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This collection comes with cultural critiques of Disney characters as well as YouTube clips to show their point. The sad thing about see this list was that there could have been WAY more than 9 profiled.
Why is it important to recognize how cultures and places are being (mis)represented? 
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The rise in technology has made it easier to know the sex of a child before birth. As they say, knowledge is power, and to know whether you should paint the room pink for the arrival of a baby girl or blue for a baby boy could be considered as such. Via Ana Valdés
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This Bluegrass version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies" transgresses numerous cultural assumptions, making for a very intriguing remake. How does the fact that this song was originally sung by a woman, now reinterpreted by an all-male group influence the meanings of the song? Is it different if a woman sings a song originally sung by a man? Does the stark change is musical genre change the context of the message?
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That Delhi is India’s rape capital is a fact repeatedly stressed by crime statistics, but recent studies show safer streets could help to make the city safer for women.
The physical landscape can play a powerful role in shaping (not determining) cultural practices. As we deliberately reshape our cities to make women safer, we are also reshaping our cultural values to be more commited to gender equality. Via Ana Valdés
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Find at alsharifa.com Islamic swimsuits, islamic swiwear for women, hijab swim suit, kurta, indian kurti, veilkini, woman tops, long skirts, beautiful jewelry...
This online Islamic colthing store for women shows a convergence between modern secular technology and traditional religious values. As the tagline of the site says "where modern meets modest!" Does this make you rethink modernization or traditional religions at all?
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The new crop of reggae artists aren't actually from from Jamaica, but they are wildly successful. Back to the themes of music, place, identity and authenticity. How do these themes intersect in this article/podcast? Why is the theme of authenticity so important to the music industry?
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Written by Harold Miner, the Body Ritual of the Nacirema was written in part to parallel an early 20th century cultural anthropology report on a culture this can be used to discuss culture and different perspectives of culture groups. This could be very fun, especially waiting to see when the "aha" moment comes and they understand just who the Nacirema are (the SPOILER will be embedded in the comment section). It is lengthy and written as academic paper, so for K-12 use, I'd recommend using snippets and having them work in groups to analyze the seemingly bizarre cultural rituals of the Nacirema.
Seth Dixon's comment,
November 14, 2011 4:05 PM
The "Nacirema" are "American" spelled backwards (or interpreted backwards).
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Compton cricket club hails from one of the most deprived areas of Los Angeles and counts ex-gang members and even officers from the LAPD among its ranks.
Race, class, identity and sports...this get us to rethink these connections. Why is it such a shock that a team from the hood plays cricket? What other examples of class and sport paticipation can you think of? What is the connection between class and cultural activities such as sports?
Samuel D'Amore's curator insight,
December 17, 2014 2:51 AM
It's always great to see poorer areas and highly tense areas able to find a measure of peace regardless of their conflicts. Often the people are brought together over things like religion, education and often sports yet not often cricket. The unusual thing is that cricket, a customarily British sport has not only caught steam in the US but that it would serve as such a binding agent in "the Hood". Articles like this shine hope on the possibility of bringing peace to some of the more violent urban areas.
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Hundreds of elderly residents visit an IKEA in Shanghai to chat, drink free coffee and look for partners. Where do cultural exchanges and interactions happen? Why there? What does this say about China? IKEA?
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Stephen Colbert was roundly criticized by politicos last year for his tongue-in-cheek congressional testimony on the plight of illegal farm workers, but now he's getting to revel in his own prescience.
This is a humorous look at an ugly situation brewing in Alabama over the strictest anti-immigration law in the United States. Why would a state without a border have the toughest law? How is this a cultural issue?
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Many Americans will continue to see the Amish as a backward cult, but many more will persist in mythologizing them, seeing in them what they need to see.
Folk cultures and popular cultures have different underriding core values. Why do some seek to point or the problems with Amish society, while other wish to romanticize it?
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By isolating his country and expanding settlements, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel is undermining the peace process and his country’s future.
The geographic complexities in this region have lead to one of the most contentious and controverstial conflicts of our time. How is culture a major determining factor in this political situation?
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In Malibu California, an architect and his client take aluminum recycling to extremes. (Awesome recycling!
Why cultural influences would get people to recycle a 747 in this manner? Could this happen anywhere? How is can environmentalism also a social status symbol? Via Ana Valdés
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Jewish law holds men responsible for controlling their licentious thoughts about women.
Previously posted, was a video about ultra-Orthodox Jews who sought to enforce their brand of Judaism on more secularized Jews who lived near them. A fight over public displays of the body, space and religion ensued. This is an important op-ed that argues that these impositions on women are not doctrinally correct and actually objectifies women all the more.
