The best place to look is in the soc.* hierarchy, among all of the soc.culture.* newsgroups. In these newsgroups, you can ask about cities, languages, history, cultural traditions, and the like. In many cases, these newsgroups will have discussions in two or three different languages.

The following is an *incomplete* list of the available soc.culture.* newsgroups. This is only a small portion. If you want to see if there is a newsgroup for a culture not listed here, please ask the people in (news:news.groups.questions) news.groups.questions for pointers to newsgroups and mailing lists about a specific culture.

soc.culture.afghanistan              soc.culture.african
soc.culture.african.american         soc.culture.albanian
soc.culture.algeria                  soc.culture.arabic
soc.culture.argentina                soc.culture.asean
soc.culture.asian.american           soc.culture.assyrian
soc.culture.asturies                 soc.culture.australian
soc.culture.austria                  soc.culture.baltics
soc.culture.bangladesh               soc.culture.basque
soc.culture.belarus                  soc.culture.belgium
soc.culture.bengali                  soc.culture.berber
soc.culture.bolivia                  soc.culture.bosna-herzgvna
soc.culture.brazil                   soc.culture.breton
soc.culture.british                  soc.culture.bulgaria
soc.culture.burma                    soc.culture.cambodia
soc.culture.canada                   soc.culture.caribbean
soc.culture.catalan                  soc.culture.celtic
soc.culture.chile                    soc.culture.china
soc.culture.colombia                 soc.culture.cornish
soc.culture.costa-rica               soc.culture.croatia
soc.culture.cuba                     soc.culture.czecho-slovak
soc.culture.dominican-rep            soc.culture.ecuador
soc.culture.egyptian                 soc.culture.el-salvador
soc.culture.esperanto                soc.culture.estonia
soc.culture.ethiopia.misc            soc.culture.ethiopia.moderated
soc.culture.europe                   soc.culture.filipino
soc.culture.french                   soc.culture.german
soc.culture.greek                    soc.culture.guinea-conakry
soc.culture.haiti                    soc.culture.hawaii
soc.culture.hmong                    soc.culture.honduras
soc.culture.hongkong                 soc.culture.indian
soc.culture.indian.delhi             soc.culture.indian.gujarati
soc.culture.indian.info              soc.culture.indian.jammu-kashmir
soc.culture.indian.karnataka         soc.culture.indian.kerala
soc.culture.indian.marathi           soc.culture.indian.telugu
soc.culture.indonesia                soc.culture.intercultural
soc.culture.iranian                  soc.culture.iraq
soc.culture.irish                    soc.culture.israel
soc.culture.italian                  soc.culture.japan
soc.culture.japan.moderated          soc.culture.jewish
soc.culture.jewish.holocaust         soc.culture.jewish.parenting
soc.culture.jordan                   soc.culture.kenya
soc.culture.korean                   soc.culture.kurdish
soc.culture.kuwait                   soc.culture.kuwait.moderated
soc.culture.laos                     soc.culture.latin-america
soc.culture.lebanon                  soc.culture.liberia
soc.culture.maghreb                  soc.culture.magyar
soc.culture.malagasy                 soc.culture.malaysia
soc.culture.mexican                  soc.culture.mexican.american
soc.culture.misc                     soc.culture.mongolian
soc.culture.native                   soc.culture.nepal
soc.culture.netherlands              soc.culture.new-zealand
soc.culture.nicaragua                soc.culture.nigeria
soc.culture.nordic                   soc.culture.pacific-island
soc.culture.pakistan                 soc.culture.pakistan.moderated
soc.culture.palestine                soc.culture.peru
soc.culture.polish                   soc.culture.portuguese
soc.culture.puerto-rico              soc.culture.punjab
soc.culture.quebec                   soc.culture.rep-of-georgia
soc.culture.romanian                 soc.culture.russian
soc.culture.russian.moderated        soc.culture.scottish
soc.culture.sierra-leone             soc.culture.singapore
soc.culture.singapore.moderated      soc.culture.slovenia
soc.culture.somalia                  soc.culture.south-africa
soc.culture.south-africa.afrikaans   soc.culture.soviet
soc.culture.spain                    soc.culture.sri-lanka
soc.culture.swiss                    soc.culture.syria
soc.culture.taiwan                   soc.culture.tamil
soc.culture.thai                     soc.culture.turkish
soc.culture.ukrainian                soc.culture.uruguay
soc.culture.usa                      soc.culture.venezuela
soc.culture.vietnamese               soc.culture.welsh
soc.culture.yugoslavia               soc.culture.zimbabwe

Recent additions:

soc.culture.african.american.moderated
soc.culture.galiza
soc.culture.occitan

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