cross-culture Tag Posts Index

My favorite food

If you were asked about your favorite food, would you give an answer to it right away, or would you spend some time thinking about your favorite food? For some it’s

Culture: A Way Of Life

Growing up in Nigeria I heard the same definition of culture over and over again: “Culture is the way of life of a people.” It was in every social studies class,

Embracing My Heritage, Adopting Others: A Cultural Blend

If there were a way I could go back to those days in my childhood stage when nothing else mattered to me but learning our cultural dance, then a lot of memories

A Stroll in Damascus, Syria

When I entered Syria for the first time the government had just fallen. It was the middle of December and everywhere you looked there was uncertainty and a good

Our Stay at Azana Garden Hill Resort Blora / Unser Aufenthalt bei Azana Garden Hill Resort Blora

English Deutsch Hello dear Hiveians, I'm here again with the next post about our family trip to my hometown in Indonesia last month. I came from a small village

Road trip across Java-Indonesia with the train / Eine Bahnreise durch Java in Indonesien

English Hello dear Hiveians, today I'm back again with the first journal of our trip to Indonesia that ended just last week. I always thought of Philippine as a

Overthrowing the Government and Coffee!

I don't mean to brag, but I managed to topple 50+ years of authoritarian rule with my partner in December... Okay, that might not be TOTALLY true, I'll leave that

The Matching Outfit

One of the common interesting lifestyle many families exhibit is in choice of clothing. Not necessarily the style of the clothing but in wearing matching outfits.

Preserving Heritage: Key Customs in Igbo Marriage Ceremonies - LOH #219

Marriage is celebrated all over the world, with each culture having its unique style of celebration reflecting its values, customs, and beliefs. In my own culture

Healthy Culture That Promotes Unity

Compliment of the season to to everyone in this community and beyond. Christmas is a special event that is felt almost all over the world. There is one thing that

Our Christmas Traditions

There are stories of people or families who have Christmas Day traditions. It could be eating a particular food first on that day or doing something considered as

Weaving the World Together through culture and language.

It's believe that no culture or language originated on it own rather it was parented by one or two culture and language and seperation or migration of the people

Culture: Carrying Babies On The Back

One of the ways many African mothers carry their babies is by using wrappers or a piece of clothe to back then. This method has been passed from generation to

Food And Marriage - Managing The Differences

I find marriage to be a world of endless discoveries, and that's fascinating. It is even more interesting when different cultures and upbringing exist between the

Mistake double post

Sorry mistaken double post

Adventures around the Amalfi Coast, Italy

It looks like I have already covered the major destinations we hit while in Italy last summer. Since we were with family and young kids there were some days that

Across the Bay for a Day in Napoli

Is it Naples or Napoli? I just had to do a Google search to double-check. One of my best friends who used to live here in Ghana is from Napoli and he always says

African Internet Outage and Last Week's Photo-shoot

Wow I am surprised that I am even able to write a post. It has been a trying couple of weeks and it only went from worse to horrible last week. Where I am in Ghana

African Internet Outage and Last Week's Photo-shoot

Wow I am surprised that I am even able to write a post. It has been a trying couple of weeks and it only went from worse to horrible last week. Where I am in Ghana

African Internet Outage and Last Week's Photo-shoot

Wow I am surprised that I am even able to write a post. It has been a trying couple of weeks and it only went from worse to horrible last week. Where I am in Ghana