The Ethnic Home2025-10-07T23:00:04+00:00

WELCOME!

THE ETHNIC HOME is an independent, non-profit, open-access space — a home for indigenous arts, antiques, and the living heritage of craftsmanship.

We are not sellers. We are not dealers.
WE ARE STORYTELLERS.
We love to pick up a handmade item, hold it in our hand, watch, touch, and smell it.
Then, we love to sit down and listen, waiting for the story a piece is ready to tell.
And we love to search for the hidden stories behind what we’ve heard, until we find something to share.

A story, a poem, a tale, a reflection.

This blog is a journey through time and space, life and pain, starting from the many forms of material culture and beauty.
Come with us to explore the seemingly contrasting expressions of the same nature.

OURS.

THE HUMAN NATURE.

This blog is a journey through ourselves and our world, through our human differences and similarities, our creativity and colors, our sorrows and struggles.

Only by coming to know one another more deeply can we recognize that we are all vibrant, colorful expressions of the same light.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken February 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun.

We are the Earth.
One breath. One world. One home.

What kind of blue-printed nescience chainsaws a 400-year-old tree and calls it “development”?
What kind of rot-order poisons rivers, razes communities, sterilizes soil and then calls it “progress”?

But it’s not ignorance. It’s not misorder.
It’s a system engineered to reward destruction and dress it up as ambition.
People aren’t failing to see the damage — they’re paid not to care or turn Spotify louder.

The circuitry that turns every heartbeat into a quarterly line item is built on exploitation.
Of the ground, the sky, and the backs of people never invited to the table.
It’s the gospel of profit:
Rip it out, sell it fast, and leave the corpse behind.

This planet is not a vault to be emptied, but a miracle to be shared.

The truest riches —
clean water, living soil, breathable air, cultural memory, wild beauty, and human coexistence —
cannot be minted, mined, or replaced.
Kepler-452b is 1,400 light-years away and still hasn’t invented the odor of geosmin after a storm.

So, the ‘business’ desecration of nature is the desecration of human nature.

Because when you poison a river, you poison a village.
When you turn soil to dust, you starve a people.
When you call land “property,” you erase the ancestors who lived and died there.
And when you sell the future for profit, you bankrupt the soul.

So let’s stop pretending this is about saving the planet.
The planet will rock along its Milanković cycle.
It’s my soul that won’t survive.

Original and Researched

All content on this blog is original and the result of careful research.

Quotations from other authors are always explicitly acknowledged.

No AI tool created or generated any of the text or articles on this blog. In some cases, AI tools have only assisted us in the research phase.

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are “how-to” practical guides for buying the best ethnic pieces
with a well-informed and knowledgeable approach.
Our flipbooks are rich in interior designs tips and tricks as well,
as many ethnic or tribal items have a strong personality.

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Did you inherit from your aunt a tribal mask, a stool, a vase, a rug, an ethnic item you don’t know what it is?

Did you find in a trunk an ethnic mysterious item you don’t even know how to describe?

Would you like to know if it’s worth something or is a worthless souvenir?

Would you like to know what it is exactly and if / how / where you might sell it?

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