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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: When at Indian Town Gap in 1975, I was busy helping out at the Bureau of Child Welfare so time passed rather quickly. But not for my fellow countrymen. Many sat there worried: how were they going to make it in America, that winter was coming. Many hurried weddings…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: As the saying goes, “those who don’t know history tend to repeat it”. I should have titled this blog, “the art of reinventing the wheel” as I saw familiar patterns reemerge everyday. Avatar for instance. For a moment there, I thought I was watching Jurassic Park and Never-Ending Story…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: In China,, teacher Ma was on trial for using the internet to recruit partner-swapping. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/world/asia/21china.html?scp=1&sq=Teacher%20Ma&st=cse In Pakistan, they banned Facebook and then YouTube. And in Iran, right after the election, they did not like Twitter. Fast-pace technology collides slow-changing tradition. As of this edit, Kenneth Cole (shoes-man) tweeted about…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: April 27th Newshour featured Viet entrepreneurs coming back to Vietnam : a. to set up shop b. start an NGO and c. work for the Clinton’s Initiatives. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june10/vietnam_04-27.html We found in it our own Victor Luu (Software), Andrew Lam (writer), a coffee-house artist and an NGO dedicate. The piece…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Despite their flaws (who doesn’t have one please cast the first stone), these are the people I look up to: – President Carter with his commitment to build housing for the poor – President Clinton out of that place called Hope – Jim Elliot, the late great missionary who…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: How much time do you have left? Life expectancy average has been up, but individually, it’s an open question. The question. And this question should stand Maslow scale on its head i.e. if you knew you were going to die tonight, would you be moving methodically up the Need…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Known as the third place (away from home and work), Starbucks did not stop after opening up in Forbidden City, China. It has just opened for business in Vietnam (where the I-phone, our third screen – after TV and desktop – recently made a stirring appearance). Vietnam young consumer…
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Even to this day, people still using the Vietnam War as a figure of speech: “Syria will be another US‘ Vietnam” etc… It was meant to be the new Boogeyman. To scare off the children. To conjure bad imagery and bring back nightmares. In Rambo, Stallone’s rare line was “where they call Hell, I call…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Books started to come out, dissecting the effects of the Net. A new one, entitled “The Shallows, What the Internet is doing to our brains” by Nicholas Carr. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6523DV20100603?feedType=nl&feedName=ustechnology In retrospect, it brings to mind Neil Postman‘s “Amusing ourselves to death“, a classic critique about effects of television. (He…
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