More Than Meets the Eye: Heartfelt Stories of Danish-Thai Intermarriages
Phonphan Thongsumat or “Jum” was 23 when she decided to move to Denmark. As a single mother with little educational background, she...
World Happiness Report: Should We Trust It?
It was a Wednesday morning like any other. As I kept snoozing my alarm and postponing the inevitable, I bundled up in my duvet hoping to...
Why Did China Remain Silent When a ‘Racist’ Advertisement Came Out?
Late May, 2016, a laundry-detergent advertisement from a Chinese company, Qiaobi, triggered great backlash on English-language social...
Robots in Disguise: Human Deception through Social Bots
© Studiostocks “They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.” American presidential candidate Donald Trump has not...
International Court of Justice: Does It Work?
On September 2013, the Colombian frigate ’20 de Julio’ departed from a shipyard in San Andrés island to the meridian 82 west, in the...
The Journalist at the Pub
© Isabelle Bonenkamp It is the 4th of February and I just posted another guide into the Facebook group for international students in...
Minorities in Turkey: How a nation neglects its diversity
Photo by Carolina Drüten Leyla Zana’s life would change forever on a November day in 1991. She had just been elected to the Turkish...
Deconstructing Woody Allen: His crimes and misdemeanors and why we should still love his art
“Look at that woman in the tie and hat over there. She looks just like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall!”, was the unguarded exclamation that...
The Third World tourist: Why does traveling become an obstacle race?
Flights booked. Housing arranged. Insurance ready. Thirty-year-old Joel could already picture himself strolling in the elegant and...
Dramatic dropout rates in the Greenlandic educational system calls for action
Ilisimatusarfik in Nuuk, the only university in Greenland (Press photo by Toke Brødsgaard) GREENLAND: Education is considered the key for...
