Japan Intercultural Institute

Episode 67 – Rerun: Ethnocentrism

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:35:49 +0000

Episode 66 – Third Culture Kids: Superheroes or Lost Toys?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:12:33 +0000

Episode 65 – Culture and Leadership

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:32:16 +0000

Episode 64 – Are you a native speaker?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:50:58 +0000

Episode 63 – (Rerun) Gender and Culture: Expectations

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:30:04 +0000

Episode 62 – Tightness and Looseness

Japan Intercultural Institute — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:27:50 +0000

Episode 61 – Is Culture Real?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:16:42 +0000

Episode 60 – What Happened to the Global Village?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:37:14 +0000

Episode 59 – Summer rerun: What makes a home a home?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:10:28 +0000

Episode 58 – Deep Questions

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:22:13 +0000

Episode 57 – Personality and Culture—Deep Connections

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:35:41 +0000

Episode 56 – Culture, Scarcity and Flourishing

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:18:30 +0000

Episode 55: Evolution: How Culture Made Us Human

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:44:58 +0000

Episode 54 – Love Across Cultures

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 08:03:19 +0000

Episode 53 – Language Learning: More than a Code

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 13:34:59 +0000

Episode 52 – Culture and Religion (Part 2): Navigating Worldviews

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 06:25:50 +0000

Episode 51: Culture and Religion (Part 1): Starting Conversations

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:49:19 +0000

Are you a believer? 84% of the world’s population identifies with religion, yet intercultural education barely mentions the topic. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray explore the connection between culture and religion. We learn how culture shapes attitudes towards secular and religious values from: Sanne Bosma, Emre Seven, Torhild Liane Harr Skarnes, Luan Borges de Carvalho, and P. V Satyanarayana Raju. Religious studies scholar David Shaules argues that religion and culture are closely related, and that secular values do not magically make us neutral. In Part 2, we will hear the experiences of those navigating in and between religious and secular worldviews.

Episode 50 – Expanding Your Circle of Empathy

Japan Intercultural Institute — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:30:16 +0000

Episode 49 – The Psychology of Cultural Misunderstanding

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:40:38 +0000

Episode 48 – Beyond WEIRD (Pt 2): Deep Culture Learning

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:53:53 +0000

Ep. 47 Summer Re-run: Tagore, Empathy and the Other

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 10:14:43 +0000

Episode 46 – Beyond WEIRD (Part 1): Approaches to Intercultural Education

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 06:40:55 +0000

Episode 45 – Who Needs Intercultural Education?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:02:57 +0000

Episode 44 – Gender and Culture: Expectations

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 May 2024 11:17:53 +0000

Proxemics–Your Space or Mine?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 06:19:36 +0000

Episode 42 – Cultural Intuitions and the Feel-good Fallacy

Japan Intercultural Institute — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 11:50:39 +0000

Episode 41 – Motivation and Culture

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 09:52:28 +0000

Episode 40 – Cultural Explorer Franz Boas

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:27:59 +0000

Episode 39 – Culture and the Unconscious Mind

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 06:07:33 +0000

Episode 38 – Transformation and the Road Less Traveled

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:15:20 +0000

Episode 37 – Tagore, Empathy and the Other

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:29:11 +0000

Episode 36 – Edward Hall Ahead of His Time

Japan Intercultural Institute — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:50:39 +0000

Episode 35 – Re-run: Rubber Time or Slaves to the Clock?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:46:54 +0000

Episode 34 – Thoughts on Season 3

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 10:29:45 +0000

Episode 33 – Stereotypes!

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:59:22 +0000

Episode 32 – What is Intercultural Competence?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Mon, 15 May 2023 06:06:24 +0000

Episode 31 – Values

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 03:08:21 +0000

Episode 30 – Ethnocentrism

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 06:01:00 +0000

Episode 29 – Culture and Emotion

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:04:37 +0000

Episode 28 – The Complexity of Culture

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 22:40:02 +0000

Episode 27 – Are you a Global Citizen?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:48:58 +0000

Episode 26 – The Trouble With Cultural Difference

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 21:04:31 +0000

Joseph Shaules and Yvonne van der Pol explore why it can be so hard to talk about culture and measure cultural difference. They discuss three ways of looking at culture . . . as being, doing, and seeing. They discuss “classic” research into cultural difference (e.g. Hofstede) and argue that brain-mind sciences are shedding new light on cultural difference and can help us make better sense of our intercultural experiences.

Episode 25 – My Comfort Zone

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 07:21:45 +0000

Episode 24 – Are you WEIRD?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:13:46 +0000

Episode 23 – Best of Season 2

Japan Intercultural Institute — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:25:35 +0000

Episode 22 – Culture and the Self

Japan Intercultural Institute — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:52:25 +0000

Episode 21 – Culture in the Cradle

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 15 May 2022 05:55:35 +0000

Episode 20 – What makes home a home?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Sun, 17 Apr 2022 08:18:28 +0000

Episode 19 – Why do we think differently?

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 02:13:07 +0000

Episode 18 – Culture Shock

Japan Intercultural Institute — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:34:23 +0000