyous and all through the morning down and down and down the canyon, and the road snaking, snaking always with a thousand little punctual gashes, and the freight trains and the engines turned backward with the cabs in front

down below along the lovely Sacramento snaking snaking snaking—and at last into the town of Redding and the timber fading, hills fading, cupreous lavic masses fading—and almost at once the mighty valley of the Sacramento—as broad as a continent—and all through the morning through the great floor of that great plain

like valley—the vast fields thick with straw grass lighter

than Swedes hair—and infinitely far and unapproachable the towns down the mountain on both sides—and great herds of fat brown steers in straw light fields—a dry land, with a strange hot heady fragrance and fertility—and at last no mountains at all but the great sun-bright, heat-hazed, straw-light plain and the straight marvel of the road on which the car rushes

—Thomas Wolfe, from A Western Journal

[skrunksthatwunk]

ok soooo im like 5 episodes into dear brother and i need you guys to know how much i love rei so far if only for her staggering around like a rain-soaked stray dog just haggard and unseeing all the time. like we know very little about her thus far except that every scene she's in she steals the show by flopping and wilting all over the frame

[weldnas]

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[fennaria]

Lantern Festival (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[leroibobo]

the paradesi synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. the first synagogue on the site, built by the city's longstanding malabari jewish community, was destroyed by portugese who'd colonized the area in their persecution of locals. it was rebuilt in 1568 by spanish and portugese jews who fled persecution and later expulsion, hence the name "paradesi" ("foreign" in malayalam).

these sephardic jews and a community of jews of mixed african and european descent who were formerly enslaved ("meshuchrarim", "freedmen" in hebrew) joined the malabari jewish community of kochi and somewhat integrated. they were later joined by some iraqi, persian, yemenite, afghan, and dutch sephardic jews. the middle eastern and european jews were considered "white jews" and permitted malabari jews and meshuchrarim to worship in the synagogue. however, in what seems like a combination of local caste dynamics and racism, malabari jews were not allowed full membership. meshuchrarim weren't allowed in at all, but were instead made to sit outside during services and not allowed their own place of worship or other communal rights.

as the "white jews" tended to be rather wealthy from trade, this synagogue contains multiple antiquities. they include belgian glass chandeliers on its walls, hand-painted porcelain tiles from china on its floors, and an oriental rug that was gifted by ethiopian emperor haile selassie.