Intercultural training is becoming more important than we might have imagined and in todays borderless world, where cultures increasingly connect and collide, the art of finding distinctive or even unique characteristics of any national culture is…
Universities are diverse spaces. Their students are of different races and religions; belong to different socioeconomic groups and are even geographically different: some come from cities, others from rural areas and still more from completely…
The academic discipline of psychology was developed largely in North America and Europe. Some would argue it’s been remarkably successful in understanding what drives human behaviour and mental processes; which have long been thought to be universal….
One of the first impressions we get when we set foot in a new culture is how different things are. We spot the obvious first: the buildings, the language, the food, the air. As we unpack our bags…
How different cultures deal with failure and learn from it, is in many cases the key to success. Yet understanding failure, and the way it is perceived, is important when working in a cross-cultural environment. Different…
