When you think of travel, what kind of adventure does your imagination create? Are you backpacking through multiple cities, staying a few days in each place and having a blast? Do you see the entire world in one swoop? Or maybe you envision starting a life in a new country and spending [...]
There is a grand canyon between Acceptance and Tolerance and it has huge implications for international and intercultural communication. When two people of different lifestyles meet, they have a choice: to accept the other person, to tolerate him, or to not tolerate him. Obviously the latter choice doesn’t end well, but the former [...]
If you don’t have the skills to handle transactions that have gone wrong, which happens more often while abroad due in part to obvious language and cultural reasons, chances are you are going to become resentful of the country and its citizens.
Sure, they aren’t perfect, but neither are you. Get it right on [...]
What do you do in your free time in your home country? Do you play sports? Video games? Watch TV? Write a blog? Sing? Whatever it is you do in your home country, it is even more important that you keep doing it when you go abroad. This [...]
