Meeting and Parting: The Reality of Life
Human life is in continuous movement. It cannot remain static...meeting and parting are in fact two faces of the same coin that is life.
Saying “I love you” across cultures: Personal intimacy in High/Low Context Cultures
Love and its expression may be the single most significant and universal aspect of human experience, yet it is also one of the most diverse and varied in its cultural…
Shame Cultures, Guilt Cultures, and Fear Cultures: Social Ethics and Professional Ethics, East and West
The well-known distinction between “shame-cultures” and “guilt cultures” was popularized by anthropologist Ruth Benedict in her book The Chrysanthemum and the Sword in 1946 but...
Life, Death, and Everything in Between: Science, Mortality and Meaning Across Cultures
The United Nations’ World Happiness Rankings is always an interesting vantage point from which to make inter-cultural comparisons between societies that, on one hand, embrace the commercial/secular/materialistic values and, on the other hand...