culture
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Global Citizen or Hometown Misfit?
When I was nine years old my father was headhunted to save a suffering advertising agency in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I had just entered the fourth grade, yet within six weeks our entire house was packed in boxes and his company flew us, first-class, on the long journey to South America to begin our new lives.
By Shannon O'Flaherty5 years ago in Wander
The Gun That Changed the World
Nobody comes here. Not by choice. Sometimes, a bus full of school kids will pull up outside. The young minds of the future will be forced through the echoing halls like toothpaste through a tube, counting the hours until they can escape.
By Ryan Frawley5 years ago in Wander
The Caucasus Beyond the Mythical White Person
High in the mountains running along the border between Azerbaijan and Georgia, in the garrison town of Zaqatala, former outpost of the famed Imam Shamil who in the mid-nineteenth century led the longest resistance to Russian rule, I meet an elderly woman crossing the street.
By Rebecca Ruth Gould5 years ago in Wander
A Racing Uncertainty
To say that he woke with a start would not be strictly accurate, mainly because he was quite certain that he was not awake at all. There was, however, a start involved – in particular a starting pistol that went off with a loud bang and started the runners in a huge race.
By John Welford5 years ago in Wander
