Cultural Differences

Bilingual education. It sounded like a great idea to me for a while--especially since I have friends who moved to the U.S. at a young age and described what it was like for them going to school when no one speaks your language, and being forced to learn it really quickly.  Read More »

What do you think of the idea of eating a cat for dinner? How about young boys being taught proper techniques for essentially giving a blow job to an older man to ingest semen in order to become a man? Or leaving your newborn baby on the floor, locked in a room, and waiting for it to die or even smashing your baby against a tree?  Read More »

I was working in a restaurant in my hometown about four or five years ago when a woman who was fascinated with American Indians asked me if I knew of where she could find some “real Indians”. She wanted to see a tribe in action, and specifically wanted her picture taken with an Indian. I informed her that I was Indian. She looked at me in disbelief, as if I were lying about the whole ordeal.  Read More »

Today I would like to share my objective thoughts and feelings regarding poop. Unlike many things in life, poop does not discriminate. Poop applies to the life of everyone- all people have experienced poop. This may seem like an assumption, but studies and personal experience support the idea that poop is vital to our existence.  Read More »

For those who haven't seen my username yet, I'm in China. As a foreign teacher, I love sharing all those obscure cultural tidbits that sometimes don't compute in the minds of my students. Now I'm wondering if I try to play an April Fool's joke on them, say fake a heart attack, will they get it? Is it worth the risk of freaking some of my students out and making them cry?  Read More »

The heat pounded down over the vast expanse of the Masai Mara as the village people quietly mulled about. The elder men of the Masai tribe seemed to have their watchful gazes fixed on the entire community, while the women remained sheltered inside the circle of huts where a sickly sweet aroma arose from the cooking fires.  Read More »