{"id":5607,"date":"2026-02-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5607"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:02:07","slug":"between-cultures-faith-identity-home-new-beginnings-absolutely-intercultural-315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5607","title":{"rendered":"Between Cultures +++ Faith +++ Identity +++ Home +++ New Beginnings+++ Absolutely Intercultural 315"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5607-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_315.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_315.mp3\">http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_315.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5609\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6669985269837527;width:217px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-06-at-13.10.15-6.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Hello dear listeners, and welcome to Show 315 of Absolutely Intercultural!<\/strong><br \/>Have you ever wondered how much of who you are is shaped by where you are?<br \/>Today we\u2019re diving into a fascinating question:<br \/>\u201cDo we change our identity when we cross borders?\u201dIn a world that\u2019s constantly on the move through study exchanges, remote work, or migration our sense of belonging can shift in surprising ways. Does home remain in one place, or can we collect new \u201chomes\u201d as we go?<\/p>\n<p>As always, here on Absolutely Intercultural, everyone is free to think and say absolutely anything. And because identity can be a personal topic, you might notice yourself agreeing strongly with one guest\u2026 and feeling challenged by another. If that happens, it\u2019s okay to pause, reflect, and come back.<br \/>My name is Lorena, and this episode comes to you from Germany.<br \/>So sit back, get curious, and maybe ask yourself: How would you define \u201chome\u201d today?In this show, we\u2019ll hear from three guests who share how living in Germany transformed not only how others see them, but how they see themselves.<\/p>\n<p>In our first story, <strong>Absolutely Rooted<\/strong>, we meet Asma someone who grew up in Germany in a Pakistani Muslim family and learned early what it means to live between cultures, without losing herself.<\/p>\n<p>In our second story, <strong>Absolutely Transformed<\/strong>, we hear from Fouad, a 24-year-old student who arrived in Germany with strong stereotypes and then had to update them, one everyday situation at a time.<\/p>\n<p>And in our last story, <strong>Absolutely In-Between<\/strong>, we listen to Ahmed who discovered that the longer you live abroad, the more complicated \u201chome\u201d becomes\u2026 because you start changing in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s a question for you, dear listeners:<br \/>If someone asked you today, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d<br \/>Would your answer be a country\u2026 or would it be a journey?<\/p>\n<p>Our next show will be coming to you on 6th of March 2026 from Anne Fox in Denmark. Until then &#8211; Bleiben Sie absolut interkulturell!<\/p>\n<p>The host of this show is: Lorena Peposhi (Albanian)<\/p>\n<p>Chief Editor: Oleksii Tsapenko (Ukrainian)<br \/>Assistant Editor: Lorena Peposhi (Albanian), Eltun Khudiev (Azerbaijani)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/poddownico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/podcast\/absolutely_intercultural_show_315.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podfeedico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/absolutely-intercultural\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Podcast-Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/podaboico.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/podcast-absolutely-intercultural\/id137617215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apple podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear listeners, and welcome to Show 315 of Absolutely Intercultural!Have you ever wondered how much of who you are is shaped by where you are?Today we\u2019re diving into a fascinating question:\u201cDo we change our identity when we cross borders?\u201dIn a world that\u2019s constantly on the move through study exchanges, remote work, or migration our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/?p=5607\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Between Cultures +++ Faith +++ Identity +++ Home +++ New Beginnings+++ Absolutely Intercultural 315&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21,1463,7,5,315,81,447,997,73],"class_list":["post-5607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-absolutely-intercultural","tag-adapting","tag-communication","tag-culture","tag-dr-elmar-laurent-borgmann","tag-germany","tag-going-abroad","tag-podcast","tag-rheinahrcampus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5607\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.absolutely-intercultural.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}