This is a summer re-run . . . one of our favorite episodes: Rubber Time or Slaves to the Clock. Yvonne, Joseph and Ishita explore cultural differences in the experience of time—including Edward Hall’s monochronic time vs. polychronic time. We hear about time logics in India, Dutch parents regulating their children’s schedule, and about a late date in Mexico! We’ll be back next time with the start of Season 4!
Is the Deep Culture Podcast “digging deeper” into culture and mind? Is it exploring complexity and challenging conventional wisdom? Yvonne van der Pol and Joseph Shaules share their thoughts and choice excerpts as they look back on Season 3, including: Daniel Glinz’s view that there’s “no such thing as a global citizen”; the podcast team’s feeling that many intercultural trainers are wrong about ethnocentrism, and; Zeina Matar’s reflections on the complexity of being a cultural bridge person.
People say “Don’t stereotype!” But this is impossible because stereotypes are a natural part of our mental and social functioning. Join Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray as they explore the cognitive complexity of stereotypes, including the difference between innocent and aggressive stereotypes—differentiation and otherizing. We also hear from Emre Seven, Daniel Glinz and Zeina Matar about the challenges and occasional pleasures faced by cultural bridge people navigating a world full of stereotypes.
We often hear we should develop “intercultural competence”. But what does this mean? Is this a single quality or a range of abilities? In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Daniel Glinz dig into this buzzword. They find competing definitions and idealistic assumptions. They explore the gap between the idea of intercultural competence, and the messy reality of intercultural situations. And they discuss the transformative potential of cultural learning from the brain-mind perspective.
Where do your feelings of right and wrong come from? Are values shaped by culture? In this episode, Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray explore the hidden cultural “logics” of values. They discuss three approaches to understanding cultural values, argue that from the brain-mind perspective values are a feeling, and that moral intuitions are part of our animal nature . . . but reflect culture as well.
