Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: Andy Warhol

  • Your chance

    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…

  • Lonely crowd

    Back in the 60’s , David Riesman already concluded that “the more might not be the merrier”. Social network researchers have come up with diverse conclusions about Facebook and Internet use. Passive vs active participation makes a difference whether we are happier or less happy when using social media. We have yet fully exploited this…

  • Your story

    During the 60’s, when computers were too limited for personal use, Andy Warhol had already predicted that in the future (which is NOW) each of us would have 15 minutes of fame (just like his signature Campbell soup ). Naturally, he couldn’t have predicted the rise of social media  which upend traditional broadcast media, turning it…

  • Disco distraction

    That’s what we need. Late 70’s, we also got gas price hike. We got “a crisis of confidence”. And we got Middle East hostage situation that drove Nightline ratings over the top.  But we also got disco. It helped. Distraction did not solve any problem. It just got our minds off the situation at hand. For however…