Introductions to Culture Clusters

Dear readers, Those of you who’ve been following this blog for the past few months might…

If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired. -…

This Proto-Indo-European term ghosti referred to a kind of unspoken etiquette, a notion that on…

I had forgotten how gently time passes in Paris. As lively as the city is,…

I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on…

But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a…

The Swedish system is best understood not in terms of socialism, but in terms of…

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon…

India lives in several centuries at the same time. - Arundhati Roy, Power Politics -   After the Anglo-…

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. - Confucius - The shame-based Confucian-Asia…

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. -…