CultureCrossing.net is an evolving database of cross-cultural information about every country in the world. This user-built guide allows people from all walks of life to share essential tips with each other about how to navigate our increasingly borderless world with savvy and sensitivity. Easy to navigate and free to use, CultureCrossing.net provides an opportunity for travelers, business people and students to:
The information posted in our individual country guides is submitted by people who are either natives or residents (or former residents) of the featured countries. Every day additional information is added by community members who have had experiences living, working, studying or traveling in each particular country. All of the information posted on the website is vetted by a Culture Crossing staff member and checked for credibility by cross referencing with at least two other sources.
When using the country guides for reference, it is important to understand that they provide only generalized information and that there are always exceptions to the rule. The purpose of offering this generalized (and abridged) version of the information is to introduce people to some of the cultural tendencies exhibited by people from different nations.
By providing this information we merely hope to remind people to be alert to these tendencies in order to avoid unnecessary miscommunication or conflict when interacting with people from other cultures. We also hope that by reading about the wide variety of cultural tendencies in the world, people will become more aware of how their own culture impacts the way they act, react and interact with the world.
