Melting Pot vs. Ethnic Stew
Melting Pot vs. Ethnic Stew The term melting pot refers to the idea that societies formed by immigrant cultures, religions, end ethnic groups, will produce new hybrid social and cultural forms. The notion comes from the pot in which metals are melted at great heat, melding together into new compound, with great strength and other […]
Spiny Rush
Panel #7 of the Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia now installed at Wollombi. Spiny Rush Spiny Rush is widely used in Africa as weaving fibre for baskets and mats. Woman in Ghana weaving a basket . Rush is used as natural fibre for weaving in many cultures around the world. The fibre gets […]
Three Classes of Multiculturalism
I will with this post start widening the argument to the full extent of the project: Weeds as metaphore for human migration. The following article is from Michael David Cobb Bowen, an interesting and very prolific blogger. As I was struggling with getting my Texafornia piece out of ‘draft’, I started talking about multiculturalism over […]
An introduction to Noxious Weeds
“Although native plants and animals had supported the needs of Australian Aborigines for food and clothing over thousands of years, the first European settlers found the Australian flora and fauna particularly unsuited for their purposes. There were no native plants related to the cereals such as wheat, oats, barley and rice; no obviously edible fruit […]
