Donate

Cultural appropriation

Malaysian Chinese comedian Nigel Ng poses as "Uncle Roger" to critique people's culinary endeavors. His YouTube channel has nearly half a billion views.

Uncle Roger, YouTube’s culinary avenger for Asian food

Food

The World’s Patrick Winn spoke with Nigel Ng, “Uncle Roger,” about foodies, cultural appropriation and the universality of the grumpy uncle.

Dutch white people in blackface and colorful costumes

In year of Black Lives Matter protest, Dutch people again wrestle with tradition of Black Pete

Culture
Ira Lightman at a poetry reading in Manchester, UK, at an event organized by Poets and Players. Lightman moonlights as a poetry plagiarism detective. 

This poetry detective tracks down word thieves. But are they all plagiarists?

Arts, Culture & Media

Cool Fix for a Hot Planet

Kevin Young on African American Culture, and Its Role in the Country’s Cultural Progress

Sociology of Shopping

Changing times lead to the changing role of the shopping mall.

The World

A LIFE OF STUFF

The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York is taking a look at our consumerist culture and finding that American attitudes about nature are changing, but our habits aren’t. Brenda Tremblay reports.

Cool Fix For a Hot Planet

Maple seedlings and aluminum-painted roofs save one St. Louis listener energy and money.

The World

The Cold War’s aesthetic revival

Arts, Culture & Media

The aesthetic glories of Stalinist architecture and East German industrial design are at the heart of an upcoming exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.