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Cross-Cultural Dynamics

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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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FindCenterTo travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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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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FindCenterThe need to be right [is] the sign of a vulgar mind.

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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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