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

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 59 - Summer rerun: What makes a home a home?
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Where is home? Living between cultural worlds can make it hard to answer this question. In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray discuss what makes a home a home, including the “bridge person dilemma”—how foreign experiences can make us feel unrooted. We discuss the adjustment challenges of third-culture kids and cultural marginality. We reflect on those who lose a home because of conflict or other disasters. Podcast contributor Zeina Matar shares her experience of loving . . . and losing . . . her home in Lebanon.

Episode 58 – Deep Questions

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 58 - Deep Questions
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How do we choose topics for the Deep Culture Podcast? In this last episode of season 5, the whole team gets together to look back at the themes we explored. We recount meaningful moments from recent episodes, the stories that touched us, and the insights that got us thinking. And we share the geeky research that has us excited for episodes to come. Featuring: Joseph Shaules, Ishita Ray, Emre Seven, Sanne Bosma, and Torhild Liane Haars Skarnes and other contributors from this season. 

Episode 57 – Personality and Culture—Deep Connections

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 57 - Personality and Culture—Deep Connections
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Are you a different person when speaking another language? Does being bicultural mean you have two personalities? In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Torhild Liane Skårnes Harr explore the challenges of being true to yourself and adjusting to different cultural worlds. Emre Seven, Sanne Bosma and Ishita Ray share stories about adjustment stresses and uncommon connections.

Episode 56 – Culture, Scarcity and Flourishing

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 56 - Culture, Scarcity and Flourishing
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Do you have enough? Are you happy? These questions are difficult to answer both in everyday life and across cultures. In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray dive into the psychology of scarcity and flourishing. We learn how feelings of scarcity affects cognitive function, and shape cultural communities. We look at research into life satisfaction in different countries, and hear stories about navigating between worlds of scarcity and abundance from: Mahel Rolando Caballero Ramirez; Torhild Liane Harr Skårnes; Sanne Bosme and husband Armen; and Emre Seven.  

Episode 55: Evolution: How Culture Made Us Human

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 55: Evolution: How Culture Made Us Human
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Why do we have weak stomachs and big brains? How is our cognition different from chimpanzees? Join Ishita Ray and Joseph Shaules as they explore how culture has shaped genetic evolution. Millions of years ago, as culture became increasingly key to human survival, a chain reaction of culture-genetic evolution reshaped our body, brain and mind—culture made us human. Based on the work of evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich.