culture

This photo shows a small handful of rice that a person starts with when making sushi at a lesson for novices in Tokyo, on May 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuri Kageyama)

The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" is seen on a one dollar coin, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Portland, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Initiates return after completing their passage to manhood at a traditional initiation school, in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Alfonso Nqunjana)

Katja Bernegger, Founder of Zeronimo, poses for a photo at the Wine Paris 2026 fair, at the Porte de Versailles exhibition center in Paris, France, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Dancers perform as giant marionettes parade through the streets during an art festival in Bamako, Mali, on Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Moustapha Diallo)

Pakistani folk musician Sham Bhai, second from right, performs with her team members at a village in Umerkot, a district of Pakistan's southeastern Sindh province, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

Cultural practitioner Glen Kila walks around the petroglyphs carved into the rock at Pokai Bay during low tide, July 22, 2025, in Waianae, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

Students from Arizona's BASIS Flagstaff Charter School participate in the semifinal round of the National High School Ethics Bowl in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sunday, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

A soldier plays an accordion during the performance of the "corrido" rhythmic style for the media at a military base in Mexico City, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

A punk attends a punk festival in Hangzhou, China, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Manuela Sales da Silva Ferreira, owner of the family-run Restaurante Litoral, puts egg yolk on a crabmeat shell in a kitchen of her restaurant in Macao, on Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Anthony Kwan)

FILE - Tampa Bay Rays' Ryan Pepiot, left, adjusts the mustache of starting pitcher Tyler Alexander before a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Friday, Aug. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)