Category: Culture
Primary school politics
Election Day, April 24. The morning commute was slow, like every morning this last week since the tunnel – the only other route…
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The Queen’s Birthday, Greenland style
Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark – a constitutional monarchy that also includes the Faroe Islands. Having long yearned for its…
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Playing with fire
We’re a three-weapon household. As I write, my husband is cleaning one of his rifles on the kitchen table, preparing it for the…
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Driving in Greenland
The car rejected reverse in any kind of cold weather. And in the winter it snowed on the inside. It was the worst…
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So much for the Kingdom of Denmark
*Cartoon by Buuarsikkut Soon there will be an election in Greenland. Elections are a time when Greenland, sometimes, makes it into the international media….
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Culturally appropriate education
It’s well-recognised that we learn more effectively if new information is presented in a context that is familiar to us. We learn based…
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A dose of our own medicine
*Photograph by Natasha Henwood My family are nomadic – my husband and I by choice, our son by grim reluctance. Since I left…
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I like whales, but I couldn’t eat a whole one
We sailed into a small settlement on a calm day, two of us motoring in an open boat. I leaned over the side,…
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“F*** Greenpeace”
*Photograph by Chris Kirkland “F*** Greenpeace,” declared the bumper sticker of a battered old station wagon. I couldn’t but laugh – only…
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