A few months ago, I was invited to the annual Asian-Jewish Film Festival in NYC.I arrived to a small, welcoming room filled with people of various ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.I sat down at a table with a young Jewish man from Israel, a Lebanese American woman, and a Chinese man from China.All of them spoke […]
Cultural shock is a term coined in the 1980s by anthropologist David Erikson to describe a group of young people who feel marginalized by society.It refers to the sense that the society around them doesn’t understand or accept them.They’re the ones who feel left out, misunderstood, ignored or mistreated by society, and often suffer from […]
There’s a new wave of fake news surfacing on social media, with many Americans losing their minds over what is now being described as a “global cultural crisis” of epic proportions.With news that a major international conference will be taking place in Washington, D.C., in two weeks, and that President Trump is expected to travel […]
