Culture Lens

Translating words from one language in another seems straight forward enough. But translating one word to a different culture is sheer impossible. Breakfast translates to 'Ontbijt' in Dutch, but the meal differs significantly. Culture Lense shows this by using Image Search to visualize words not in different languages, but in different cultures.

Arabic

German

Hindi

Italian

Japanese

Russian

Instead, people would take pains to tell her that beauty was only skin-deep, as if a man ever fell for an attractive pair of kidneys. -- (Terry Pratchett, Maskerade)