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	All of our films link to pages with additional cultural information and material. Your journey starts by watching our films, but can last much longer after you exit the theater or pull out that DVD. For information on the countries and cultures you see in our films, visit their individual web pages on this site.

AFGHANISTAN

Culture
http://www.culturalorientation.net/afghan/atoc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Afghanistan
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/afghanistan.html
http://www.afghan-network.net/Culture/

Expats
http://www.culturalorientation.net/afghan/acult.html#6

Film
http://afghanland.com/entertainment/movies.html

Kite flying
http://www.afghana.com/Entertainment/Gudiparanbazi.htm

Languages
http://www.afghan-network.net/Culture/languages.html

Music
http://www.geocities.com/mcafaf/page1.html

Religions
http://www.geocities.com/afghan_religions/

GERMANY

Art
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/arts/visual_arts/modern_art.html

Country
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/life/life.html
http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/detoc.html
http://www.economist.com/countries/Germany/

Culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Germany
http://www.goethe.de/kue/enindex.htm
http://www.campus-germany.de/english/4.303.659.html

Film
http://www.german-cinema.de/
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa011126a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:German_films

Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Germany
http://www.miz.org/englishversion.html

Religions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Germany
http://www.germany.info/relaunch/culture/life/religion.html


	Global cross-cultural initiatives Afghan-American http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=15042 Afghan-German http://www.aiesec.org/afghanistan/aiesec_afg/


	MORE LINKS___________________________________________

We are all connected...

The world grows smaller as technology gives us more opportunities to connect and communicate.

Here we’ve listed numerous links to
web sites of organizations that through their own work have a tremendous positive impact on cross-cultural understanding.

Some of them have affiliations to us or to our staff members and other organizations came to our attention in our quest to build a network of international organizations working on improving cross-cultural relations.

Archives and libraries of world cultures

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is engaged in a new and urgent mission: to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry – and the suffering they cause – through the educational use of the Foundation’s visual history testimonies
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/

Imagine Identity and Culture is the first cultural organization in the Netherlands to highlight the culture and identity of migrants as seen from their own perspective.

Imagine IC invites people to describe their history and culture by means of various activities. It then uses these stories to create exhibitions, audio-visual programs and digital productions for both newcomers and residents. http://www.imagineIC.nl

Listening for a Change works to achieve its Mission through three dynamic programs: The Sonoma County Survivor Project, The Essence of Acceptance, and The Community Listening Project. Each is a catalyst for change in achieving acceptance of diversity in schools, neighborhoods and greater communities. http://www.thesurvivorproject.org/

Humanitarian organizations

International Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. http://www.icrc.org/

Unesco, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was founded on 16 November 1945. This specialized United Nations agency has an ambitious goal : to build peace in the minds of men.
http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.ph-URL_ID=2450&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html


		Immigrant services PTV-Program for Torture Victims provides medical, psychological, and case management services to survivors of torture. http://www.ptvla.org/

	Also check out MY WORLD which will have links to video diaries and culture content created by people all over the world just like you.

		Please send us your links to other organizations that through their missions help to improve cross-cultural understanding.


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