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.

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  • Bleed purple!

    Red States Blue States United. Bleed purple. Gotta to reach across the aisles. Gotta to overcome complacency and condescending. The time it takes to come up with a retort could be spent for constructive use. Nobody has the right to the last word. History is dynamic and constantly being re-written. (If you read Church History…

  • Then came the rain

    It rained on the book fair here in Saigon. Word and water don’t mix. But I must admit seeing young readers eager to browse anything and everything, even kissing the note books we handed out, warms my heart. I can relate to why the Happiness Index listed top countries such as Costa Rica and Vietnam. Money might…

  • Burning flesh, jasmine scent

    I used to live just a few blocks from where it happened on that fateful day in 1963. As an active kid, I joined the throng to witness history in the making: monk’s self-immolation as a peaceful act of protest against the Diem’s dictatorship. The city had been permeated with the smell of tear gas…

  • white balance

    Digital TV is here. Selected reality represented by a series of 1’s and 0’s. I miss the Indian-head poster TV studios used to put up to “white balance” and signal align their cameras before each broadcast. The jump from analog TV to digital TV will be more significant than the jump from B/W to color…