Tommy Sotomayor spoke in a video. He said that whites only call mixed people black. He was incorrect. It depends on which white person and in which context. I understand why he made this “mixup” (har har har! 😉 ) because he’s not around whites like I am or have been. Nor was he raised by them. People, in general…
I’ve made a Facebook post that shares a tidbit about introducing yourself in Vanno. Click here to read it.
Have you ever taken a moment to listen to what your own words sound like? I don’t mean in a narcissistic way; I mean their vibrations. How they escape your vocal chords and resonate in the air. With enough concentration and aptitude, especially if you’ve learned another language, you can partition your perception of your own words, and hear them…
It’s a Vannoken tradition to knock on the dinner table as the head of the house approaches it (for dinner only). It’s a mechanism for stimulating conversation about the wellbeing of the family, instead of running from problems that would destroy the family. We came up with the idea from Arthurian legend. The knights of the round table have oft…
Remember: Tribes were homogenous in ancient Europe, the same way they were in Africa and China. There were different Danish tribes, for instance; not all Viking tribes were the same. They even had different dialects. Like, when I refer to me studying ancient Norse, I refer to western Norse, rather than Eastern Norse. The former pertains to Iceland and Norway…
