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Alive And Well In Prague: A Case Study Of Ex-Patriotism

When asked why they pick to depart their native soil, I’ve heard plenty of ex-patriots solution with tales of youthful days spent eagerly turning the pages of a Nationwide Geographic and dreaming. My personal youthfully intrepid mind applied to consistently conjure up vivid photos standing on a boat’s bow peering out into an infinite sea. (My curiosity in Nationwide Geographic set in with puberty.) I doubt quite a few kids dream of traveling to far off places to struggle with alcoholism, intercourse-addiction and depression. When asked the query, “If you could go anywhere in the planet, in which would you go?”, not a lot of twelve-year-olds response, “Someplace seedy wherever I can pay out for intercourse, get inexpensive medication and have no one particular judge me!” In expatriate filmmaker Edward Longmire’s debut documentary, Alive and Nicely in Prague, these are the circumstances his camera captured as he follows 4 expatriates residing in Prague. The Prague Submit felt the f...

Looking For Bliss In The Land Of Shangri-La

By Lizzie Simon On my last night in the Yunnan Province in rural Southwest China, I encountered 3 handsome, blond horses lingering at the entrance of my reconstructed Tibetan lodge. They had wandered in from one particular of the neighboring Naxi tribe’s wheat farms. I had spent the entire week creating speak to with exotica, and that evening, like every single evening, I approached bedtime with equal elements exhaustion and excitement. Earlier, at dusk, I had spied these identical horses mingling with the yaks, pigs and sheep across the gently babbling brook that just barely separates the resort and the nearby Chinese Tibetans going about the day-to-day rituals they’ve enacted for centuries. And now they have been at my door, maybe filled with the exact same curiosity with which I had viewed them. In the Yunnan Province, the seamlessness among one’s check out, the astounding organic elegance and the ancient genuine culture is exquisite. And it is this rare seamlessness that makes t...