+CHALLENGE the whitewash with our hybrid ambassadors+

+SPARK with September's recent and enduring bias provocations+

+WITNESS 8,000 years of Istanbul history in our summer web carnival+

+ACT LOCAL with tips from expat+HAREM expeditions+

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The customer is sometimes wrong

Buy locally, think globally is a concept still tough to grasp. I’d rather wait to sell mine to someone who cares about supporting the local makers. [...]

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August 25th, 2010 | Tags: act locally, at-cost, bargain, buy locally, Catherine Salter Bayar, China, clothing industry, consumption, doll, expat+HAREM series, fashion industry, globalization, hand-made, handmade, Istanbul, low price, manufacturing, mass-produced, Mexico, Newly Industrialized, Sultanahmet, think globally, Turkmen, Wal-Mart | Category: American culture, career, community, culture | View Comments

Gender bending with James Chartrand

James Chartrand is head of the web design and copywriting outfit Men With Pens — and he’s a woman. [...]

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August 4th, 2010 | Tags: boy's club, Canada, copywriter, copywriting, credibility, expat+HAREM interview, female traits, freelancer, freelancing, gay, gender bender, gender bias, girlie, James Chartrand, knitting, localized foreigner, male traits, Men with Pens, online business, outsider on the inside, prejudgment, prejudice, professional, professionalism, pseudonym, Québec, respect, virtual business, web design, woman as man, writing | Category: career, community, culture, identity, self-image, society, women | View Comments

Solstice reading: June newsletter

Good time to explore the whole new world of a good book about the world. (Or a title about staying home — ‘the staycation’.) [...]

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June 9th, 2010 | Tags: book suggestions, booklist, culture war, expat+HAREM newsletter, Father's Day, global values, globetrotting, hybrid life, intuitive human ethics, Kindle, Longitude Books, midsummer, moral foundation, morality, multitasking, Peter Adams, reading list, solstice, staycation, time-bending, vicarious exploration | Category: American culture, borderlands, career, community, culture, history, home, identity, memoir, society | View Comments

Finding timelessness

A Californian’s perception of time changed when she changed cultures. [...]

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June 9th, 2010 | Tags: Catherine Salter Bayar, expat+HAREM series, fashion designer, fast-paced, interior designer, Istanbul, megacity, multi-tasking, nargile, pace of life, Selcuk, Sultanahmet, timelessness, Turkey, Turkish, village, waterpipe | Category: career, community, family, origin, self-image | View Comments

Spot that paradox: May newsletter

A reader query, some of the latest content on the site, a new experiential magazine for culturati, and a special offer for entrepreneurs who want to ramp up their professionalism on the world’s widest web. [...]

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May 29th, 2010 | Tags: AFAR, Brian Clark, California, Chris Brogan, close-minded, customer service, Darren Rowse, expat+HAREM newsletter, experiential travel, Filipino, global values, High Arctic, Inuit, open-minded, paradox, Phiippines, Philippines, professionalism, Russian, San Francisco, Sonia Simone, Third Tribe | Category: American culture, career, community, culture, identity, society | View Comments

What's a global niche?

When we discover our psychic peers and global community – fashioning a hybrid identity that honors the many worlds we belong to — we’ve found our global niche. [...]

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May 15th, 2010 | Tags: Anastasia Ashman, citizen of the world, coinage, coined term, cultural psychology, culture amphibian, digital citizen, expat+HAREM series, global being, global community, global identity crisis, global nomad, globalization, hybrid soul, iconoclast, identity crisis, international study, international work, lifehack, lifestyle design, liminal, lingo, LIP, location-independence, location-independent, mobile progressive, neoculture, psychic, psychic location independence, psychic peers, psychic solution, search engine optimization, self actualization, sense of self, SEO, subculture, Third Tribe, tribe, unbounded, unconventional, unmapped | Category: Expat Harem concept, borderlands, career, community, family, global niche, home, identity, multicultural, origin, psychic limbo, self-image | View Comments

Stranger in your own land

Most expats are lucky to be identity adventurers by choice. What happens when you’re born a stranger to your nation? [...]

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April 21st, 2010 | Tags: Aegean, assimilation, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, citizen of the world, ethnic divide, expat+HAREM series, globalization, identity adventurer, Kurd, Kurdish, nationality, Native American, Southeastern Turkey, TCK, Third Culture Kid, tourism, tribe, Turk, Turkey, Turkish, Utopia | Category: career, community, global niche, identity, multicultural, origin, self-image | View Comments

Downdrafts and uplifts

An Irishwoman weighs the dream of life versus the reality, versus the dream of making it happen nonetheless. [...]

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April 14th, 2010 | Tags: accomplishment, Catherine Yigit, cultural peers, dream, dreams, entrepreneurship, expat+HAREM series, expectation, Helen Keller, home-sickness, Irish, lifestyle, limbo, realities, reality, soul, spirit, spreading wings | Category: Expat Harem concept, career, community, family, global niche, home, identity, self-image | View Comments

Waking up Hausfrau

I moved to Switzerland so my husband could advance his career. Overnight, I went from a 28-year-old American career woman to a Swiss Hausfrau. [...]

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April 7th, 2010 | Tags: American, career woman, Chantal Panozzo, feminism, gender, gender gap, gender politics, hausfrau, housewife, local term, married women, One BIg Yodel, progressive politics, second class citizen, suffrage, Swiss, Switzerland, upper-management, wife, women's rights, women's suffrage, Writer Abroad, Zurich | Category: career, community, family, identity, origin, self-image | View Comments

Floating and free-falling

They say your shoes will eventually fit if you keep wearing them. This Japanese Third Culture Kid tried to live his life like that. [...]

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March 17th, 2010 | Tags: anchor, cultural context, engineer, Isao Kato, Japan, Japanese, Laowai, lifestyle mimicry, Malta, Mediterranean, Overseas Chinese, regret, Taiwan, work-life balance | Category: career, community, global niche, home, identity, origin, self-image | View Comments

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