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• New Year…New Vegetable?

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  What, might you ask, do vegetables have to do with intercultural communications?  Everything, when it’s your 8 year old child suggesting you try a new vegetable every month for the new year.  In talking about multicultural perspectives to Dillon, we like to emphasize that just because people do things ...
  2 days ago

• Intercultural Couple Question #3: Do You Fit Parts of Your Culture’s Stereotypes?

  
  Gori Girl — Authority: 103
  Photo Credit: lemuelinchrist This is the third post from my ten question series on questions and discussions that are particularly important for intercultural or interracial couples to have. All of the posts from this series can be found on the series index, The Ten Questions Every Intercultural Couple Should ...
  1 week ago

• Writing in a Foreign Language: Walk, Swagger, Stroll

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  My husband’s a bigger John Wayne fan that me (our pet goldfish is a bigger John Wayne fan than me, but that’s beside the point).  He grew up in Brazil watching and loving the old John Wayne movies.   “I do love his ‘swagger’ though” I admitted.  “You mean his “arrastando pé?” my husband asked, ...
  1 week ago

• Child Maids – Two Sides to Every Issue

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 111
  Today a friend of mine in Singapore  asked me why here are so many child maids in Morocco, and why they are not going to school. When I first moved to Morocco in 1993, this was one of the issues which really shocked me, and I wondered the same thing. Today, after living in Morocco for 17 years, I see that there are ...
  1 week ago

• Jews Celebrating Christmas…the Japanese Version

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  I find myself running around today singing “Rockin Around the Christmas Tree” and “Have a Holly Jolly Christmas” .  And with 6 inches of snow on the ground in Chicago, Bing Crosby’s (above) White Christmas is at the top of my list, too. As my son says “you’re not even Christian.”  But that ...
  1 week ago

• Balance of Traditional Roles in Intercultural Relationships

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  You know how at your kid’s school there’s always that one “uber” mom–the one who is always organizing things, bringing treats, she’s at all the assemblies and really seems to be on top of everything?  There’s one of those at my son’s Hebrew School.  Only she isn’t Jewish. I was reminded of her as ...
  1 week ago

• 3 Tips to Favor Process Over Product in Intercultural Communications

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  You probably know one of each.  The one who picks up little things here and there over the course of the year, when things are on sale, and is ready for Christmas on December 1, and the one who walks the sales clerk out the door as it closes on December 24.  The result is the same.  Both will end up with the same ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Four Seasons Has Cultural Sensitivity

  
  Business Communication — Authority: 136
  The Four Seasons leads the hospitality industry with innovative enhancements and high standards, because their globally located teams of employees are single-focused.  This requires their leadership on all levels to have cultural intelligence, cultural sensitivity and a reinforced tolerance for cultural ...
  2 weeks ago

• Children’s Multicultural Book Review, by Dillon, Age 8

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  What book did you read? Home of the Brave, by Kathleen Applegate It’s about a kid who goes to America from Africa.  The story is about him and his relationship with this cow.  Its name is Gol, which means family in Africa.  He moves to America because of the war in Sudan. Why do you think this book is ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Truth About Teaching our Kids About Prejudice/Racism: Sometimes We’re Speechless

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  Dillon, bless his little heart, at only 8 years old had to get a root canal last week.  He had broken his tooth while playing last March, and unfortunately it had gotten infected. But that’s not the real story.  My husband was in the room with him as the Dentist got started.  “Would you like some gas before I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Building the bridge

  
  Christopher Schwartz's Weblog — Authority: 115
  My professor , like me, has committed his life to building bridges across the human chasms of language and thought.  He laments the imminent extinction of first contacts, when cultures untouched by each other or the wider world for the first time part the fronds and gaze upon each other in terror, wondering, Are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Some Tutoring Clients Just Aren’t a Good Fit

  
  Dedicated Elementary Teacher Overseas — Authority: 111
  A teacher working with elementary students In any personal service business, setting goals and objectives with the clients is of utmost importance.  Sometimes clients are not on the “same page” as the tutor.  It’s important to agree on goals and objectives, or any program heads “south” quickly. I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dear Mr. Bagel….

  
  American Professor: China Educator, Media, SEO, PR Consultant — Authority: 92
  Below, find a few of dozens of letters of application sent to an Italian restaurant (Danny’s Bagel) here in Guangzhou. The names and schools have been altered so students won’t suffer any embarrassment. I should have started a collection a long time ago of the many others I have seen…. Typically only 1/10 will ...
  3 weeks ago

• 10 Tips for Growing and Learning in Intercultural Communications

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  Remember the old adage ‘the best way to remember your story is to tell the truth?’  Well, it’s the same with Intercultural Communications.  The best way to interact with others is to be keenly aware of yourself…but also hyper sensitive and to the individuality and autonomous experience of others around you. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not Your Grandma’s Aerobics Class…My BAD!

  
  Intercultural Talk — Authority: 116
  Walking in to teach aqua aerobics this morning, I looked across the sea of blue hair, wrinkles and skirted suits and remembered the ladies at the swimming pool at my Grandma’s apartment complex in Miami Beach:  “Don’t splash honey” they would say, plastic bags covering their freshly teased hair.  I was ...
  4 weeks ago

• Intercultural Couple Question #2: What’s Your Opinion of Our Two Cultures?

  
  Gori Girl — Authority: 103
  Photo Credit: Made Underground This is the second post from my ten question series on questions and discussions that are particularly important for intercultural or interracial couples to have. All of the posts from this series can be found on the series index, The Ten Questions Every Intercultural Couple Should ...
  4 weeks ago

• Culture Shock: I Still Cant Adjust to Eating Bugs

  
  Business Communication — Authority: 136
  Sorry, I know it’s sophomoric, but when I wanted an image to communicate Culture Shock (from a United States/Western European perspective) I couldn’t resist the photo of basically a ‘bug buffet.”  I know I’ve heard they are full of protein, even tasty, but from my own cultural perspective, I don’t see ...
  4 weeks ago

• Intercultural Couple Question #1: What Was Your Childhood Like?

  
  Gori Girl — Authority: 103
  Photo Credit: lepiaf.geo (better off slipping into blur) This is the first post from my ten question series on questions and discussion that are particularly important for intercultural or interracial couples to have. All of the posts from this series can be found on the series index, The Ten Questions Every ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Ten Questions Every Intercultural Couple Should Discuss

  
  Gori Girl — Authority: 103
  Photo Credit: ginnerobot There are the questions every serious couple – couples with commitment in mind -should discuss. And then there are the questions that I believe every intercultural, interracial, or international couple really must discuss – conversations that may not be as important for monoculture ...
  4 weeks ago

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