Culture in the Blender

While waiting at O’Hare recently, I made the mistake of walking into a bookstore to spend some time. (I don’t have gold status with any frequent flyer program, since I fly so little, so I can’t wait in a lounge.) I call it a mistake, because I’m almost incapable of walking into a bookstore without [...]

These past few days, I’ve been discussing religion with my mother. We’ve been talking about the cultural differences in how religion is approached in the United States compared to Sweden and Finland. She is Christian and I’m an atheist. However, what we mean – and especially the implications – aren’t what they mean here in [...]

Most of my mental capacity at the moment is going into being mad about and trying to understand the sexist behavior of someone at work. A fact that I think is highly relevant – and is currently being suppressed – is that the man in question is from a society that is generally known to [...]