There are over 150 different cultural observances in 2024. While organizations tend to recognize the traditions of the dominant culture, less attention is generally given to the holidays and ...

UC Davis Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning, students and community leaders take part in a cultural burn at the Tending and Gathering Garden in Woodland, California in January 2020. (Alysha Beck, ...

Each human culture consists of a unique set of values, beliefs and practices. However, a common thread across cultures is the apparent importance of preserving aspects of those cultures throughout ...

Cultural appropriation is a hot topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, though it’s been happening for much longer. But what is cultural appropriation exactly? According to ...

What happens when cultures collide? A backdrop of systemic racism can turn innocent cultural exchange into insidious cultural appropriation. Here's a closer look at what has become a central part of ...

In the early 2000s, while I was working as a curriculum designer, cultural competency specialist, trainer, and coach to support HIV/AIDS peer educators (most of whom were themselves living with ...

For those of us who work in multinational companies with colleagues from around the world or for anyone who works in heterogenous, multicultural societies, having a strongly developed sense of ...

When fire ravages forests, homes and lives, it can be hard to think of it as anything other than terrifying and something to be avoided at all costs. For thousands of years, Native Americans in what ...

We all have an internal list of those we still don't understand, let alone appreciate. We all have biases, even prejudices, toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs ...

Cultural appropriation can be a little tricky to understand. Even if you’re familiar with the term and know it’s something to avoid, you might have some lingering uncertainties as to where the line ...

Cross-cultural psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the similarities and differences in thinking and behavior between individuals from different cultures. Scientists using a ...