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This beer commercial is actually a great social experiment in how we interact with people and place. What cultural perceptions of the bikers were making some on the 'participants' uncomfortable? Even if we aren't expected to interact with the people we sit next to in a theater, why did they perceive this to be an 'unsafe' place? The real question: How would you have handled that situation?
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This is about as overtly hyper-masculine (and not surprisingly misogynistic) a commercial as you can get. It is also useful tool to explain the social construction of gender within cultures. How are they constructing 'masculine' in this commercial? Conversely, how do they separate this imagined masculine from 'feminine?' How do we know within the context our culture, what is acceptable for men (or women)?
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http://www.ted.com Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authen...
To gain a global perspective inherently requires understanding multiple perspectives. Africa is frequently portrayed as 'the other' but also homogenized within a single narrative that 'flattens' truth. How do we teach about other places that develop geographic empathy and show the many stories of places?
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The computer programming is designed to understand voice patterns, but whose voice patterns? Serveral accents, ranging from Scottish to Hispanic, are not recognized as "English" by the voice recognition command in the new iPhone. So what does this mean as we try to understand the culture of technology? The geography of language? Via LatinaComm
Isabelle Zahn's curator insight,
January 2, 2014 7:56 PM
This article applies to language because of the whole accents concept. It als fits into pop culture because it is talking about the phone that millions of people around the world have. In this article it talks about how Siri the i phone voice recognition command can tell many languages and accents. The only accent that Siri cannot comprehend is that of a Latino. This has relevance in many communities because lots of people all over the world have i phones and use Siri including Latinos. In places that is a majority of Latinos the i phone if it wants to really apply to them should be able to understand their accent just like it could of anyone else. Short term effects could be people listening to what Apple had to say and just trying to use it more so that it will recognize them just like it would any other accent. A long term effect would be Apple making Siri understand the accent and maybe do other things with the i phone to make it apply more to Latinos making their market even bigger.
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"We talked about ginseng and about how ginseng hunting gets in your blood. He was saying that when you’re walking through the woods, you can tell the places where ginseng is likely to grow — in the richer coves often near chestnut stumps, grapevines or black walnut trees." The folk cultures of Appalachia are fascinating, with the distinct accents, gathering practices and a greater connection to the land than most in the United States.
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Strange, but let me explain...when paired with the earlier mentioned "Cricketers in the hood" article, we see the cultural assumptions about the sport. Race, class and ethnicty are important elements of the narrative of a 'gentleman's sport.' This parody of 'Straight Outta Compton' inverts the paradigm of rap's narrative that also uses race, class and ethnicity to construct an authenticity that is derived from poverty and tough urban life. Why do these cultural narratives mean? Why does the 'transgression' of these narratives seems so strange to most of us?
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"Five men from the remote Pacific island of Tanna arrive in America to experience western culture for the first time, and force us to look at ourselves through brand new eyes..." This cross-cultural experiment reinforces numerous stereotypes, but also seeks to get viewers to look at issues from a variety of perspectives. Folk cultures, modernization and globalization are all major themes of this show.
Gene Gagne's curator insight,
December 10, 2015 7:14 PM
This reminds me of what we learned in class about American people or white folks in general go to a native island and want to see the natives uncivilized and not up with the times of technology, clothes, homes made of up to date material. They want to see grass skirts, old tools, tribal living. The white folks see modern times already they want to see old things. 
Martin Kemp's curator insight,
December 14, 2015 12:19 PM
I think exercises like this are really cool, there are a lot of these experiments that go on with culture swaps and I always find the reactions when returning home to be probably the most interesting, just like in this video it is a large celebrations and it helps to put things in perspective 
Matt Ramsdell's curator insight,
December 14, 2015 8:42 PM
This is a show that is based on how we see and view daily life of native people as compared to our own. How ever I feel as though this show is more based on the how these people actually live rather then adapting and learning to the area that they are in. It does show how globalization plays an important role in the show.
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Way of life under threat as bill proposing resettlement of villagers to designated townships goes before Israeli parliament... Via sabine w
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A deportation program has led disproportionately to the removal of Latino immigrants and to arrests by immigration authorities of hundreds of United States citizens, a new report says.
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
This set of light-hearted photos show social conventions about gender and sexuality that get questioned when the paradigm is inverted.
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Republicans should claim victory and start talking seriously about immigration.
Let's think about the intersection between politics and culture. Fact: Illegal immigration is at its lowest point since 1972, when Mexico's Total Fertility Rates were over 7. Illegal immigraion has dropped 80% since 2000. Why is this NOT being reported much? Why AREN'T politicians patting themselves on the back? There is no advantage to claim victory, when fear rallies the voters--fear of 'the other' is still (to some degree) driving the political discourse on immigration.
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