I interned last year over the Summer as a graphic designer and I’ve been meaning to teach myself to do more digital work, including painting digitally. Josh, my drawing buddy showed me tutorials by FZDschool, so I’ve been trying to copy some of their tutorials to learn little by little. The thing is, you can […]
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Ownership of ideas varies across cultures
I drew Josh (and his beloved skull) this week and thought… I really need to work on my digital painting skills. So I bought Adobe CS5 this week. I don’t even know why I *bought* it. I could’ve easily gotten it off a torrent and my Panama friends keep on asking me why I’d break […]
Coffee in Kuwait: an example of a high context culture situation
I’m in a cultural exchange program as part of my Teaching English as a Second Language Certificate. I got assigned to an English learning student from Kuwait, T (as I will call him). Here’s what I learned: I had proposed we meet at the Union Foodcourt and that we both cook dinner and swap meals. […]
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Time *is* relative: Different cultures perceive it differently
By studying other cultures, begin to understand yourself better: Why do you do things the way you do? Why do people here in the U.S. finance houses or cars? Yes, you have the convenience of having things “right here, right now”, but in the end you pay much more money with the interest rates. In […]