Online users asked others to share the weirdest and most shocking differences they noticed in cultures.

T ents are being packed, wellies wiped down and joints rolled up in preparation for the Roskilde festival, a hedonistic week of music and culture which begins on June 27th in eastern Denmark. The line-up is as international as ever,

Cultural news and criticism, and conversations about TV, theatre, movies, and music, as well as Goings On About Town listings from The New Yorker.

In America—where there are a multitude of ethnicities, political affiliations and socioeconomic backgrounds—it’s impossible to pinpoint any one culture. In the workplace, however, despite each person’s individual differences, the best employers are ...

Diet culture is a set of myths and expectations around food and weight, which typically equate thinness to health and categorize foods into “good” or “bad” types. Diet culture creates a moral hierarchy of body sizes and shapes, which typically ...

My mother, who is Chinese, grew up in Malaysia and came to America for college, in the nineteen-seventies. She and my American dad divorced when I was small, and this allowed her to make her suburban household as Malaysian as possible. She and my ...

Building and maintaining strong company culture is essential for businesses of all sizes. Companies with a positive culture are more enjoyable workplaces and, more importantly, tend to have better retention rates. The type of culture you build can even ...

When new government policies allowed kids more time to grown up, the teenager was born. And every decade or so, they’ve changed the ways they entertain themselves … and everyone else