Village
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I read, for example, about the Southern African king Ngungunhane, who led the resistance against the Portuguese in the 19th century; and about marriage rituals in a remote
village
on the shores of the Caspian sea in Turkmenistan.
And so their idea was, "They are coming to my village."
It was those guardians, it was that
village
mentality.
IW: We run a pilot village, home of 800 families.
The
village
mayor was our first friend and he loved our T-shirts, so that helped.
The
village
is already two-thirds along the way of becoming plastic bag free.
And we trained 250 people to give the slide show in every town and
village
and city in Australia.
Now, on the other side of the peninsula lies Cabo Pulmo, a sleepy fishing
village.
This is a
village
market.
This typically involved about 300 participants in a
village
in Africa, whose samples were analyzed to see whether antibodies to the protein would predict who got malaria and who did not.
So in a
village
with 10,000 mosquitos, you release an extra 100,000.
I was able to see that in a firsthand way, when I went to beautiful Dong village, in Guizhou, the poorest province of China.
And I said yes, about this
village
of singing people, singing minority.
And I began to sense something different about the history, and what had happened before, and the nature of life in a very poor village, and what you find as your joys, and your rituals, your traditions, your links with other families.
Everyone in his
village
tries to convince him to give up his lunacy, going so far as to burn some of the lurid books in his personal library.
He dresses up in old shining armor, mounts his skinny horse, and leaves his
village
in search of glory.
And, as you can imagine, if you can picture this: I was born in a very small
village
in Mexico, in, unfortunately, very poor surroundings, and my parents did not have a college education.
Twelve years ago, I picked up a camera for the first time to film the olive harvest in a Palestinian
village
in the West Bank.
I've noticed that movements which welcome women into leadership positions, such as the one I documented in a
village
called Budrus, were much more likely to achieve their goals.
This
village
was under a real threat of being wiped off the map when Israel started building the separation barrier.
The proposed route would require the destruction of this community's olive groves, their cemeteries and would ultimately enclose the
village
from all sides.
But they were told that success meant leaving the
village
behind and pursuing that iconic symbol of the American Dream, the white picket fence.
Many Americans are rejecting the white picket fence and the kind of highly privatized life that happened within it, and reclaiming
village
life, reclaiming interdependence instead.
The "new better off," as I've come to call it, is less about investing in the perfect family and more about investing in the imperfect village, whether that's relatives living under one roof, a cohousing community like mine, or just a bunch of neighbors who pledge to really know and look out for one another.
And as he did, he told me how he had come to the city from his
village.
So say I lived in a
village
with the first five rows of this audience, and we all knew one another, and say I wanted to borrow money.
Every night they set up a small, temporary
village
to deliberate their own vision of the French Republic.
If we think back to when we were hunter-gatherer economies, we really just traded within our
village
structure.
Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the
village
next door.
There's an African proverb that says, "If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."
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