In class today, I shared some excerpts from a heavily-researched nomad4ever blog post on national stereotypes. I'd picked out those that represented my students' nationalities, including Brazilian, Korean, French and Swiss, and we started out by agreeing that although stereotypes are often …
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Same sky: Seven students, seven nations
On an excursion to Fremantle yesterday (more about sightseeing in "Freo" to come), one of the group pointed out that "the Australians" were looking at us oddly on the way home in the train. Not in a negative way, just in a slightly astounded way. And I guess that's because we were rather a United …
Japan’s National Chauvinistic Husbands Association
Yes, the National Chauvinistic Husbands Association really exists in Japan. Apparently a new divorce law, effective since April, gives women the right to half of their husband's pension fund when they divorce. That means a lot of unhappily-married women will suddenly be able to survive a divorce, …