Here is what face theory, attribution, and epistemic humility have to do with why being wrong about a cultural observation feels different from being wrong about anything else.

I live a simple life. My underwear is from Primark. But do not take my robot vacuum. It costs 400 euros and it is absolutely my baseline now. That is hedonic adaptation in one object. Here is what it has to do with moving abroad and going back.

Living between cultures means juggling competing definitions of success. Here is why the pressure to do more is often an inherited scorecard and how to recognise it.

An author deleted me from every platform she could find me on because I asked her to explain her book club. Her response: it is a book club. I do not need to sell anything. She was wrong. Here is why.

Here is where that question led.

The answer may lie in how their new country defines belonging, identity, and cultural membership.

Why do people move abroad?

For some, a child is a reason to stay put. For me, the kid is in the carry-on.

This is what I figured out after almost ten years in Australia and one pandemic about my accent.

Someone said women who dress revealingly are asking for it. That it is a man’s natural instinct. It fired me up.

Are all gays Latino? And what does immigrants have to do with that?

Where do I even start?

After claiming the single mentor model might be a Western construct, a friend's husband, a Swiss diplomat, dismantled my argument from his living room.

I have not found a mentor yet. It feels like an admin task I keep postponing.

In Brazil you do not wish someone happy birthday before the actual day. Something terrible will happen.

I make jokes under stress.

I am an outsider. A literal Ausländer, if you may.

What if the hostility we are seeing toward migrants right now is not really about migrants at all? What if it is about identity?

The congress starts tomorrow. The speech is ready.

I was listed first among the featured presenters.