The SIETAR Berlin group invited me to talk about the Absolutely Intercultural podcast on Nov 18th and the recording is below. The conversation proper doesn’t start until about four minutes in and lasts about 15 minutes. The next speaker was Dr Abdulhamied Almoraithy about using multimedia in the Arab World for intercultural learning which starts at [...]
I was very honoured to be invited to participate in the annual Managing Cultural Diversity Seminar at Rhein Ahr campus once again this year. Photos of the event are here and here. As ever there was a grand diversity of topics from finding out the diversity of ways in which we can greet each other [...]
Great infographic illustrating the meaning of colours in different cultures. People seem to agree on the colour of anger and surrender! Embed the above image on your site Direct Link via
I experienced two critical incidents in the space of two hours today, one positive and one negative. Let’s start with the bad news. I was at the checkout in the supermarket when the checkout operator became aware of a smell. Looking around I discovered that the lid of a jar of tandoori paste I had [...]
Jan 072011
Apps are small programs that you can download to your mobile phone, tablet or mp3 player. There are thousands of them and I suddenly became curious whether there were any to do with intercultural communication. I did a bit of research and found three which I reviewed in the latest Absolutely Intercultural show. Thanks to Evan [...]
It was great to be invited back to an annual event at the RheinAhr Campus of Fachhochschule Koblenz in Germany, their Managing Cultural Diversity seminar, which is open to all the students of the university who wish to spend a weekend thinking about how to internationalise themselves by taking a semester abroad or by applying [...]
My neice went through a phase of telling everyone ‘You’re weird!’ when she was about 7 years old and according to this research she may have been right. WEIRD stands for Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic which describes a very small proportion of the world’s population. Why does this matter? Because along with the [...]