Section 44 At Sea Throughout history, people have left the land and taken to the sea. This has been done to catch food by fishing or to visit other lands. Boats and ships have been used for this purpo...
Section 42 Visiting the Doctor In China, when people get ill, they usually go to the hospital. In the west, people will go to their doctor. Every person will be registered with a doctor, who gets to k...
Section 41 Shopping A western supermarket is so unlike what we see in China. In fact, China does not have many real supermarkets outside of the major cities. To enter a huge building and buy anything...
Section 40 Geography What is the capital of this country? Where is such and such a country? This is what we think of when we think of geography. In fact, geography covers not just countries and cities...
Section 39 Languages Language is one of the major forms of communication between people. Speech and writing are the main components of a language. By introducing grammar into language, we make it easi...
Section 38 Inventions They say that the world’s first great invention was the wheel. Perhaps we could argue that the discovery of fire was equally as important. Of course we don’t know who invente...
Section 37 Cooking Once we discovered fire, we learned how to cook. Since then, the methods of cooking vary tremendously. Culinary tastes have delivered boiling, baking, broiling, frying, grilling, ro...
Section 36 Illness No one goes through life without getting ill. We usually think of illness as a bad thing. Sometimes, thought, it is necessary to be ill, especially when we are young. That’s becau...
Section 33 Birth Of course, none of us can remember our own birth. If we could, I wonder what we would remember. For the mothers, it is a painful but usually a delightful experience. Hundreds of years...
Section 32 Death It is surprising how different cultures treat death. The ceremonies surrounding it vary from culture to culture, country to country. Even the colors associated with death vary. In wes...
