How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America America?

It may help if you're not originally from here.

When was that moment that America became the most American America it could possibly be?

You ever noticed how Americans are not stupid.

I was so excited to be an America I couldn't sleep.

The comedians John Oliver, Hannah Gadsby and Kumail Nanjiani all grew up outside the

US.

When you were trying to understand the nature of something, an outside view can be extremely

helpful.

Did you know there is an entire academic field called cross-cultural psychology?

It's a subfield of psychology that tries to understand what's universal, what's similar,

and what's cultural specific.

Michelle Gelfand is one of the premier practitioners of cross-cultural psychology.

After 25 years at the University of Maryland, she is moving to the business school at Stanford.

Why the business school?

We're fiercely interdisciplinary.

We do lab experiments, field experiments, computational modeling.

We bring in neuroscience to understand all things cultural.

You might think that someone who studies cross-cultural psychology also grew up abroad, or at

least in some big city with a melting pot vibe, but no.

A group of Long Island.

You have to pronounce it right.

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