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Welcome to the Dating Beyond Borders Podcast!I’m Marina, the creator behind the Dating Beyond Borders YouTube channel, where I’ve spent the past 10 years exploring how culture shapes love and connection.
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Ep. 111 - Why You Misread Your Partner: How Culture Changes the Way We Express Emotion (Ft. David Matsumoto) (opens the original)
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How much of what we think we’re “reading” in someone is actually shaped by our own culture? In this episode of Dating Beyond Borders, I’m joined by Dr. David Matsumoto, a leading expert on emotions, body language, microexpressions, and cross-cultural psychology. We talk about how culture shapes emotional expression, why we misread people when dating across cultures, what silence can communicate, and whether microexpressions really reveal what someone is feeling. If you’ve ever wondered why someo
Ep. 110 - Living in Europe Changed How She Sees Americans (Ft. Roya Fox) (opens the original)
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Why do Europeans often think Americans are "fake"? And why does a simple compliment carry an entirely different weight in France compared to the US? In this episode of the Dating Beyond Borders podcast, I sit down with content creator Roya Fox to unpack what living abroad reveals about the American mindset. When you leave your home country, you start seeing your own culture from the outside. In this conversation, we dive into the hidden mechanics of American social norms: the baseline pressure o
Ep. 109 - Living in America Changed the Way He Sees Germany (Ft. Tobi Harms) (opens the original)
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Why do Germans often say America has "no culture"? And why is negativity seen as a sign of intelligence in Germany? In this episode, I chat with Tobi Harms, a German expat who moved to the US for love, to explore the deep mentality differences between German and American culture. Moving beyond classic tropes like punctuality, bread, and hiking, we unpack the psychological reality of living abroad: the German superiority complex, American optimism vs. German skepticism, small talk, making friends
Ep. 108 - The Male Loneliness Epidemic in China: Why 30 Million Men Can’t Find Love (Ft. Violet Du Feng) (opens the original)
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Watch the preview here: Watch the preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UjDPE2Dbjc China is facing a growing male loneliness crisis, with more than 30 million men who may never find a partner or marry. Filmmaker Violet Du Feng takes us inside the crisis: from male dating bootcamps in Chongqing to rising bride prices that put marriage out of reach for many working-class men. We explore how the One-Child Policy shaped this imbalance and what it means for a generation of Chinese men strugg
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