出POOL饭

By Yujing Liu, PC ’17

What do college students in Hong Kong do after they get into relationships? Yujing Liu, an exchange student from the University of Hong Kong, explains that they take their friends to a so-called “out-of-pool treat.”

Why are the Balkans always boiling?

By Martin Vasev, Yale-NUS

A Queima das Fitas: Um Ritual Dos Alunos Universitarios

By Mariana Do Carmo BR’17

Each country has its own unique graduation ceremonies/ rituals for university students. Portugal’s involves a week of fun and festivities led by the graduating class for all members…

異文化の身体的接触の勘違い

Think before you hug: Why the Golden Rule fails across cultural lines

단면을 넘어서

By Kate Huh, JE’16
A daughter tries desperately to explain the nuances of her essay to her 1st-generation immigrant mother. As their…

The Foreign Legion

By Samuel Myat San, Yale-NUS

The Tradition of Sinterklaas: When a Public Holiday and Racism Come Together | De Traditie van Sinterklaas: Wanneer een Feestdag en Racisme Samenkomen

A Few Italian Stereotypes Exposed

By Giorgio Caturegli, SM ‘18

الأرز والبدوي: دور المنسف في تشكيل الوطنية الأردنية

By Alejandra Padin-Dujon, DC ‘18

In the Levantine corner of the Arab world, mansaf denotes many things: lamb cooked in yogurt, nationalism, Bedouin hospitality… but colonialism? In a stroke of poetic irony, the…

Les Misérables Marcheuses — les travailleuses du sexe chinoises à Paris