The Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: You’re Foreign Too!

Date: 15 August 2024
Time: 1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
Location: In person

‘They come over here. So, they must fit in with our ways!’ Perhaps, but you know what, you might change too. Dr Katharina Addington-Lefringhausen (Heriot-Watt University) reveals how nationals – rather than immigrants – culturally change due to living in a multicultural society. Join her to consider the consequences for those who adopt other cultures. Explore whether eating Bratwurst turns you German, why politicians piss off scientists when they speak about “integration”, and how globalisation turns us all into open-minded multicultural world citizens! Or does it?