Living before good living

Are certain cultures unable to change? David Brooks thinks so. Writing about what good could come from the human catastrophe still unfolding in Haiti, Brooks sees space for a counterculture to take hold. He argues Haiti’s development has been hampered by its ‘change-resistant’ culture including ‘the influence of the voodoo religion’ ‘high levels of social [...]

Unintentionally exporting social problems

Can the naming of a problem in one culture change how that problem is experienced in another culture? What does this mean for those of us who work on social innovation across cultures?

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