Summer Culture Tours: Hookup Central

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  05.29.08 | 9:37 AM ET

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For young, hyphenated Americans looking to connect with their ethnic roots in places like Taiwan and Israel, summer culture tours offer more than short courses in Mandarin, reports the New York Times Weddings section. As one college-age participant puts it, “My parents didn’t know it was a big hookup fest.”

Tags: Global Village, News and Briefs

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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