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SERIES – PART 3 OF 3 : How Global Culture is a Personal Concept – Naomi Hattaway
Naomi Hattaway “I think culture is imperative.” In the previous article, we featured Terri Mairley and how culture played a role in her children’s lives. In this article, Naomi Hattaway takes the stage on her experiences and how they shaped her concept […]
Series – Part 3 of 3: Culture Without Boundaries
Throughout this three part series, you will see Pamela Blattner’s journey from ignoring her Peruvian heritage to becoming confident as a blended Latina. First, in part one, you explored her upbringing where she tried to fit into the molds of […]
SERIES, PART II OF III = Love & Ohana: The Story of an Unstoppable Cross-Cultured Family
In the previous article, Rasha Pecoraro discussed what it is like being a white Hawaiian native, and how her mother, Fauna Hodel, taught her to spread love throughout her life. Now, we feature Pecoraro’s older sister, Yvette Gentile, an internationally […]
Love Across Cultures: A Moroccan TCA Story
TCK children often follow in the wake of their parent’s career, experiencing and living in new cultures as their parent’s job demands. This is not so with Amanda Ponzio-Mouttaki’s children. Mouttaki is a curious mom whose love of travel and […]
VIDEO: Connecting Cultures through Dance: The Israel-Palestine Conflict – Part 3
In the third and final segment of this Cultures TV series talking to Kayla Banks on her “Eye for an Eye” dance piece, Culturs will discuss with Banks how connection is everywhere, especially in this piece. “Eye for an Eye” […]
Cross-Culture Apparel Design is Like Riding a Motorcycle Without a Helmet
Dr. Diane Sparks is a professor in the Department of Design and Merchandising who specializes in teaching classes in the focus areas of apparel design, textile design, and using computer-aided design (CAD) in apparel design. When she is not teaching […]
Hidden Diversity Across Different Races and Cultures: ‘But You’re Not Really Asian?’
Pico goes to India. Pico looks Indian. Pico gets classified as Indian. But Pico is British. In The Road Home, a short film by Rahul Gandotra, Pico a ten-year-old British boy attends Woodstock boarding school in the Himalayas. He is a […]
More Culture, Less Clothing: Fashion’s Global Repuation
When you first think of the word “fashion,” the first thing that comes to mind is probably high-priced, sometimes hideous clothing, on rail-thin models acting as lifeless, emotionless hangers. Am I wrong? The more I become immersed in the fashion […]
