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Cross-Cultural Dynamics



Culture is all the assumptions, expectations, and shared history that make up “the way we do things.” It’s reflected in everything we do, in all the ways we dress, act, speak, move, and interact with each other. And it doesn’t just happen at the national level—every single people group, no matter how large or small, adopts its own culture, even down to our own family of origin. A lot of friction can happen in relationships—whether work, social, or familial—when miscommunications, misunderstandings, or full-on disagreements appear because of our cultural differences, especially when certain expectations appear unexpectedly or are so ingrained that we feel it is ridiculous—or offensive—when others challenge them. Holding onto our own values and identity while honoring the values and identities of those around us is a process that takes care, compassion, and self-examination.

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Cross-Culture Parenting: How Parents Around the World Are Solving Universal Parenting Problems

In this video, we look at parenting around the world. Parents all around the world are solving the same universal problems, just in different ways.

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy.

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The Whiteness of ‘Coming Out’: Culture and Identity in the Disclosure Narrative

Ideas of visibility and the closet have largely been shaped by white America and the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Refusing to subscribe to this narrative gives us space to connect with our gender, our culture and our sexuality on our own terms.

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How a Cross-Cultural Childhood Can Provide Hope in the World | Aleka Bilan | TEDxJIS

By telling her own life story, Aleka Bilan hopes that others with a similar upbringing can identify the challenges and recognize the benefits that can arise from a cross-cultural childhood.

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The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why

A “landmark book” (Robert J. Sternberg, president of the American Psychological Association) by one of the world's preeminent psychologists that proves human behavior is not “hard-wired” but a function of culture.

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Hey, Victoria’s Secret: Cultural Appropriation Isn’t Hot. It’s Wrong.

Cultural appropriation in fashion plays a huge role in the continued dismissal of indigenous cultures as primitive, dismisses indigenous people as playthings, and perpetuates the idea that we are relics of the past.

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Jeremy Narby - My Life as a White Vampire: Gringos, Amazonians and the Antidote of Reciprocity

Jeremy Narby's talk at the 2019 World Ayahuasca Conference explores the practice of extracting knowledge from the Amazon, reflecting on how Western people tend to end up in vampiric relations with indigenous Amazonian people despite their best intentions.

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Asian Americans Are Viewed as More American If They Are Gay

New research finds that an Asian American who presents as gay signals that he or she is fully invested in American culture.

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