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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