I've just got back to my desk from a training session on Cross Cultural Awareness, during which our facilitator (a Punjabi-English guy) went on at length about the importance of understanding cultural difference, and how it was on the dominant culture to understand and adapt to the cultural norms of foreigners in our midst, because we have the ( Read more... )

Reminder to self: YOU DO NOT READ WIPS, WITH GOOD REASON. This is because a) you get super-invested in a story you like and hate having to wait an unspecified length of time for the next instalment, and b) authors regularly fail to finish the story, leaving you high and dry, and you hate that even more. You need to remember to check carefully ( Read more... )