PocketCultures

Our aim is to provide a guide to world cultures.

The best way to learn about life in different countries is to go there and see for yourself, talk to people from that country. However travelling abroad is not always possible.

PocketCultures would like to be a place where you can go to find out about what life is really like in different countries that you haven’t travelled to, and hopefully to find even more information, and join in the discussion about countries you have visited.

PocketCultures is still young. We’d like to become better known in order to help raise awareness about different world cultures and the importance of being globally aware. Please help! If you like the blogs, we’d be delighted if you tell your friends (and anyone else you think might be interested).

We’d also love to hear from you if you have any suggestions on how we can improve, any content you would like us to feature, or even if you just want to say hello. All content suggestions that we publish will of course be credited. Please write to info@pocketcultures.com

The site consists of 3 different sections:

Blogs of the World
This is a collection of high quality, well written blogs from different countries. They may be written by locals or expats, but all are accounts from people living in a particular country. So instead of reading a third party view, you can read it from people who experience the country first hand.

Topics of the World
Here we publish articles and links about specific aspects of world cultures. Cultures is a vague word, so we decided to break it down into topics such as food, science, music, language… – anything relating to the culture of a particular country.

My partner is a Foreigner
Real life stories of cross-cultural encounters. Anybody can contribute to this section – please write to us if you have a story you would like us to publish. The stories describe situations that highlighted a cultural difference between the friends / couples featured: maybe they were surprised by a word that didn’t mean what they thought it did, or maybe the food in their partner / friend’s country was different to the food they were used to.

The aim of these stories is definitely not to say anything negative about a particular culture – but all cultures have differences and it’s good to be aware of them when you meet people from different places. We hope this can be a light-hearted way to learn about different cultures.

PocketCultures is a group blog, and we intend to add writers / editors from different parts of the world as we grow. If you are interested in participating please drop us a line.

One more thing - at PocketCultures we are passionate about learning about other countries and cultures. The aim behind the website is to increase understanding and make connections between people in different places. For this reason, we have chosen not to include political discussions at the moment. We want to concentrate on finding common ground, not disagreement.

Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy it!