Places to research other countries or cultures?

[WhaleSprite]

So currently, I am writing a story with a few characters from different countries or cultures. Like one is Japanese, another Korean, and another is part Romani with a Romani immigrant grandmother. While I am trying to find stuff out there with my own research, I don't know what places have effective or true info about those cultures. If you guys have tips for research regarding this matter, I'd really appreciate it. While I don't plan to do super deep dives into the culture of my characters, I do want to make sure that what I write is actually correct.

 

[Poleg]

Depends on your country tbh.
If you mean the Internet the best guess would be Image Boards, forums and or YouTube channels that talk about history/culture.

 

[Elevens_Listener]

So currently, I am writing a story with a few characters from different countries or cultures. Like one is Japanese, another Korean, and another is part Romani with a Romani immigrant grandmother. While I am trying to find stuff out there with my own research, I don't know what places have effective or true info about those cultures. If you guys have tips for research regarding this matter, I'd really appreciate it. While I don't plan to do super deep dives into the culture of my characters, I do want to make sure that what I write is actually correct.

ask the people of those backgrounds, probably in some like international discord server for like getting to know other people from across the world

 

[Zenftiy]

Ask here, maybe? Many of us are from different countries. Although I'm not sure if any are from Japan or Korea.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Depends on your country tbh.
If you mean the Internet the best guess would be Image Boards, forums and or YouTube channels that talk about history/culture.

Can confirm. Racism is the best way to learn about cultures. An argument between balkan countries especially if they're throwing slurs against each other is more culturally enriching than a thousand youtube videos essays.

 

[AstreiaNyx]

Easy. Make a wildly inappropriate claim about someone’s culture and watch them jump in to correct you in a heartbeat.

 

[Placeholder]

> Korea

Book list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/korea/comments/8m27is Romani ethnography, skimming, a good source is books by them themselves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/zhl3xq Japan, the BBC did an audio or video series on Japan I'll try to find.

Also watch "Japanology", which is probably an NHK production.

 

[Zumzum703]

Youtube vids are definitely the best choice. Picking either travel vlogs or documentary of their history and cultures would help you a lot.

You might also want to try going for their memes, I recalled the time I got too deep looking into Latin foods because someone in a facebook group was throwing memes, dissing about other countries' food lol

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Go to your local library. My kid plucked two books about Austria and one book about Poland off the shelf to check out last time we went there.

 

[Poleg]

Can confirm. Racism is the best way to learn about cultures. An argument between balkan countries especially if they're throwing slurs against each other is more culturally enriching than a thousand youtube videos essays.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

4chan

They will gladly tell you everything you want about their country while being as racist as possible toward their immediate neighbors.