The Prosperous and the Penniless: Jamaican Poverty

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“There’s good and there’s bad here, it’s not a perfect place” Lavish beach-front estates that line the shore are contrasted with brightly patched up shacks and huts. Wealthy hotel owners head home in clean, air conditioned cars while local fisherman […]

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Code Switch or Chameleon? Communication Collides

Kenady Kay 372 0

Code switching is most often used in language and multilingual conversations. But I have found that while I do code switch in conversations with different accents and speech tactics, I also use code switching as a key communication tool between […]

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The Benefits of Boarding School Abroad: The Road Home

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Most would agree that getting to experience life in India while having the Himalayas as your backyard sounds like something off a travelers bucket list. While that might be true, for Pico, the main character in The Road Home, this […]

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PART I: Religious Persecution Today- Myanmar

Sarah Ash 209 0

Barrack Obama, the current president of The United States, recently commented on ISIS during the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 5, and has caused some criticism for his remarks in which he compared the acts of Islamic militant group ISIL, […]

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     Intersectionality of TCKs and LGBTQ+

Kendall McElhaney 364 0

Throughout this entire process of writing for Culturs Magazine, I have been trying to connect the two worlds of Third Culture Kids and Globally Mobile Individuals with that of individuals who identify somewhere on the LGBTQQA+ spectrum. Each week, I […]

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Marvel’s Thor and Norse Mythology

Sarah Ash 505 0

As someone who really enjoys learning about other cultures and spiritual beliefs, I have always felt a little bored when looking at my own background: I was born and grew up in a very white, very “cookie cutter” suburb. I […]

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PART I: Marijuana as a Spiritual Tool

Sarah Ash 447 0

A deeper look into the use of substances in spiritual practice today. How would it feel to be born again? If you had the chance to fade back into the darkness of your mother’s womb, and to experience every human […]

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Crossing Cultures, A TCK Story: Ivan Ross

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I have known Ivan Ross for fifteen years; we grew up seemingly chasing each other around the world, starting in Malaysia, then to Egypt and crossing paths once again in Texas. This can happen quite a bit with TCKs, it […]

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