Living Cross-Culturally
Soon into our overseas assignment, it became clear that all of the academic, practical, and language study preparation had not completely equipped me for the task of understanding people in a cross-cultural setting. Moreover, I discovered all of the university and...
Promises
So many promises!  Last year I took a flight from DFW to Birmingham to visit some of my wife’s family.  While en route, I glanced through the flight magazine and noticed the many advertisements and promises from businesses and companies. A few of those...
Immanuel
Several years ago, I was in a conference and one participant thought that American culture was superior to all other cultures. What I saw that day was ethnocentrism — an attitude and position that assumes everything revolves around one’s particular cultural...