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Cultures Worldwide

Learn about cultures around the world, use search engines from different countries and in different languages, and create multilingual web sites.

 

World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Migration and Ethnic Relations

  • Maintained by the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, this extensive, annotated collection of links is searchable by alphabetical index, resource category, or keyword.

Bill's Aboriginal Links

  • Links to newsgroups and web sites about aboriginal and indigenous peoples around the world.

Microstate Network, Microstate Ltd.

  • Resource developed by a corporation that provides information technology expertise to advance the causes of micronations.

Multicultural Pavilion

Resources for K-12 teachers include curriculum ideas, music reviews and online literature for children. Links of general interest may be found in the following:

    Research and Inquiry

  • Links to statistical databases, electronic publications, research organizations, and online libraries (including related subject collections in the WWW Virtual Library).

    Multicultural Paths: Other Sites

  • Links to immigration resources, action groups, and historical documents archives.

Multicultural Web Links

  • Annotated links to multicultural publisher information, book reviews, and educational resources.

Say Hello to the World Project, Internet Public Library

  • Audio clips say "Hello" in different languages, plus links to resources about the languages and cultures.

The Web of Culture

  • Geared towards people conducting international business, this site provides information about gestures used in different cultures.

In Spanish/En Español:

Directorio Global Net

  • Spanish language search engine and subject directory indexes web sites in Spanish and other languages.

CiberCentro - Directorio en Español

  • Guide to (mainly) Spanish language web pages from Latin American countries and the United States.

Latin World - Latin America on the Net

  • Bilingual (Spanish/English) directory of Internet resources on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain.

Spanish language web site of Queens Borough Public Library, New York

  • Library information, online catalog and periodical index in Spanish.

Help for accessing multilingual resources

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

  • Information on creating web pages with non-western character sets, languages, and writing systems.

Multilingual Internet Guides and Resources

  • HTML and WWW tips, tutorials, and glossaries in various languages. Compiled by the WorldWide Language Institute, a company that provides online language courses.

Beaucoup! Geographical list of search engines

  • A sample of search engines from around the world.


 

For information about this page contact Dr. Clara M. Chu, UCLA DLIS, at: cchu@ucla.edu.

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last updated 9.8.98, kmw