Running from the pack: avoiding homogeneity on the road

American culture
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Here’s my idea of travel torture: Sabotaging a holiday by overpaying someone to impose an itinerary on me.

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Flowering: when we put theory into practice

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Playful travel buzzwords, the logistics of expat women, and a new global culture magazine in the style of Hemingway.

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About this site: making the psychic limbo of global citizens a productive state

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Why do you need our help? Because liminal life is a bittersweet limbo — coming, going, never quite arriving. expat+HAREM embraces the unmoored and central reality of our globetrotting, multicultural, hybrid times.

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Self mute: choosing a world-flung life when you’re language-averse

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Loving to communicate is not the same thing as communicating well. Nor does it mean that communication comes easily.

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Food communion: finding lost rituals

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A global nomad now back in the USA misses the special status of food.

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Reading travelers: find your historical context

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Cultural wisdom historically pools at the intersection of women and travel

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Immigration immunity: is tolerance a two-way street?

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Does just being an expat earn you a badge of tolerance toward other cultures — all of a sudden?

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No ethnic joke: developing an international sense of humor

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An American integrates into all facets of Israeli life. Except for one thing — the humor. Funny is cultural.

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My foreign body: geocharacteristics of a population

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Do warm places make warmer people? How has your body changed in adapting to a foreign climate?

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