Why Don’t Westerners Eat Off One Plate?
Time spent with hunter-gatherers in Tanzania offers a sharp contrast to “normal” social behaviors in the West.
Why Don’t Westerners Eat Off One Plate?
Cultural Relativity
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Humanity’s Surprising Variety of Approaches to Toilet Training
Don’t worry, parents. When it comes to potty training, you almost can’t go wrong.
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How Have Attitudes Toward Extremism Changed Over Time?
Language exerts a powerful influence on our perceptions of the world. Looking closely at the way we use words can reveal deep-seated cultural biases.
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Do You See What I See?
Cultural groups throughout the world talk about color differently—some don’t even have a word for color. So is color perception a universal human experience or not?
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The Night I Was Attacked by a Ghost
Dreaming is an essential part of the way humans learn. But what happens when we dream while immersed in a foreign culture?
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The Double Life of Kale
The current kale craze in the United States might sound downright crazy to East Africans.