He has an eye for fine porcelain dishes and figurines.

We therefore prefer to work from concepts that encompass the psychophilosophical principles (Weltanschauung) of a culture or people and descriptions of actual behavior toward other human beings.

They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.

America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.