All tagged cross cultural
“What is culture shock like, you want to know? It's like losing your parents for days at Disney World. It's like having an existential crisis as a kindergartner. It's like an earthquake when geography is your second parent.”
“My stepmother is my introduction to America and I am her introduction to being a mother. We are both immigrants in that sense…” Indu Subaiya recounts her first steps in a new life.
Sita Chay delves into the creation and power of contemporary shamanic rituals; modern musical languages, Korean shaman rhythms, and folk mask movements all combine to ignite raw emotion and communal energy - a fight for the soul of the world.
"Statistics do not tell the story of immigration. People do... The challenges we face today are not new. Only the stories are."
American-born to immigrant parents, I was always trapped in the white space between a traditional Arab lifestyle and the American dream...