Thang Nguyen 555
Cultures on Collision Course
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Author: Thang Nguyen 555
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Elton John had a song out a while ago. Your Song. Newsweek, when it was still in print, had a page called My Turn (that had been before the Internet with immediate comments and re-tweet). Now, the Art of the Start‘s author, Guy Kawasaki, asked readers what they want included in his next revision of…
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You can take a boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy. This happens to me, not once, but twice. Culture shock upon culture shock! until I feel numbed. I jog on the street full of motorbikes (nice people would say “Co len”, bad people would try to run me…
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Last Sunday morning was my first time at the jam session here. Today, my second. It is getting better, sweeter and with more substance. Thanksgiving weekend with friends and music lovers. It’s game weekend in the US. Or shop til you drop. Here jazz music permeates the air we breathe. Unrehearsed of course. But it…
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Latest study pointed to Vietnam workforce skill deficiencies, particularly in critical and behavioral skills (numerical skill was a given). This study came not as a surprise. For years, kids have adopted a rote learning, picked up from peers and adults, who in turn, had picked up from earlier generations. We are heading toward an era…
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Another friend flew out for Thanksgiving. There is no such a thing here in Saigon: oven-roasted turkey, croton and mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce , yam and apple pie. Mouth-watering! children running around and old folks reminiscing the good old days. Yes, his destination has a few hallmarks of the American Dream. Here in old Saigon,…
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Industrial society once allowed to run its full course leaves behind many casualties: pollution, typhoons, unemployment and crime. Kids with early exposure to the I pad and I phone, turn near-sighted if not bi-focal. Adults with easy access to porn (free or paid) found real organic relationship something of a burden if not boredom. Back…
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It’s my first time at Van’s Cafe, 46 Pham Ngoc Thach, District 1 Saigon on Sunday morning. And I found myself walking into the door with 2 musicians I know: Mr Hai, on base guitar, and Quoc Dat (blind but extremely gifted jazz pianist, and a student of my now deceased friend.). Before I knew it, people…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: There is a story on BBC news about an Indian engineer who complains that he only married thrice: “why would the Muslims have all the wives, and me, a Hindu, cannot have multiple marriages” he vented his apparent frustration. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8224746.stm Truth be told, he was confirmed to have been…
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At work or at home, we relate to a network of people e.g. parents, siblings, neighbors and co-workers. Now, on top of that, we got our online reputation to build and keep up. It’s the new currency. Trust and transparency. Amazon and Facebook model are built on that. Delivering what we are promised, on time…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/477965/Lotto-winner-Callie-Rogers-reveals-hell-her-pound19m-fortune-brought.html You can’t handle the truth! Or blew 3 million dollars of lottery winning on booze, boobs and bags of white powder. What a boyfriend the 16-year-old lottery winner hangs out with. Meanwhile, another couple from Tokyo win the Tango contest, leaving the Argentinians in the dust (another couple…
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