by Steve Chisnell | 23 June 2018 | ChizBlog, Travel
There have been numerous efforts to forge a unity inside that nation-state status, to either describe the common traits they share (among 120+ tribes/ethnicities and equal number of languages spoken) or to legally bind policy claims to that identity.
by Steve Chisnell | 27 December 2017 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Travel
Teen Tribe appears to be more punishment of spoiled white privilege through hardship and isolation. Here, however, they are sent to live as different indigenous tribes do; in other words, their “punishment” is to live the customary lives of the Other.
by Steve Chisnell | 19 January 2016 | ChizBlog, Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
Hours after arriving in the United States and I am wrestling with questions that have dominated my weekend and been drawn more acute by it. They are questions about not merely the gulfs of politics and ideology, but those of language. And not just about differing... 
by Steve Chisnell | 15 January 2016 | Culture Criticism, Global Issues, Travel
It’s been some years since I took a “Reality Tour” to Cuba. And while I have many memories of that trip, there are some parts of Cuba I worried about then, cracks in the communist walls against capitalist media and marketing that I feared might undermine some of the... 
by Steve Chisnell | 18 July 2012 | ChizBlog, Travel
Corn corn corn corn. I knew the long haul across Kansas would be a challenge. So I started the morning off by being the first one to charge into the over-advertised Meramec Caverns. Truly, they are extensive, and I admit I’ve never seen such an impressive array... 
Steve Chisnell (um, on the right) is a teacher at Royal Oak (MI) High School.
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