Berkley Center

Grace Ramstad (C'20) encounters a Swedish interpersonal culture characterized by simplicity and blunt forthrightness that first strikes her as rude and uncomfortable, a cross-cultural conflict she identifies as largely rooted in a different understanding of private versus public.

Jessica Frankovich (C'20) explores the historical roots of the contemporary syncretism between indigenous religions and Catholicism visible in many Mexican traditions, exemplified in the buildings surrounding Mexico City’s Zocalo (town center).

Living in Cape Town, South Africa, during an important election year, Taylor Davis (NHS'20) learns that the country's largely peaceful transition from a racial apartheid state to an active democracy is a miracle of modern human interaction.