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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  • Heart and Soul

    The intangible qualities. We can only recognize them when we see them. How can we put a measure on that which makes us human i.e. mortal yet full of life versus a machine whose sole existence is to carry out instructions and perform repetitive tasks without getting bored (the sad thing is when the machine gets…

  • Monsoon and Moonfest

    Overhearing some people talking about rain in Dalat, Vietnam‘s mountainous area, I thought back to a time and a place where innocence was shred like old skin. You see, growing up in Vietnam even in the midst of the war, was still something to be cherished. You might have neighbor’s funeral with flag draped over…

  • Women: mystery and macho

    I wasn’t the one who opened up this Pendora box. Stephen Hawking did. In a recent interview, he had mentioned that the biggest mystery in the universe was women. You and I could have said that. Girl with the Dragon Tatoo. Girls gone wild. Valley girls. In 2011, we got an election in Liberia which…

  • Transparent trail

    I saved up my visual history in 3/4 inch, VHS, slides, prints, CDs, hard-drive, flashdrive and cloud. Not so much for me, but for my daughters . That collage documented my fits and starts. Each person is a narrative whose ending remains a mystery ( ‘in my end, is my beginning”). In the Year of Magical Thinking, the widow-writer kept wishing that…