About
A culture is reflective of the knowledge that underlies it. ~ Scott Mutter
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Once upon a time, someone told a story.
And the story was passed on across generations and cultures. Perhaps the story ignited an amazing idea, inspired a person or fueled a groundbreaking change. Or maybe the story just made people happier.
But sometimes a story is lost. Remarkable people, events and innovations often go unnoticed. And we lose the opportunity to learn.
We want to change that.
Authored by cultural explorers, The Journal of Cultural Conversation is an online independent magazine featuring stories to help push the boundaries of one’s life experience. We are committed to the journalism of ideas by putting a creative lens on the people, places and things that make our world so cool.
Designed as an educational center, we share colorful commentary that loudly speaks to our global community, original interviews with authors and artists that are creatively educating our world and insightful reviews that tell their own stories. We believe that the more we learn about other cultures and perspectives today, the more we’ll find to love about the world.
We hope you do too.
Our Philosophy
Culture is about the ways we live and how we share knowledge, from story to story. When we listen to others’ stories and open our minds to different ways of doing things, living and connecting, we almost always discover new ideas.
Many of us spend our lives locked into the systems of thinking, being and doing imposed upon us by our family culture. Exploring the nooks and crannies of an unfamiliar culture through travel, study, or conversation can be an amazing experience one that helps us better understand our own lives. Knowing – through stories, examples and evidence – that there are many different ways of approaching the same topic helps us consciously shape our lives based on our preferences rather than the rules of our heritage or the social standards of our own geographic or personal worlds.
And, for us, it’s critical to provide an interactive and useful way to educate beyond the traditional classroom. It will only become more important as technology advances and our global society becomes increasingly interconnected.
Our Approach
We bring our philosophy to life by focusing our writing in three ways:
1. We write to educate others in order to our collective cultural literacy. Knowledge is power. Sharing knowledge in useful ways empowers. Information is available in ways like never before; our goal is to curate stories in a thoughtful, meaningful and powerful way so that they are useful, offering innovative ideas to inspire others to take personal or global action.
2. We intentionally depart from mainstream media by featuring a mosaic of perspectives – local, unusual and personal stories and experiences. Raising awareness and inspiring change usually starts small – with one person, idea or action that might not make the evening news or the cover of Newsweek. We dig deep to find and share perspectives from new voices.
3. To reflect the diversity of what culture means, you’ll see us write about an array of topics – food, books, art, economic trends, social action, music, religion, travel, creativity, writing – the list goes on.
Come On In!
Explore, share, discover, and have fun. We’re psyched to hear what you have to say. Consider this your starting point for creating your own colorful life classroom.
If you like what we’re about, you can subscribe via email or RSS. Thanks so much for coming by – we’re honored to have you join our community!
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jour·nal (n.) - a periodical presenting articles on a particular subject
cul⋅ture (n.) – the sum of total ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another
con⋅ver⋅sa⋅tion (n.) - an informal interchange of thoughts and information
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