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Ideas Are Not Supreme
Illustration by Peter Oumanski “This American Life” is one of my favorite radio/internet programs. Fascinating, entertaining, informative…it’s a story based show that looks at American life in the...
View ArticleWhat is the future of women’s rights in India?
Cultures change when a critical mass of people is found to have altered its perspectives, values and behaviors. We may be witnessing an important cultural shift in India based on the massive public...
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Fax Machines and Culture
Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Who could have imagined that a piece of technology so outmoded that “the Smithsonian is adding two machines to its collection” would reveal so much about a...
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CultureWizard Digest, Issue #58
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard...
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Myanmar and an Asian Century
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon. Photo Credit: Sean Dubberke The decrepit, languishing state of Yangon’s buildings and infrastructure resemble a ghost town, but at ground level life abounds in the largest of...
View ArticleYahoo Terminates Telecommuting
Is Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, taking a positive step forward for the company as she reaches backwards in time to recreate a face-time culture? Or is this an antiquated, already anachronistic way of...
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Girls in Math & Science
I came across this article in the New York Times on gender, culture and performance in math and science, which is yet another area where Lawrence Summers got it all wrong. For years — and especially...
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CultureWizard Digest, Issue #59
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard...
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If Women Ruled the World
Listen to this BBC special in light of International Women’s Day.
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Intercultural Skills in Demand
Business News Daily notes the importance organizations are placing on intercultural business and language skills when hiring. According to a study by Ipsos Public Affairs, “nearly two-thirds of...
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Cost of [Good] Living
Maybe the saying’s true — “You can’t go home again,” but for very different reasons then you might expect. Ten years ago, not one single Australian city was in the top 50 most expensive cities in the...
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Soda Overtakes Wine in France
I can handle the nuclear bluster from North Korea, the sad fact that the Middle-East seems forever ruled by age-old rancor, and that yet another European country is on the brink, but soda surpassing...
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How to be German
British writer Adam Fletcher examines everyday German life in this post where he intends to teach readers how to be German in 20 steps. While the perspective he takes is satirical and sometimes...
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Look, Listen & Read
Eating lunch at your desk? Dining in the company of your tablet or smartphone? Read CultureWizard’s picks for three stories worthy of your lunch time attention. Look: Need a 9-minute dose of You Can Do...
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CultureWizard Digest, Issue #60
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard...
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Converse Affect
“How ugly we can become when we obsess over our beauty, and how beautiful we can be when we don’t.” A wise insight, and it got me thinking about a recent article I read in The Atlantic regarding...
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This is CultureWizard’s take on the best culturally oriented trivia, fun and insights of the week. Look: Have you ever eaten a Chinese meal in China and wondered why you didn’t get a fortune cookie...
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2013 HSBC Expat Explorer Survey
The HSBC Expat Explorer Survey opens 1st May and will close on 31st May — click here to take part and have your say! HSBC Expat today announces the opening of its sixth annual Expat Explorer Survey...
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May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity
Global cultural appreciation is pivotal to success in today’s diverse workplace. Although our daily lives are busy, some things are worth pausing for. May 21 is UN World Day for Cultural Diversity,...
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Devote One Day to Global Peace and Understanding
The United Nation’s mandate for “safeguarding peace, protecting human rights, establishing the framework for international justice and promoting economic and social progress” is not one the average...
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