Happy Thanksgiving!
Ours is a  ’mostly vegetarian’ Thanksgiving because everything is vegan, except for…come closer so I can whisper…except for the turkey in the kitchen, and it’s not the one pardoned by President Obama today.
Our annual family gathering of vegetarians (nothing with a face, but will eat dairy), vegans (no animal products/no harm to animals–my mom even suggested birth control powder for [...]

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Just like a website has the public face and then the ‘behind the scenes techinical side,’ so for Intercultural Parenting there is the social side of raising a child with intercultural awareness and sensitivity, and then there’s Intercultural Parenting–two parents of different cultures parenting together…or more like side-by-side…or is it one after the other?
I just [...]

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I’m always quick to jump on images OF women in media, but here is a great series on breaking down ads targeted to women.  In this critique of yogurt ads, feminist and comedian Sarah Haskins highlights every stereotype of women’s desires/habits possible, from dieting to shopping to shoes. 
If you already knew Sarah Haskins…why didn’t you share!  [...]

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I’ve seen “Blood Diamond.”  I’ve seen the “Migrations:  History in Transition” photography exhibit by Brazilian photojournalist Sabastião Salgado.  I’ve walked through the “Doctors without Borders” traveling “model” refugee camp.  
I’ve even cried looking at the static images of suffering of those poor, poor people displaced and ravaged in far away lands by war and famine.
Leila Chirayath [...]

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Bug Buffet, source foodista.com
Sorry, I know it’s sophomoric, but when I wanted an image to communicate Culture Shock (from a United States/Western European perspective) I couldn’t resist the photo of basically a ‘bug buffet.”  I know I’ve heard they are full of protein, even tasy, but from my own cultural perspective, I don’t see myself [...]

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I was at a dinner party the other night, and I found myself leaning in when the gentlemen with whom I was speaking said he did “communications infrastructure” for a living.  It’s one of those terms that you kind of know what it means, but not really.  You know it’s really important and helps the [...]

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Last year I shared this survey on Language and Identity conducted by Sarah Bunin Benor and Steven M. Cohen from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, so it’s only fitting that I share the just released results.
While I wasn’t surprised to see Yiddish use increase by age, I was surprised to see Hebrew use decrease. 
As a Jew [...]

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As an international ‘travel purist,’ I have to admit I fall into that category that looks with disdain at those eating at McDonald’s when in another country.  “How could they possible travel this far and then eat at…McDonald’s?” I would think with a certain air of superiority.
Well, the joke’s on me!  Especially as a marketer/anthropologist, [...]

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  Let me clarify two things upfront, before explaining my most recent revelation of unconscious bias:

1) Self-revelation of an unconscious bias is the best way to address it and overcome it. It’s like the old AA adage. You have to acknowledge there’s a problem first.
2) I was about to defend my use of the Yiddish [...]

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