Welcome back to the Culture Cast! We're sorry it's taken so long, but now we're back with the continuation from our last episode where we discussed tea around the world. In this episode, we touch upon stereotypes, skepticism and managing potentially uncomfortable situations.

We really hope you enjoy the episode!

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Before we get started - are you sitting comfortably with a cup of tea? Maybe its an earl grey, an oolong, a green tea or an English breakfast tea - but do you know the story of your brew?

In this episode, we want to take you on a journey through the history of tea, giving you an understanding of where your boiled beverage comes from and how the way we drink tea across the world can vary greatly! Whether it's teas relationship with class in the UK, Chinese table etiquette, or tea marketing - we've got it covered!

And most importantly we'd love to hear from you - how do you drink your tea? And what is your favourite type? Enjoy the episode!

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Episode links:

TED-Ed - The history of tea - Shunan Teng: https://youtu.be/LaLvVc1sS20

Association of Traditional Studies - The Art of Chinese Tea: https://www.traditionalstudies.org/the-art-of-chinese-tea/ 

Cogito - The History of Tea: https://youtu.be/6S0hlv5sUbw

UK Tea & Infusions Association - The History of Tea (with a counter for the amount of tea consumed in the UK each day!) https://www.tea.co.uk/history-of-tea 

London Tea exchange - HISTORY OF TEA: https://londonteaexchange.co.uk/history-of-tea/ 

茶知道 - Types of Chinese Tea: https://chazhidao.org/en/first-circle/types-chinese-tea 

Teapedia - Image of a tea brick: https://teapedia.org/en/Tea_brick 

Medicine Net - Coffee and Tea Caffeine Chart: https://www.medicinenet.com/what_has_more_caffeine_coffee_or_tea/article.htm 

Want to share your thoughts on the episode? Interested in suggesting a topic for us to talk about? Get in touch with us by commenting on our Instagram posts @context_culture, or by emailing us at contact@contextculture.uk.  

Welcome back everyone! We're ready to kick off season 2 of the Culture Cast and hope you're excited to join us! Myself (Stewart) and Yuchen will explore points of cultural importance from a cross-cultural lens. But what does this mean, exactly? In other words, we're gonna be asking ourselves questions such as ‘how are manners important in my culture’ and then exploring these questions together to compare our answers. Whether we find similarities or differences, we’re bound to learn something new and hope you will too! Stay tuned until the end to hear about next episodes topic and how you can get in touch with your suggestions for the podcast! Enjoy the show.

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It's been a while...but the Culture Cast back!

After so many discussions and a long break to think about everything they'd learned, hosts Yuchen and Stewart come back together for this concluding episode to talk about the key takeaways from season 1.

In this episode, you'll hear reflections on:

• The power of storytelling
• Our favourite episodes
• Whether we think we have any biases
• Whether there is such thing as cultural superiority/inferiority, and much more!

So join us for this final episode, we can't wait to see you in season 2!

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As always, we hope you learned something new and if you have any questions or want to appear on the podcast, send us an email at contact@contextculture.uk . We'd love to hear from you!

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Welcome to the penultimate episode of season 1 of the Culture Cast! In this very special episode, hosts Yuchen and Stewart sit down with Xuan, who opens up about the Opera in China.

In this episode we talk about national differences between operas, moving on to regional differences and explore how these iterations of a main story change the story for the better or for the worse. Xuan also helps us move onto pop-culture, giving us some C-pop songs to listen to!

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List of songs and movies:

Butterfly lovers (Animated)

Butterfly lovers (Live-action film)

Jay Chou - Fantasy (范特西)

Jay Chou - Yeh Hui-mei (葉惠美)

Will Pan - The Expert (高手)

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As always, we hope you learned something new and if you have any questions or want to appear on the podcast, send us an email at contact@contextculture.uk . We'd love to hear from you!

You can also find out more about our mission and our team by checking out our website at www.contextculture.uk - we also have a wealth of free to access resources that will help kickstart your cross-cultural education journey.

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Welcome back to the Culture Cast! This week, hosts Yuchen and Stewart interview Harrison Wheeler, a UI/UX designer/senior design manager at a "pretty large tech firm" who has done everything from playing football (the American kind) in Iowa to crafting elegant user-experience journeys in Silicon Valley!

In this episode, Harrison takes us on a journey of his own - giving us an insight into what culture means to him, what his word of 2020 was and how conscious designing has played such an important role in the development of his career. We also touch upon the cultural variations of seating arrangements as a bridge to discuss Harrisons alumni talk on 'Working your way to the table'. This is a brilliant episode with an extremely accomplished guest and we hope you enjoy.

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As always, we hope you learned something new and if you have any questions or want to appear on the podcast, send us an email at contact@contextculture.uk . We'd love to hear from you!

You can also find out more about our mission and our team by checking out our website at www.contextculture.uk - we also have a wealth of free to access resources that will help kickstart your cross-cultural education journey.

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Welcome back to the Culture Cast! This week, we're jumping back into our conversation with Djamil to hear about his international experience with the cause #ProtectourWomen.

Across the globe, the increasing volume of the voices raising awareness for the experience of women is a wonderful collection of sounds to hear. However, this doesn't mean that we're there yet - as all voices should be involved. Injustice based on sex, gender identity and race continues and, during the pandemic, has increased in some places, and Djamil talks about his experiences learning about the injustice that occurs in his own back yard. ----more----

As always, we hope you learned something new and if you have any questions or want to appear on the podcast, send us an email at contact@contextculture.uk . We'd love to hear from you!

You can also find out more about our mission and our team by checking out our website at www.contextculture.uk - we also have a wealth of free to access resources that will help kickstart your cross-cultural education journey.

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It's fair to say that our Identities are important, but do we ever stop to think how our identities are created and reproduced by the language we speak and the stories we tell? 

In this episode, we're joined again by Ying Siu who walks us through the importance of language in identity creation as well as how her research can help better support those who sit 'in between' identity groups.

Ying also points us in the direction of some useful resources that can be used by anyone for mental health support.

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As always, we hope you enjoy and if you have any questions or want to appear on the podcast, send us an email at contact@contextculture.uk . We'd love to hear from you!

You can also find out more about our mission and our team by checking out our website at www.contextculture.uk - we also have a wealth of free to access resources that will help kickstart your cross-cultural education journey.

Finally, please like this episode, follow our stream and rate our podcast so we can keep making content with brilliant guests like the ones you've already heard from. Thank you!

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