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: California

  • California Dreaming

    TIME spotlights California on its cover this week. As a country, California would be with the G8 ( between Italy and Brazil, thus displacing BRIC with CRIC  i.e. California, Russia, India and China). Yet it has no world-class soccer team (despite having in-shored Beckham) just yet. That’s said, it is one of the brownest States…

  • Load balancing

    A few years back, we got headlines like “women made strides with Nobel prizes“. And I remember hearing our shared winner of Economics said she studied ways which societies managed to share work load, from fisheries to farming. I assumed she was trying to crack the “non-zero sum” code, or something similar to Network Theory…

  • Red lanterns

    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 married at least six times, concurrently.…

  • Apple in my eyes

      Everybody loves a winner. Today’s is Apple, starts with the “A” in the alphabet. Not bad for a college drop-out who then learned calligraphy, hung out with “evangelist” Kawasaki, forced out then came back to the tune of billions. He embodied the “I” in I-phone. I remember my first encounter with personal computers, and…