How to Plan for a Meaningful Culture Blog
You’ve got a big vacation planned, or maybe you’ve decided that you want to live and work abroad. You’ve decided that you want to share your experiences online with the rest of the world, either through a blog or even just on your personal social media profiles. But, you don’t just want it to be a travelogue or a diary, you really want to share the culture of the place you’re going. It can be hard to dive into the culture of a place once you get there, and after you leave, sometimes you don’t feel like you learned enough to really share cross-cultural understanding. You may get to the end of your time abroad and realize that you aren’t sure how to meaningfully talk about what your destination is really like. It becomes really easy to fall back on sharing pretty pictures and writing a travel guide instead of diving deeper. But, if you start out your adventure with a little extra planning, it’ll make finding those cultural experiences that much easier, and sharing them more meaningful. Here are four things to include in your plans for your time abroad to make sharing culture a breeze. Festivals and Holidays The Dance of the Terrifying Deities is one of the main dances of the Thimphu Teschu in Bhutan. Teschus are major religious festivals that take place around the country that involved masked dances performed by monks who enter full meditation during the performance. Check your calendar and the calendar of where you are going and see...
