Coffee:
There are two lesser known coffee bean varieties called Liberica and Excelsa. Liberica is known for having a distinctive "smoky" taste compared to other types of coffee. Excelsa is classified as a subspecies of Liberica, and the taste is somewhat fruity.
Kapeng Barako is a coffee that belongs to the Liberica family. I'll link to Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapeng_barako
I'll let you know about a brand of excelsa coffee that you can buy online.
https://lenscoffee.com/excelsa-blend-from-buon-me-thuot/
Uniforms:
Japanese school uniforms were originally inspired by military uniforms, European naval uniforms, more specifically. While boys, I think, always wore western-style uniforms after Japan opened up to Western influence, girls used to wear a maroon or purple coloured hakama to school, more closely resembling traditional clothes.
(Photos from an episode of Japanology Plus.)
Hakama were traditionally men's wear, women started wearing them during the Meiji era because they were more comfortable and easier to move in, becoming a symbol of women's rights.
High Context And Low Context Cultures:
In general terms, a high-context culture favours implied messages understood by "context," with unspoken messages being implicitly communicated, considering the background knowledge and relation between speakers, while low-context culture favours more direct communication. High-context cultures may be more collectivist or close-knit.
No culture can be said to be completely high context or low context, for example, even in a low context culture, families and other groups with a common background are more likely to use high context communication. Settings where there is more diversity in backgrounds, such as large cities, tend to be lower-context relatively.
(Regarding high and low context and school uniforms, I have a suspicion countries which makes pupils wear school uniforms are more likely to be high context cultures. Might need to do more research however.)
Natural Foods:
Many of the foods we eat do not come "straight from nature," but is largely man-made. Most fruits and vegetables sold in the store is cloned, which is why they look and taste identical. Many fruits and vegetables sold in stores are also hybrids between different species. The commonly-known orange is a hybrid between the Mandarin Orange and the Pomelo. The Persian Lime is a hybrid between the Key Lime and the Lemon. The Garden Strawberry is a hybrid between two different wild strawberry species.
Speaking of fruits, a fruit that used to be popular but few people have heard of nowadays is the boysenberry. It is a berry bred from four different types of berries. It is believed to have originated in the late 1920s or earlier, traced back to Rudolph Boysen. Another fruit is the durian, which has a very pungent odor. (I haven't smelled it yet.)
The orange carrot originated with the wild carrot, which is a white color. Potatoes might be stereotypically associated with the Irish, but the country where they first were domesticated was somewhere around Peru.
Audio Games:
Most computer games range from being barely accessible to not accessible at all for the severely visually impaired. However, games that are based entirely on sound are a solution.
This website is dedicated to games accessible to the blind with audio.
https://www.audiogames.net
Life On Other Planets:
The question as to whether there is life on other planets could be answered fairly soon. Gaymende, Callisto and Europa, three of four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, are hypothesized to have water oceans beneath their surfaces. The "JUpiter ICy moons Explorer," or JUICE, developed by the European Space Agency, which should eventually reach Jupiter in October 2029, studying Ganymede, Callisto and Europa for their potential to support life, and the Europa Clipper by NASA is a mission specifically for Europa, to begin in 2024.
Australia:
There are more kangaroos than humans in Australia. There are probably more animals than humans in almost any country, except perhaps Vatican City, even there, crows are a possibility.
Speaking of crows, a seagull and a crow attacked two peace doves which were released back in 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ_JnOi4q7w
Pickles:
When people refer to a "pickle," almost always they are referring to a pickled cucumber. But other vegetables, and even fruits, can be made using a similar process to cucumbers. "Pickling" is an entire process all its own.
Prison Food:
A brand of potato chips called "The Whole Shabang" was served in prison commissaries across the United States, which are apparently so good that released people and people who never committed crimes desperately wanted the chips, though it was only served in jails and prisons. Because of this, these potato chips can now be ordered through the internet.
Which makes me wonder, if these potato chips were so delicious, why were they only available to people convicted of some sort of crime, and not the general public. This is not the same as stating prisoners should all be fed mice and cockroaches, but doesn't it seem kind of unfair to the law-abiding?
Men Originally Wore High Heels:
High heels are normally worn by women and girls, but they were originally worn by men, in one of many examples of changing gender associations. High heels can be traced back to 15th century Persia when riders used them to help secure their feet in stirrups when riding a horse. These versions of high heels also helped originate the cowboy boot.
When the Persians sent a diplomatic mission to Europe in 1599, Persian style heels were adopted by European aristocrats, such as kings and other noble and wealthy men, as a signal of status. They appeared taller, and they did not have to work in such shoes.
The first known woman to wear high heels was Catherine Dr Medici in the 16th century, who was about 150 cm tall and wanted to appear taller at her wedding.
Some women in Europe also had a trend to borrow from male wardrobes, even so far as being accused of carrying weapons to look more masculine.
High heels were largely forgotten during the Enlightenment, because "rationality" told people that wearing shoes preventing them from walking properly was unwise.
High heels are nowadays impractical and far distanced from their original horseracing purpose.
It seems that different articles gives different answers, so I'll give this list of links to different articles related to women's rights.
https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/02/27/women-wear-high-heels-because-we-are-idiots-says-history/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2090136-the-lost-women-of-enlightenment-science/
https://daily.jstor.org/3-women-philosophers-of-the-enlightenment/
https://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/Enlightenment.html
hsnsw.asn.au/articles/WomenOfTheEnlightenment.pdf
People who wear high heels may experience pain and physical problems, and related to the topic, a woman by the name of Yumi Ishikawa started the #KuToo movement, a play on #MeToo, and the Japanese words for shoes and pain, kutsu and kutsuu. Her complaint is that many companies in Japan require women to wear heels during work, causing pain and physical problems. In Japan, it was often portrayed as a physical issue rather than a gender issue.
Animal's Reaction To Masks:
If you suddenly show up at the door wearing some sort of mask, with a dog or a cat, they will often be wary at a minimum, or? even completely freak out. However, I? observed (on videos) that with horses, their reaction is almost the opposite, if you show up wearing a horse mask, the horses will show interest. Until you suddenly take off the horse mask to reveal a human underneath, as shown in this video:?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdNWvKL794I
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