Episode 63 – (Rerun) Gender and Culture: Expectations

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 63 - (Rerun) Gender and Culture: Expectations
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We are rerunning this episode with a new intro and information about teaching materials! Is gender cultural? Oddly, gender is rarely mentioned in intercultural education, even though expectations about being a man or woman vary widely around the world. Join Joseph Shaules, Yvonne van der Pol and Ishita Ray as they explore cultural assumptions about gender. Emre Seven and Zeina Matar share their experiences navigating different gender worlds, and we also learn about research into gender attitudes.

Episode 62 – Tightness and Looseness

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 62 - Tightness and Looseness
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Is it okay to kiss on a bus? Some societies are more strict about social norms—they are more tight—whereas others are more loose. In this episode, Joseph Shaules, Torhild Liane Haars Skarnes and Sanne Bosma discuss research into tightness and looseness. We compare the rankings of different countries, including some we find surprising. We argue that the key to navigating foreign norms is learning the values behind them, and we hear stories from Emre Seven, Yuto Aki, Vanessa Eisenberg, Hashini Madarasinge, Albert Mhangami and Ishita Ray.

Episode 61 – Is Culture Real?

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 61 - Is Culture Real?
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Cross-cultural researcher Geert Hofstede famously said “Culture does not exist”. He saw culture is an abstraction—a statistical construct to label group tendencies. In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray contrast this view with the many ways in which culture is embodied with us. We learn about embodied cognition and hear stories about our deeply cultural nature from Sanne Bosma, Emre Seven, Albert Mhangami, Hashini Madarasinge and Yuto Aki. 

Episode 60 – What Happened to the Global Village?

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Japan Intercultural Institute
Episode 60 - What Happened to the Global Village?
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What happened to the global village?  Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray compare the original vision of a unified global village with the realities of today’s fragmented digital world. They explore the psychological impact of virtual interaction, and compare it with life in a real village. We hear about navigating the complexities of today’s global village, and how to achieve deeper forms of intercultural understanding, from podcast contributors: Yuto Aki, Skirmantė Cairns, Vanessa Eisenberg, Hashini Madarasinge, Albert Mhangami, Sanne Bosma, Torhild Liane Haar Skarnes and Emre Seven. 

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.