Rather than moving away from your friends when you move to a new country, it is best to instead explore the culture and make new friends. That is exactly what John Carlin, columnist for La Vanguardia, does. His old friend Charlie Castaldi, an Italian-French American journalist currently living in Madrid with his wife, shares their podcast about the trials and tribulations of life in Spanish culture today.
In this article, there is an interesting discussion about the ancient Russian culture of lies. The authors point out that today’s expression of it is seen in lie detector testing when it reveals that over two-thirds of a speaker’s statements are not true at all. We also see this type of lie in Western democracies like America.
