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Title: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Cross Talk
Author: Jim Fleming
Narrator: Jim Fleming
Format: Original Recording
Length: 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-31-13
Publisher: Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews
Publisher's Summary:
In this hour, can you know a culture if you dont speak the language? In this cross- inter- multi- cultural age, were surveying the map of global culture, attempting to see whats lost or made new in translation. Our friends at The State We're In from Radio Netherlands kick us off with an attempted translation of "gezellig!"
Next, food is certainly the most palatable expression of culture, and the most easily shared. L. A. Times food critic Jonathan Gold has spent his career seeking out the best plates of authentic or reinterpreted - culture. Anne Strainchamps asked him about food in translation.
Then, culture's shaped by geography, language, class and clan. Its also shaped by time. Today our cultures are fundamentally different than they were one, two, three generations ago. If we want to understand old cultural artifacts, maybe we need translators. Ruth Calderon has been studying Jewish texts and stories since she was a child. She talks with Steve Paulson about reinterpreting the stories for contemporary life. And we hear a little regional Americana from the audio archives of Dictionary of American Regional English.
After that, have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home? Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture. He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Following that, America has a thing for Japanese culture. And since the U.S. and its allies occupied Japan after WWII, some Japanese have had a thing for American culture, music in particular. Michael Bourdaghs talks with Jim Fleming about trading tunes across the Pacific.
And finally, perhaps one of the most obvious and important cultural divides in the United States is between the political right and left. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Steve Paulson about his research into the fundamental differences between Democrats and Republican, and how we might begin to speak across the gap. [Broadcast Date: May 31, 2013]