How I Love You

“I Love You, You Pay My Rent”: Belarusian-Russian Integration

The history of Russian-Belarusian integration is a strange history indeed. Throughout the whole decade ever since 1995, the two countries have engaged in a highly publicized series of diplomatic exchanges about their commitment to the Union state between each other, and ever-closer union it were to be in political, economic and military spheres. Yet despite all public declarations and the expan...

An Exploratory Study on the Use of 'I Love You' in the American Context

This study explores the use of the English locution I love you in the American context. The data were collected through a focus discussion group and a survey questionnaire. 120 college undergraduate students from a large public American university participated in the study with 28 attending the focus discussion group and 92 completing the survey questionnaire. The findings indicated th...

How I Fell in Love with Japan.

I Love You, I Hate You: Toward a Psychology of the Hindu Deus Absconditus

Psychological studies of Hindu religion and culture routinely stress a difference between "East" and "West." Whether this difference reflects a certain Hindu pathology (Carstairs 1961; Spratt 1966; Masson 1980; Kakar 1981) or normative developments relative to each culture (Roland 1988; Kurtz 1992), the seemingly uncontested consensus is that Hindu India nurtures a "collective self." Though gen...

How I learned to love the Brits

As a child I grew up in awe of an English accent. That was not unusual for an American because so many movie stars spoke with an English accent. All during my high school and college days I instinctively believed that anyone who spoke with an Oxford or BBC accent was an authority. And even professors and intellectuals who adopted the Harvard version of an English accent held me in awe. Several ...