On Culture Shock- Or how I just might die of dysentery

I should premise this article by saying that there is little I love more than traveling and experiencing new cultures, but I'd be lying if I said it was always easy. Mexico has been no exception.

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Tech. Sgt.

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Andrian Gherbovet, a 20-year-old native of the Republic of Moldova, has found many things difficult since he arrived in May to spend the summer as a lifeguard at an Alexandria condominium complex. Getting a ticket to the consumer economy wasn't one of them.

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Parents all over the world want what's best for their children--they just have different ways of showing it.

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For six months after starting a new job a few years ago, project-management executive Lyria Charles didn't check her email over the weekend. Finally, a colleague explained that employees were expected to read email over the weekend. "I didn't know," she says. "No one told me."

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In Germany, Islam is often equated with fundamentalism and fanaticism, a perception that imposes a heavy burden on the country's 3 million Muslims.

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The wrong end of the stick

One of the great things about living outside of your own culture is that you're never bored. On a daily basis some muddle or misunderstanding crops up which threatens to undermine your whole existence unless you solve it right this minute. Like yesterday for example.

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Jaron Lanier, who popularised the virtual reality concept in the early 1980s, says that in rush to forge a new age of collectivism, we risk losing individual identities and dumbing down our understanding of the world.

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Cocks that coo

WHY are they always making so much noise, yelling into their cell phones, blowing their horns, talking so loudly to each other that it seems to be almost a fight? This is a common gripe of westerners in China. To understand somewhat, let's use the analogy of the rooster.

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