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: Buffalo New York

  • Matchmaking

    In Vietnam, one of the first questions is What animal represents you? (12 symbols of the zodiac). Second question is, how come you are single. Find someone to alleviate your miserable state of being single (collective society). Third and logical conclusion: find someone, whose symbol matches yours, yin-yan, fire and ice, earth and sky etc……

  • New voice new vision

    I browsed the DVD shelves at my local library (North Palm Beach) the other day, and saw Buffalo Boy next to Brokeback Mountain and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid.  It is by fate that the Cowboy and the Buffalo(boy) found themselves on the same DVD shelf, just like those black and white GI’s names…