"In America, Donald Trump has climbed to the top of the early polls for the Republican nomination. And in Germany a sizeable but still minority portion of the population has xenophobic or racist tendencies. The question is if the Pegida or the Trump strategies have long-term staying power or if their impact is only temporary
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Part II of this five-part series depicts the beginning of the accidental pen-pal relationship between Diana growing up in the GDR and a girl growing up in the Soviet Union - the pivot of the whole story. We welcome readers to share their transnational cultural experiences with us, as well.
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What happens when love turns into routine and familiarity? Do intercultural boundaries tend to be a higher hurdle than the usual ones?
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Our culinary columnist today explores a South African friend's food culture, having learned a lot of interesting expressions, traditions and memories from his life she hadn't known before, but among which she found "incredible" commonalities with her own food culture.
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The long winding road of travel is filled with humor. And humor sells.
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The idea in this new column is for people to share their transnational cultural experiences that shaped and changed them in some important way; the debut, running as a series for the next five weeks, features a Leipzig novelist's relationship with all things Russian growing up in the old Karl-Marx-Stadt, and the friendship she built
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