cross cultural

Urmi Hossain grew up between two worlds — Bengali and Italian — where love and relationships were not just different in each culture, but at times even opposing.

For Guatemalan-born, cross-cultural singer-songwriter David Lindes, moving to the U.S.A. at 9 years old wasn’t the picnic he thought it would be.

Kevin Olusola, one-fifth of the Grammy-winning a capella group Pentatonix, says he’s felt “misunderstood” his whole life.

“Ultimate Bias” is a short film touring the festival circuit this year about multi-ethnic students attending a Japanese immersion school in Northern Virginia, U.S.A. that hopes to educate and spotlight how unconscious bias happens based upon how someone looks, versus who they are inside.

As a child, Afghan American author Toba Adina-Jao dreaded peeling clove after clove of garlic.

Netflix’s short film “Anuja” tells the story of a gifted nine-year-old girl, alongside her sister Palak, as they work in a back-alley garment factory in India.

Find out how cultural exchange students benefit from this program by developing skills such as extension world views, language mastery and culture sensitivity as well as advancing their job prospects.

In “Reach!,” written by Lisa Gammon Olson and illustrated by Lauren Rutledge, nine babies of all ethnicities grow up on a balance beam high above the clouds.