by Sparkle Insights | Jul 27, 2025 | Popular Culture, Shopping, Social Media, Travel
By Iris Yim As a curious Gen X researcher—and a mom trying to understand her 12-year-old daughter Viveka and 16-year-old son Henning—I often find myself asking them questions about what grabs their attention online and what trends they’re into. It’s both...
by Sparkle Insights | Jul 27, 2025 | Culture, Travel
By Iris Yim On my visit to Scandinavia this summer, I stopped by a border museum in Kirkenes, in northern Norway, near the Russian border. The exhibits—and the very existence of a museum dedicated to this topic—made me reflect on the meaning of a border. ...
by Sparkle Insights | Jul 27, 2025 | Automotive, China, Culture, Multicultural Marketing, Shopping, Social Media, Technology, Travel
By Iris Yim This summer, I traveled through Scandinavia with my family, reconnecting with my husband’s relatives and exploring some of the northernmost inhabited places on Earth. From tiny fishing villages in Arctic Norway to towns near the Russian...
by Sparkle Insights | Aug 23, 2024 | Asian American, China, Chinese, Culture, Travel
by Iris Yim From July 1 to 19 this year, I traveled through China with my husband and two children, visiting Xi’an, Xining, and Qinghai Lake in northwestern China; Chengdu in the southwest; and finally heading south to my hometown of Zhaoqing in...
by Sparkle Insights | May 15, 2024 | Asian American, China, Chinese, Culture, Travel
By Brittany Chiu Are you interested in traveling to China but daunted by all the inconveniences you hear that foreigners encounter? Fear no more! I’m here to give you some tips. I have traveled to China since 2017 and had lived and worked there for...
