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How To Learn About A Culture Without Knowing Its Language?
Learning a new language can be challenging. Is it worth learning the language to know a culture?
Ling Ling, Tai
Intercultural Psychologist. PhD Student @ ISCTE-IUL. Learning & Development. I lived in 8 countries. Vegan-at-home. Vipassana meditator.
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Ling's Letters #004: 25 de Abril Sempre!
The 25th of April has a special place in the hearts of all Portuguese.
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How Can Asian Leaders Adapt To New Cultures?
Leadership is in the eyes of the beholder. How can leaders in Asia elevate to become global leaders?
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How To Connect Effectively Across Different Cultures Online?
Making friends and building relationships with people from different cultures is challenging enough. How do you do this online?
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Colourful Or Colour-Blindness? Which is the Best Approach To Address Racial Issues?
Whether you recognise a person by their race (or not) has advantages and disadvantages. Knowing this can help you better tailor your diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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We All Do This But Nobody Is Talking About It. Covering.
Everyone covers. People cover to tone down a disfavoured identity to fit into the mainstream. What do you cover?
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Equity And Equality Are Different. We Need Both.
Equity and equality have been used interchangeably, so much so that it can get confusing. But are they the same?
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Help someone in need. Be an Active Bystander.
You were passing by and noticed a stranger being harassed. What do you do? The choice to intervene defines whether you are an active or passive bystander.
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Aren't Generalisations And Stereotypes The Same?
Generalisations and stereotypes may seem very similarโbut are they? It is important to define them, especially when meeting someone from a different culture.
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Is The Onion Better Than the Iceberg?
Both the Cultural Onion and the Iceberg model have been used to describe and understand various cultural groups. Which do you prefer?
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Ling's Letters #003: Dancing with the Storm.๐๐ป
Life can be a battle, or a dance. Which will you choose?
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What's The Big Deal With Social Diversity?
"The presence of difference" is one of the many definitions of diversity. In other words, a group of things or people with variation.