Global Culture
The Evolution of Cross-Cultural Trainings
“Since cross-cultural preparation is widely accepted to improve expatriate performance and 83% respondents believe it has good or great value, the lack of a practice that makes the benefit mandatory is disappointing.” Brookfield Relocation Report I have been an expat […]
Wired for Connection – Improving Expat Adjustment
Scientific evidence is piling up that we’re indeed social animals. No matter what your personality type, your brain will light up when you feel like you don’t fit in, or when you’re being excluded. In international settings, this social pain […]
VIDEO: Hidden Diversity – Growing up Multi-cutural May Not Look Like You Expect Part 3
We continue with the final of a three-part series on Sydney Shalz’s intercultural modern family and how growing up in that family has affected her world view. “It was much different for me because I grew up in white America […]
PART III The Big Waste: Where we go from here
Although the issue of food waste around the world is still very prevalent, food providers and distributers are starting to take a stance. Here’s a new company that has decided to take this issue by storm and do something about it. […]
Lesbian North Carolina Couple Goes Viral
Melanie and Vanessa Iris Roy, a beautiful lesbian couple from North Carolina, made news last week when a picture they posted on Melanie’s Instagram account went viral. A sweet picture of the pair, kissing on the beach shows them happily […]
Part I of III: Food Waste Around the World
This is a 3-part series covering food waste around the world and what people in the media and in businesses are doing to eliminate the large amount of waste. Strolling through the brightly lit aisles, you find yourself indulging in […]
The Hierarchy of expats: A lesson in tolerance
“These Turks in Germany, they’re not interested in getting integrated. They have their own shops and their own districts and they don’t even know German”- my German father-in-law says sometimes. I don’t want to argue with him. After a while, […]
VIDEO: Oscars’ #sowhite: A Multicultural Perspective Part 1
Culturs had the opportunity to sit down with a panel of four highly educated women, (from left to right) Elissa Hope, Christine Manzanares, Ashley Moore and Latoya Noel, to talk about the timely topic of diversity in the Oscars and […]















