On top of being short for Camilla, Mila is also short for a few other names. Those include Milena, Emilia, and Ludmila. These names are also Eastern-European. Is Mila a Cute Name? The Slavic name Mila is feminine, quick, and smooth. Since it appeared in the popularity charts for baby...
Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar Carstens, Sharon A. 1988. “Chinese Publications and the Transformation of Chinese Culture in Singapore and Malaysia.” In Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II,...
This is a guest post by Katie, who divides her time among operating an interplanetary spacecraft, turning the gearwheels at her local hackerspace, practicing the Japanese Way of Tea, and an optimistic number of other things. It was originally posted to her blog. When it comes to “geek cul...
Motivated by the well-established benefits to society of artistic creation and of demographic diversity, we investigate the gender and racial/ethnic composition of influential contributors to four creative domains. Women make up 51% of the U.S. populatio
characters of different genders, as well as the division of labor in the production of such gendered impression. In contrast to the prevailing focus on cosplayers, I demonstrate how the supporting crew is also crucial for the success of gender play in cosplay: Not only do cosplayers need to...
Unisex dog names are the best answer for pet parents who wish to find a name that is both different and gender-neutral. If you give your dog a unisex name, not only will you be making a stand for all those people who are still fighting for gender-equality out there today, but you ...
her.” Even more affirming than this is the fact that whilst the dubbed version of the show ended up being cancelled, the original Japanese one ran to its intended conclusion; spawned two films;andinspired two spin-off series’ using the same characters –Tsubasa: Reservoir ChronicleandxxxHolic...
Let us consider Japanese Twitter, and how male and female language differ: where the word for “I/myself” in the standard gender-neutral is “watashi” but where female speech has the additional word “atashi” and male speech has words like “boku, ore.” Twitter in Japanese would thus...
(and preferably both) to keep horses. I attended alocal co-ed comprehensive secondary school, and none of my council estatefriends rode, and only the farming kids had ponies or horses. This bringsme to the following questions, which I will address in the following. Howgender-neutral is the...
Involvement in both leisure activity categories, but not in social activities, was significantly and positively associated with mental health status in both men and women (16,642 middle-aged Japanese adults, aged 50–59). Furthermore, in men, both “hobbies or cultural activities” and “...