World War I devastated everything – nothing could ever be the same again, there was no way back to what it was like before. Everybody had bought into the values of class-consciousness, the formalism of societal norms and the constraints of culture but in the end these axioms had failed humanity. Everybody had played ball and [...]

The Beat Movement, The Beats, The Beat Generation – what exactly was it? Truth is I don’t know and I don’t think anybody else does. I mean beat generation was a moniker that Kerouac applied to his close circle of friends – it hardly defines a generation – indeed Corso saw that only three were [...]

In any single month, more than 10,000 people search for the “Chinese alphabet” on the internet.
Question is:
Does the Chinese language have an alphabet?
If so, where is it?
Why don’t I “see” it?
To answer the above questions, let’s look at how Chinese writing evolved over the ages.
At the beginning, societies created symbols to refer to simple things. [...]

Here is a humorous (and somewhat accurately informative!) clip addressing the question: what is emo?  (One that I, personally, have heard asked on several occasions!)