Look: What being a mom can say about a country’s culture. Really cool short video piece from the Atlantic Magazine in which Moms from a dozen different cultures are asked quick questions about what it’s like to live, work and raise children in their native, and in two cases, adoptive countries.
Listen: Having trouble communicating across cultures? Well, according to this Fascinating interview with evolutionary biologist, Mark Pagel, that’s exactly what language was designed to do. From an evolutionary standpoint language was created to foster cooperation within a tribe, while simultaneously making that tribe distinct from--and slightly hostile to--all outside tribes.
Read (and write): Remember that dinner in China when… or that taxi ride in Barcelona that…? Got a good story to tell about travel, work or life abroad? My go-to travel guide is hosting a travel writing competition. The winner gets £2,000, a published article and, who knows, the chance to ditch the corporate life for the exciting (and not particularly lucrative) chance to be a professional travel writer.
