Cultural Differences

Facial Expression Study Has Scientists Rethinking Darwin's 'Six Emotions'

| John Bohannon | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Emotions, Faces, Anthropology, Western Europe, Caucasian, Evolution, Facial Expression, Asian, Cultural Differences, Asian Culture, Video, Science News

A smile and a frown mean the same thing everywhere—or so say many anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists, who for more than a cent...

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How Many Continents Are There?

Kurt Wootton | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Asking Questions, Inquiry-Based Education, Ted Sizer, New York City Teacher Ratings, Cultural Differences, Education News
Kurt Wootton

We have about 45 million students taking standardized tests across the United States. With this many tests, how can states possibly evaluate complex and creative answers to interesting questions?

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Women and Human Rights

Nina Burleigh | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Human Rights, Global Rights, Hijab, Cultural Differences, World News
Nina Burleigh

Are we losing cultural value when societies stop forcing women to cover their flesh for fear of inciting male lust and God's displeasure?

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Has Diversity Lived Up to Its Promise?

Laura Liswood | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Leadership, Organizational Culture, Inclusion, Diversity, Cultural Differences, Company Diversity, Diversity Office, Diversity Company, Workplace Diversity, Business News
Laura Liswood

My belief is that we need to move now to Diversity 2.0 and give managers and leaders the training, awareness, skill sets, tools that ensure we engage and capture the full benefit of the diversity we say we are so committed to.

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A Lack of Cultural Intelligence Will Put You Out of Business

Glenn Llopis | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Marketing, Trends, Leadership, Social Change, Business, Diversity, Cultural Differences, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Glenn Llopis

Our leaders can't buy cultural intelligence. It's not for sale. You must live it in order to authentically be it. Businesses have to get it or they will be left behind in the global race over the next decade.

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Pardon My French: Our Heroine Learns To Love/Hate The French

Katie Beck | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Living Abroad, France, French, Ex-Pat, Nice, Travel Blogs, French Culture, Pardon My French, Cultural Differences, France Travel, International Destinations, Travel News
Katie Beck

It was clear that our presence was beyond an inconvenience to them. My lack of French, from the looks on their faces, was an offense punishable by death.

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Hispanic Leadership is a Business Imperative

Glenn Llopis | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Leadership, Hispanic-Market, Hispanic Business, Consumer Spending, Center for Hispanic Leadership, Cultural Differences, Hispanic Leaders, Latino Voices News
Glenn Llopis

There is urgent work to be done by America's corporations to develop an authentic marketing approach to the Hispanic market, and an approach to hiring that allows Hispanics to bring their whole selves to work. There is equally urgent work to be done by America's Hispanics to step up to their new role as America's "majority minority" to start bringing their whole selves to work and to the community.

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Dancing to End Female Genital Cutting

Julia Lalla-Maharajh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julia Lalla-Maharajh, Davos, Orchid Project, World Social Forum, Human Rights, Africa, Dakar, Communities, Fgc, Gambia, Molly Melching, Female Genital Cutting, Senegal, Tostan, Bill Clinton, Unicef, Cultural Differences, Impact News
Julia Lalla-Maharajh

Communities are changing, shifting, abandoning. The very people who have perpetuated the practice of female genital cutting for centuries are choosing to change.

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Knowing What You Don't Know

Sabrina Stevens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Conversation, Education, Education Reform, Cultural Differences, Education News
Sabrina Stevens

It's another one of those first-meetings I have a lot recently. I'm sitting in a I-don't-know-what-but-don't-care-as-long-as-they-serve-beer-place, across from someone who "works in education".

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Waxing for Little Girls?

Juliet Linley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Different Cultures, Girls, Self Esteem, Waxing, Motherhood, Teenage Girls, Confidence, Cultural Differences, Teenagers, Healthy Living News
Juliet Linley

Is it necessary to start caring about aesthetics at such a young age of seven or eight? It seems excessive to take such a young girl to have her leg hair removed. A difference in opinions.

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Eunhee Jung O'Neill's Center for International Virtual Schooling

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Kindergarten, Good Neighbors, Long-Distance Learning, Information and Communication Technology, Center for International Virtual Schooling, Eunhee Jung, Seoul, Leogane, 9/11, International Virtual Elementary/Secondary Classroom Activities, Thought Leaders, Instructional Technology, Seoul National University, Intercultural Competence, Global Citizens, Gwangju National University of Education, English Language, Cottage Lane Elementary School, Virginia, Oiww, Muslim, Electronic Exchange Program, Middle East, Jim Luce, E.S.L., Cross-Cultural Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Africa, Latin America, Mobile Phone Technology, South East Asia, Gwangju Elementary School in Korea, Haiti, New York, Video Streaming, South Korea, Underdeveloped Countries, Distant Learning Association, Orphans International Worldwide, Charlottesville, U.N. General Assembly Resolution, Cultural Differences, Iveca, Impact News
Jim Luce

Eunhee Jung O'Neill, Ph.D., is interested in long-distance learning, specifically about cultures. Eunhee is the founder and director of International Virtual Elementary/Secondary Classroom Activities.

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Study Reveals That Women In Western States Breastfeed More Than Eastern States

hosted.ap.org | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control, Breastfeeding, Baby Formula, East Coast, Western States, Breastfeeding in Public, Colorado, Cdc, Denver, Hispanic, Cultural Differences, Denver News

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Tempus Fugit: The Oddity Known as "Hispanic Time"

Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hispanic Time, Latinos, Punctuality, Hispanics, Moving, Cultural Differences, Christmas, Healthy Living News
Daniel Cubias

It is a cultural trademark of Latinos that we run late, or flake on deadlines, or just wander in at some point during the party.

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That Chinese Sperm Bank Photo: You've Been Shanghaied

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sperm Donors, Lies, Gender Stereotypes, Chinese, Sperm, Chinese Sperm Banks, Stereotypes, Hoaxes, Sperm-Banks, Asians, Chinese Culture, Ethnocentric, Racial Stereotypes, Asia, Memes, China, Happy Ending Massage, Cultural Differences, Asian Sperm Bank, Asian Sperm Bank Photo, Shanghai-China, Media News
Disgrasian

I conducted a little investigation and found that this picture first surfaced on the interwebz in late 2008, and it was immediately dismissed as a hoax by officials at Renji Hospital in Shanghai.

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Americans Are Not the Luckiest People on Earth

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cultural Drinking Patterns, David Seaton, Spain, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Christopher Ryan, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Drinking, Woody Allen, World News
Stanton Peele

Spanish social life is an endless round of weddings, baptisms, pub crawls with friends and late dinners with lively conversation into the wee hours over the ruins of a well irrigated, meals.

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