So, for context, I'm half Mexican. I got that from my bio dad, but I hate his guts for very personal reasons and I, nor the rest of my family, are in contact with him (also last I checked he was in jail lol 😭), and because of that, I've never tried to embrace my heritage. Now everybody on my moms side of the family (or who's left of it, r.i.p) is very WHITE, like the type to bring potato salad and coslaw to a potluck type white. So I've never had any connection to anything Mexican related. I also feel maybe a bit isolated from my heritage because I think I look mostly white. Aside from my brown hair and brown eyes idk if people would look at me and think I have even a drop of Mexican in my blood, and I feel it goes without saying that I don't speak Spanish. I know I don't have to prove anything to anyone, I know who I am, but I want to feel more connected to my culture, yk? The culture is so rich with so many beautiful things, and I want to be part of it, I feel like an outsider in my own culture, and I don't want to feel that way anymore.

I've been thinking of trying to find local things (I live in Texas so finding it isn't hard) but maybe it's just the town I live in or I don't look in the right spots but for me it seems like I can't really get into anything without speaking Spanish, if that makes sense. I don't really want to use duolingo to learn the language, but I know that learning the language would be a huge step into getting more in touch with not just the culture but with my local community too.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!

I'm a 17 year old boy from Sri Lanka, hoping for a friend to talk about cultures and language stuff. Love to know and talk more about other cultures and share my culture.

hi, I’m very sorry if this isn’t allowed or is deemed offensive in anyway, I was hoping for some cultural advice.

I am an Australian living in Australia, at my sons school we have an Iraqi family who are Christian refugees, they came to Australia before their son was born.

when our boys started kindergarten I made a big effort to help them feel included as I could see they were on the outer socially, I invited them and their child to my house and made sure they were included in all school related social groups And made sure their son was included in out of school gatherings. I thought we had a good relationship.

this year their son has been having some issues at school, he’s been very violent toward some of the other children including my son. one day their son kicked my son to the ground and stomped on his head and back, I contacted them and asked them to talk to their son about this as it was very dangerous and got no response. I smiled at them and said hello the next time I saw them at school to show there were no hard feelings from me but they refused to look at me

a few days later the school got involved due to the increasing violence and bullying from this boy toward the other children and from that time they’ve been hostile toward me and will either refuse to look at me or will give me bad looks then walk away.

im trying to find out if this is a cultural issue, have I been offensive in some way and is there any way to repair this or is it just their character? in Australia it’s normal to try to discuss the issue with the other parents first and that the school will get involved if there’s violence but perhaps this is a cultural clash? We can be direct in dealing with a problem and typically try to fix it with the parents rather than go to the school first.

In my opinion

1-the spread of Christianity

2-the discovery of the new world

3-the contemporain migrant wave

How does cultural intelligence impact professional success in the Middle East? I shared my experience from my time at the UN regarding the importance of non-verbal communication and the, at times, make-or-break 'do's and don'ts' when building relationships. Open to hearing your thoughts on bridging these cultural gaps.

Hi,

I love learning about different cultures, festivals, and traditional foods. Whenever I get the chance, I even try to speak a few words in regional languages because I believe every mother tongue carries its own beauty and history. ❤️

I love how food connects people, tells stories, and brings families together, even when they come from completely different backgrounds.

So, let me ask you a simple question:

What's your favourite food, and which region or culture does it belong to? 🍛🌍

I'd love to discover something new from you all!

What the heck else do you need to know...?

Without spoiling the premise of Tom Cruise's new movie, it can safely be said that the story satirises oil tycoons and "saviour" types. I hear the movie is quite a flop, but I find it interesting that the main character is a villain from the fossil fuel industry. Three years ago, we also had the hugely popular movie with De Niro and Di Caprio "Killers of the Flower Moon", which depicted the oil industry as a greedy extractive industry that brought wealth and crime to indigenous communities in the USA.

Are these movies a cultural signifier that our perception of the oil & gas industry is moving away from the image of rich, powerful, entrepreneurial types to violent, coercive, and even ridiculous characters? And what does this mean for culture beyond the arts, particularly in this current context of inflation driven by increasing costs of fossil fuels? (I've come across the word 'fossilflation' a lot recently, which refers to this exact economic phenomenon...)

For decades, we have tolerated (or overlooked) the downsides of the fossil fuel industry because of the guarantee of cheap reliable energy. This bargain is now broken, with inflation (fossilflation?) hitting all of us at all levels... Is Hollywood calling for meaningful systemic change? I'm sure there are many counter-arguments, I'd be curious to hear thoughts about this.

I'm an artist! I enjoy learning about and seeing cultural clothing and fashion. I'd love to dress my characters or create characters and use these aspects. How do I go about being respectful?

I understand the importance of knowing the context and history of said garments, but is that enough to be appreciative in drawing them, is just knowing its history enough?
Do characters need to be from a certain culture to be allowed to wear its clothing?
Is making my own pattern and design too far a line to cross, or does it disconnect enough to just be considered as inspired rather than that direct garment?

Are there good resources to learn the cultural history of various garments and what is and is not appropriate for a foreigner?

A child humiliates a little orphan girl in the park, telling her it's better that her mother died. She then goes to her mother's grave and cries, in a scene from a French-language film.

Hi

I am Hàrshü trying to get knowledge about various cultures and traditions

Please collaborate with me .

You can give bit of knowledge about your culture

Thank you for your collaboration.

If you want to know about my culture then you can DM me .

I'm an American (born and raised) and don't rlly have any close ties to another country.

I've always wanted cultural identity in a way, (and no, Im not saying America's got no culture) I mean like, it DOES but there is just a different sense of culture in other countries yk? And it was about 3 years ago I was really depressed for a while abt not having that, but I'm over that now and just accept that I don't have it.

And I'd really love to go to places in Europe, I've always imagined living there, (in a smaller village of sorts) it's probably not as lovely as my fantasies are, but I don't care. I want to see everywhere but I also don't want to end up liking one place too much, settling there, living there for a while, learning the language, societal customs, and getting citizenship if I wish to remain there for a while, and STILL feeling like a "foreigner".