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Mental Health: Culture Gap - boston.com

Among newcomers to the West - many of us are now foreign-born - mental illness can be an alien, stigmatizing term, and many immigrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia are far more likely to talk initially about physical ailments than seek psychiatric services...

posted by Sceptic , 15-04-2008, 11:07 | 0 comments
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Culture Speeds Up Human Evolution - sciam.com

People has spread across the globe and increased vastly in numbers over the past 50,000 years or so—from an estimated five million in 9000 B.C. to roughly 6.5 billion today. More people means more opportunity for mutations to creep into the basic human genome and new research confirms that in the past 10,000 years a host of changes to everything from digestion to bones has been taking place.

posted by Healer , 27-12-2007, 01:57 | 2 comments

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