Episode 16 – A Conversation with Bob Whiting

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Episode 16 - A Conversation with Bob Whiting
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In this episode, Joseph sat down with Bob Whiting, the best-selling author (e.g. The Chrysanthemum and the Bat; You gotta have Wa; Tokyo Underworld) who has made a career of finding cross-cultural insight in unexpected places—like baseball and the Japanese underworld. His new memoir is Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys . . . and Baseball. It recounts his remarkable intercultural journey – his small town roots; his 60-year love affair with Tokyo; his cross-cultural writing career, and how he learned to feel at home between cultural worlds.

Episode 15: Rubber Time or Slaves to the Clock?

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Episode 15: Rubber Time or Slaves to the Clock?
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They are always late! They are slaves to the clock! Joseph Shaules and Yvonne van der Pol explore cultural stereotypes about time. They discuss Edward Hall’s monochronic time and polychronic time, the embodied and embedded nature of time, and Ishita Ray shares her experiences with time logics in India. And you can take a quiz to test your own time logic!

Episode 14 – Cultural Resistance and the Eternal Tourist

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Episode 14 - Cultural Resistance and the Eternal Tourist
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In this episode Joseph Shaules and Ishita Ray explore the “eternal tourist” phenomenon—people who resist cultural difference they experience abroad. Ishita talks about the resistance she encountered when moving to France from India. Joseph talks to Jack – who spent years in Tokyo but still doesn’t speak Japanese. Joseph shares his research into common patterns of resistance. Brain and mind science reminds us that resistance is natural—we all do it—and that we all have cognitive biases that can trigger resistance.

Episode 13 – Deep Culture: You can’t get that from Wikipedia!

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Episode 13 - Deep Culture: You can’t get that from Wikipedia!
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Joseph Shaules and Yvonne van der Pol are back for season two! They discuss the hidden power of deep culture—unconscious cultural knowledge that is powerful because we don’t notice it. We hear about deep culture experiences from the podcast team—Ishita Ray’s surprise at how her French colleagues ordered food; Zeina Matar’s visit to her mother’s hometown—and the sheep that was almost sacrificed; how Daniel Glinz met his Japanese girlfriend’s parents for the first time, and what  shocked him about their behavior. We also learn how brain-mind research can help us understand the hidden power of deep culture.  

Episode 12 – Cultural Bridge People

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Episode 12 - Cultural Bridge People
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In this last episode of Season 1, Joseph Shaules and Yvonne van der Pol explore what is means to be a cultural bridge person – someone who navigates  between cultural worlds. It can be an adventure but it can create challenges and difficult choices as well. We’ll hear the personal stories of different bridge people, look back on the first season of the Deep Culture Podcast, reflect on the vision of Edward T. Hall, and look forward to Season 2.