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CultureGrams gives you access to exclusive, standards-aligned country
and cultural reports that you won't find in any other free or for-pay
online destination. Our reports cover 200 countries, 50 U.S. states,
and 13 Canadian provinces and territories. (Watch a 2 minute video.)
Exclusive Content: In-Country Experts
Looking for current, concise, classroom-ready information about the world and its cultures? Only CultureGrams (free trial) links students to cultural information that's written and regularly updated by in-country experts.
Our native and resident authors document the unique, intimate details of each country's customs, traditions, politics, and daily life. And whether it's Afghanistan, Thailand (sample report), or Zimbabwe, CultureGrams offers an equality of coverage detailing 25 different aspects of the country and its culture.
Cultural Focus: Insights into Daily Life
CultureGrams helps you discover the world through concise cultural and statistical snapshots that take you beyond typical economic statistics and tourist overviews.
This includes the all-new "Faces of the World" feature. In this collection of nearly 100 interviews, people of all ages from around the globe describe their challenges, ambitions, world views, and everyday lives. These accounts provide a rich layer of insight into their respective cultures.
Here, three children explain what they want to be when they grow up and the factors influencing their decision:
I would like to be a businessman and run my own Internet cafe.... There are so many Internet cafes everywhere and they are always full of people of all ages playing all sorts of online games. My parents do not allow us to use the computer at home just for playing games; that is why some of my siblings and I go to an Internet cafe to play these online games. I have seen that there is much money in the business, and I hope that I will be able to have one when I am old enough to manage and operate one.
I would like to be a dentist. I saw dentists for the first time when they came to our school to check our teeth, and I thought it was very interesting because we had never had anyone come to see about that. They looked in our mouths and when someone had something wrong, they had tools to fix it. My mom says ... that if I study a lot, then I can also hope to become a dentist and I will help my family to have good teeth but also have a good paying job. It would be much better than making shoes, which is what most people here do.
I want to be a doctor or a forensics expert or a scientist. I would like to be a physician because then I could help people. I could heal them from any disease and help them feel better. I would also like to be a forensic doctor. I know about the work forensics experts do because I watch a TV series called CSI. It is my favorite TV show. I really like the way the forensics experts investigate the cases and all the tools they use. I have a kit box from the CSI series, with many of their tools, like a microscope.... All the careers I like are very scientific, so that is also a reason why I need to achieve good grades at school.
Multimedia Features: See the World
It's easy to experience the world up-close with CultureGrams' rich, authentic multimedia content. Video and photo images illuminate daily life in other countries in ways text cannot.
Themed slideshows take students on a visual journey, while videos offer a glimpse of everyday life through clips of locations, people, and events. Detail and outline versions of flags and maps are available for every country, state, and province. Plus, our ever-growing photo gallery is home to thousands of fascinating cultural images.
All content can be streamed or downloaded for use in the classroom
--on computers, projectors, or whiteboards--and is easily downloadable into student presentations.
Timely Tools for Understanding the World
We make it easy to visualize data about daily life that helps explain our ever-changing world. Choose the countries or regions you wish to compare, choose the data you want (infant mortality, female literacy, etc.), press a button, and watch as a graph or table instantly appears.
Or, instantly access more than 50 top-ten extremes charts, such as the countries with the highest oil consumption, the most cellular phones, the most military spending, and the most doctors.
Go beyond quickly outdated encyclopedias and almanacs. CultureGrams offers a slate of online tools that make it easy for anyone to compare distances and currencies, check the time in country capitals, and create their own comparative tables and graphs.
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