PBS
Why the Dragon is Central to Chinese Culture
The Chinese dragon is one of the world’s most globally recognized monsters. Playing a major role throughout Chinese history, they were both creators and destroyers and controlled the elements. They've influenced everything from politics...
Wonderscape
Jewish Beliefs and Customs: A Tapestry of Tradition and Modernity
This video delves into the shared beliefs and customs that unify Jewish people, despite their diverse backgrounds and practices. It covers key concepts like Sadaka, Tikkun Olam, Shabbat, and various Jewish holidays, including Passover,...
Wonderscape
Exploring Judaism: History, Beliefs, and Cultural Diversity
This video provides an insightful journey into the history, beliefs, and cultural diversity of Judaism. Tracing its origins to Abraham, the video discusses Judaism's transition from polytheism to monotheism, influencing religions like...
Wonderscape
Asian New Year Celebrations: Customs and Traditions Across Cultures
This video explores the diverse New Year celebrations in Asian cultures, including the Korean New Year with its hanbok attire and sebe bows, Japanese New Year with mochi and bell-ringing traditions, and the Vietnamese New Year, or Tet,...
Wonderscape
The 15 Days of Chinese New Year: Customs, Mythology, and Festivities
Explore the 15-day celebration of Chinese New Year in this video, highlighting daily customs like setting off fireworks, not cleaning to preserve good luck, and celebrating the Lantern Festival. It covers the unique traditions for each...
Wonderscape
The Hopi: A Legacy of Endurance and Culture
This video traces the Hopi people's history, from their ancestral lands in Northeastern Arizona to their struggles against colonization. It highlights key aspects of Hopi culture, such as matrilineal clans, resistance to Spanish and U.S....
Wonderscape
Celebrating Chinese New Year: Traditions and Legends
This video explores the rich traditions of Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, a significant celebration in Chinese culture. It explains the holiday's roots in the Chinese lunar calendar and the various customs like...
Wonderscape
The Tragic History of Indigenous Land Removal in the United States
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the forced removal of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands in North America. Narrated by Rainy Fields, a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and of Cherokee descent, it delves into...
Curated Video
What are Morgan's 8 Organizational Metaphors? An Organization is Like a...
Sometimes the best way to understand something complicated and abstract is with a metaphor. Gareth Morgan suggested we can gain some good insights into the nature of organizations from 8 organizational metaphors.
Curated Video
Influence of Native Americans
Dr. Forrester discusses the impact of Native Americans on the British settlers and modern American culture.
Mazz Media
Let's Learn About Communities: Communities Long Ago
Communities Long Ago takes students back in time. Students will embark on a journey to early Native American communities, Colonial towns, and early American cities, exploring the evolution of communities throughout history. They will...
Weird History
EveryDay Things We Do That Have Pagan Origins
Links between holiday traditions and pagan culture are well established - and occasionally celebrated - but there are also a lot of misconceptions about paganism that make the word itself a bit taboo. Paganism isn't something to be...
All Ears English
2051 - Michelle’s Vacation Tradition Why You Should Take a Cooking Class When You Travel
Are you planning to take an international trip this year? Today learn about one amazing way to immerse yourself in the culture and take home a practical kitchen skill. Listen in today!
Curated Video
Rediscovering Buddhism
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how many people educated in the Western tradition, himself included, have only recently come to appreciate the intellectual significance of many aspects of Buddhist thought.
Curated Video
Willful Ignorance
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how many Eastern ideas and perspectives have been routinely ignored by the West.
Curated Video
Asian Values?
Author and independent scholar author Pankaj Mishra gives his views on whether the East and the West have a fundamentally different set of values.
Curated Video
A Sense of Crisis
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes how his outlook to life has been irrevocably affected by a deep sense of crisis that is common to many people who grow up in Asia.
Curated Video
In the Shadow of The West
Award-winning author Pankaj Mishra describes his personal experiences of growing up in Asia while being disproportionately affected by Western cultural, philosophical and economic considerations.
Curated Video
United in Crisis
Author and independent scholar Pankaj Mishra describes how his own upbringing in India is marked by a sense of crisis that he shares with other figures in other places and times.
Curated Video
Chesterton Fence: Don’t Destroy What You Don’t Understand!
Chesterton’s Fence is a simple rule of thumb that suggests you should never destroy a fence, change a rule, or alter a tradition if you do not understand why it was created in the first place. China’s Four Pests Campaign during the Great...
Curated Video
The Inuit People of Alaska
The Inuit People of Alaska investigates how the physical characteristics of a place influence the daily life of the people who live there by examining the cultural characteristics of the Inuit people of Alaska.
Curated Video
The Gullah Culture
A video entitled "The Gullah Culture" which explores the history, language, and traditions of the Gullah Geechee people of the United States' southeast coastal region.
Curated Video
Mexico Christmas Traditions | Intermediate Spanish Conversation | La Navidad
Learn Mexican Christmas traditions by listening as Juan and Pamela talk about how they celebrate Christmas. Christmas is a very important holiday in Mexico, and in this video you will learn lots of useful Spanish vocabulary related to...
Curated Video
World Cultures
The video “World Cultures” describes elements that make a culture: language, home, customs/celebrations, clothing, and food.