Cultural Patterns and Processes
Recommended Websites
Pop Culture
Google Arts & Culture Incredible breadth of information and resources via images, virtual tours, and other multimedia
CNN Starbucks ban lifted on women in Saudi Arabia
Teach Rock Collection of multimedia materials about the history of rock and popular music
NYT What makes someone American? This multimedia project interviews people to define it for themselves
HuffPost Check out these dining customs from around the world
Forebears Learn about the meaning and global distribution of surnames
LA Times Op-ed on becoming a citizen during the Trump administration
Language
Quartz A look at how Sanskrit may have come to India
Nat Geo What will be lost as half of the world's languages disappear in the next century?
Sutori Multiple maps and images for teaching geography: Language maps
Endangered Languages Project A massive collection of resources related to our world's languages
Washington Post The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts
PRI Podcast and story collection covering bilingual education to the globalization of English
The Guardian Roots of language: what makes us different from other animals?
BBC What's it like to live where over 300 unique tongues are spoken? A closer look at the most multilingual cities in the world
Religion
Business Insider Animated map of how religion spread globally
Atlas Obscura The practice of sky burials in different cultures
BBC The long history of Islamophobia in the US
Indy 100 A look at world religions with the aid of a graph
WSJ Discusses the current and future decline of religion
Ethnicity
Racial Dot Map One dot per person for the US
Justice Map Visualization of race and income in American communities
Slate An animated map/timeline on the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade in the Americas
PBS SoCal A collection of information about the social construct of race
Videos
Bi Science Brief presentation on the origins of Indo-European langauges
TED Selection of language related videos, including the effects of texting, lexicography, language habits and words themselves
The Atlantic Mapping how Americans speak differently by region
TED Ed How languages evolve
TED Ed How did English evolve?
TED Ed The 5 major world religions
Average Mohamed Muslim cartoon outreach to counter religious extremism, promote democracy and peace
NYT Collection exploring race, bias, and identity
NYT A 6-part video series on implicit bias