Decolonize your inner world: Amna Ahmad shows how to gain sovereignty of your hybrid life

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Throwing off the colonizing force we call culture…authentic living lessons from The Pragmatic Hybrid’s Amna Ahmad.

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Rude honesty: when politeness is cultural

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Who’s to say if Dutch directness is rude, or honest, and if British and American sugar coating is politeness or lying?

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Sickness and health: superstitions and strange diagnoses

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You can get a first-rate boob job in Moscow, but I’m still unclear where they sell vitamins.

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Authority abroad: what it takes to become your own expat icon

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Larger-than-life expat personalities seem in tune with far-flung surroundings, and able to produce their best work out of foreign atmospheres.

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Great (avatar) expectations: who decides our best look?

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What do portraits (and self-portraits) demand of us? Which version of yourself do you want to show the world today, and why?

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Passion plays: defending our identity and a future that looks like us

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Most of us would agree that passion fuels our aims better than discipline or elbow grease alone. Passion’s dark side — anger — may be the best defense of our identity, and a future that looks like us.

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Winged etiquette: do manners travel?

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“Manners are your passport to the world” say the etiquette queens. Yet, are manners culture blind?

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Ring my bell: finding resonance with hybrid creatives

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What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?

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