British Expat Newsletter:
5 October 2005
This week: Coffee – how it’s produced and traded, and how fair trade is a growing part of the international coffee commodity market.
This week: Coffee – how it’s produced and traded, and how fair trade is a growing part of the international coffee commodity market.
This week: Shopping – how technology and business pressures are homogenising the experience of the weekly shop in the UK.
This week: Marital and family status – surveys reveal that singles without kids are the biggest group living in poverty in Britain today.
This week: Body Language – the massive role that non-verbal communication plays in conveying meaning.
“This is Anil, one of the coolies from Delhi’s Sarojini market. I used to choose Anil a lot of the time when we first arrived in Delhi because he was the smallest. By the time we left three years later, he was one of the biggest.”
This week: Weddings – what with arranged marriages, extravagant wedding receptions, and forced marriages, they’re not always straightforward affairs.