We need no language to laugh

Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a...

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn’t that sad to judge others with our standards… rather than appreciate them?

Life is meant to be shared. We need each other.

Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ – Cultural Intelligence.

I have hunger.” That’s what real French people say. I think it’s neat how French people have hunger, but they aren’t hungry like Americans are. I mean, it’s a lot easier to try not to...

Nabir came out to drive the children away, but she stopped him. “I like to be friendly she said.” “But they are not your friends,” said Nabir. “You don’t know them.” “Respect first,” Nabir would...

Put ’em who threaten possessions and power together with ’em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who’re touched, put ’em in asylums. Pack off old ones to ‘senior communities,’ nursing homes. Our...

How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it

You have no tail!” said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson.”How do you manage?

The Swedes have coined the term ‘management by perkele’ to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the...

there is very little ‘of course’ when it comes to custom

Let us dedicate this new era to mothers around the world, and also to the mother of all mothers — Mother Earth. It is up to us to keep building bridges to bring the world...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation...

I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

In WASP families, if you don’t get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

Wherever you travel to, appreciate the culture and beauty of the place.

Despite the real danger of malaria, a wide swath of people of every age and education level and nationality all around the world imagine mosquito nets to be ‘confining’ and ‘suffocating;’ most others refuse to...

Thank God for immigrants. They’re the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are “evolving” past. I don’t know what they’re saying, but...

Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. […] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward...

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one’s culture and conditioning.