Archive for the ‘Tales’ Category

Shrek: The Anti-Fairy Tale

September 7, 2011 Books, Child Raising, Culture, Europeans, Family, Movies, Popular Culture, Tales

  Over Labour Day weekend, I watched the Shrek movie series for the first time.  I will readily admit that I enjoyed them: engaging storylines, very funny scenes, and some great one-liners.  For those of you who have not seen …

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The Importance of Folklore in a Nation’s Culture

July 3, 2011 Child Raising, Culture, Europeans, Family, History, Music, Poetry, South Africa and Rhodesia, Tales, The West

  The ingredients which I regard as being the most crucial to the existence of any ethnic group would probably be lineage, history, geography, beliefs, language, sense of humor, customs, and folklore. Folklore, however, is one of the aspects most …

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In Our Own Image

March 14, 2011 Blog, Christianity, Europeans, False Religions, Music, Tales

  “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.’ . . . So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” – …

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Who Is John Galway?

February 1, 2011 America, Culture, Tales

John Galway is an average White American. John is a mix of Europe; his ancestry includes German, Scandinavian, English, Italian, Scottish, and of course, with a last name like Galway, Irish too. He grew up in small-town America as one …

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