The Cost of Cultural Ignorance
I discovered Total War: Three Kingdoms, part of the Total War(*) computer game series by The Creative Assembly and SEGA that is set in China during the period of the Three Kingdoms, in the summer of 2019. This experience, coupled with listening to the audiobook version of The Revenge of Geography got me once again thinking about cultural ignorance (I previously wrote about it here) […]
Failures in Cultural Awareness: When Breweries want to be funny
Muslims have been living in Germany for over 40 years. For over 40 years they have been part of the German community. And still, great parts of German society have no awareness whatsoever on how Muslims think, believe, and feel. German newspaper Mitteldeutsche Zeitung reports that a small German brewery wanted to land a publicity […]
