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Needing Friends In Other Cultures

What does friendship mean in your culture? How do you recognize that someone is your friend? I[…]

Cross-Cultural Friendship

Last month, Internations released the results of their Expat Insider 2025 Survey. Sweden did really well on[…]

KPop Demon Immigrants

The common wisdom for entrepreneurs is to provide our customer base with content that answers their questions,[…]

Back to School

7 Suggestions for Back to Lund University

I share Lund, the beautiful, small, old city where I live and work, with nearly 140,000 residents.[…]

Culture Shock Never Ends

Last summer, my 65+ year-old father collapsed his way toward me in the airport arrivals hall. He[…]

Cultural Perspective Matters

A recent meeting with a potential client finally reached the point which most such meetings inevitably do.[…]

Assimilating Afrikaners

Exploring assimilation in light of current events Big news out of my home country, the United States[…]

The Easiest Way to Sound More Fluent in English

I chose the title for this blog post to get the algorithm’s attention, but I have to[…]

Cutting Funny

Funnily Enough…

I guess whoever made the product in this photo imagined children having hours, or at least minutes,[…]

Communication

Communication = Words + Culture

A few months ago, an ad appeared in Stockholm metro stations from Elixir Pharma touting their new[…]