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For the last 100 years, women’s rights have been undergoing a struggle, resulting in women clawing their way up the equality scale with men. While the West still has a ways to go, Western women can look to the developing world to see just how bad things were. Yet not all of these regions are [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Tuesday, September 25, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under People · Tagged Akan West Africa, Albania sworn virgins, Amish women, Eric Yosomono, Gaijinass.com, Himalaya polyandry, Iroquois League, Iroquois women, Kalash tribe, matrilineal cultures, Meghalaya, Minangkabau, Mosou, Rumspringa, Sahrawi Muslims
One of the sad truths about our little human race is that, far too often, we just don’t like each other. This goes for the little guy and heads of state equally. Of course when the latter don’t like each other, war is often the result. We all know the famous battles glorified by history [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, Military, Misc · Tagged American Army, American Revolutionary War, Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord, Battle of Hürtgen Forest, Black Virgin Mountain, Canada vs Croatia, Eric Yosomono, Gaijinass.com, Hürtgen Forest, Jean Chretien, little-to-no media coverage, media attention, Mountain Meadows massacre, New Year's Day Battle of 1968, oliver stone vietnam, Paul Revere, Penobscot Bay, Ripcord Association, Roosevelt's Secret War, Silent Seventh Division, Soviet–Japanese Border Wars, The Utah War, Utah War, Vichy France
Some actors are so good in their roles, that the viewing public forgets they’re watching a fictional movie. The performance draws them into the character and film until they think it’s real. This creates awkward situations for the actor who can be, at best, typecast into a particular role. At worst, they become universally despised [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Monday, June 11, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Entertainment, Movies, People · Tagged Ben Affleck, Brandon Lee, Casey Affleck, Eric Yosomono, films, Gaijinass.com, Gigli, Harvey Keitel, heaven's gate, I'm Still Here, Jame March Horwood, Jane March Horwood, Jennifer Lopez, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Demme, Kevin Costner, Kevin Dillon, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Cimino, Michael Massee, Omar Sharif, Platoon, Silence of the Lambs, Ted Levine, The 13th Warrior, The Deer Hunter, The Lover, The Sinner From Pinner, Tony Leung, Waterworld
Enlisting in the United States Marines Corps is not an afternoon of miniature golf and dinner at Cracker Barrel. Enlisting in the USMC is heavy. When one walks into the recruiting office, you already know that this is going to be drastically life changing, and you are about to enter a completely new world. In [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Business, Military, Misc, People · Tagged Culture of the United States Marine Corps, Devil Dog, Eric Yosomono, Gaijinass.com, marine paperwork, Marines, Recruit training, Scout Sniper, Staff Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, US Military, USMC obligation
Don’t worry, we’re not talking about some diamond-encrusted Barbie or a mini-Lamborghini. No, these toys are somewhere in a closet and, quite possibly, you might have played with them in your childhood. They are hard-to-find toys and collectibles that, for whatever reason, are holy grails in the collecting world. Right now they could be sitting in your [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under Comics, Entertainment, Games, Movies, Shopping, Television · Tagged 55 PB Teddy Bear, astronaut PEZ dispenser, Beanie Baby, Black Lotus Magic Card, Boba Fett, collectible toys, Eric Yosomono, Gaijinass.com, gi joe manimals, Margarete Steiff, Nintendo Stadium Events, Pez, Rear-Loader Beach Bomb, Richard Garfield, Rocket Fett, Royal Blue Peanut, Star Wars POTF Tri-Logo Ewok Combat Playpack, superman vs the robot
While Spielberg guaranteed that the world would remember Oskar Schindler, there were others who also saw the plight of the European Jews and went the extra mile to save as many as possible. While TopTenz has already mentioned Raoul Wallenberg and Chiune Sugihara there were others who rose to the challenge, taking incredible risks and [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History, People · Tagged Ángel Sanz Briz, Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches, Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz POW camp, Charles Coward, Chiune Sugihara, Eric Yosomono, Ernst Werner Techow, Gaijinass.com, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, Giorgio Perlasca, Giovanni Palatucci, Irena Sendler, José Castellanos, José Castellanos Contreras, Monsignor O'Flaherty, Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg, The Holocaust
Some countries like Germany, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Iran just have a bad reputation. There are, of course, others I won’t get into (I’m looking at you North Korea). But other countries like Holland, Canada and most of Scandinavia are looked at as the good side of our small, orbiting pile of rock. Yet these nations aren’t [...]
Posted by Eric Yosomono on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 12:01 am
Filed under History · Tagged adolf hitler, Bhutan, Bosnia, Eric Yosomono, Gaijinass.com, Germany, Ireland, Island Of Run, Jeju, korean war, leopold II, Nazi Germany, New Amsterdam, North Korea, norway, Norwegian Navy, Nutmeg, Nutmeg Island, Poland, REpublic of Ireland, Sarajevo, Serbia, South Korea, South Korean government, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands