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: Father

  • Content and Creativity.

    Time spares no one. That continuum ticks on, breath by breath, counting down and counting you out. Yet family bond endures. It has been that way for centuries: hunting and gathering, agrarian and industrial society. The very moment we fear that the machine will take over, that’s when we got Social, from Twist to Tweet.…

  • Papa’s shoes

    When you karaoke in Vietnam, you are likely to hear Papa along with Hotel California and Casablanca. Something ends with an “a”. I have blogged about Mom’s Ao Dai. So to be fair, here is “Papa‘s shoes“. At lunch, I was joined by a boy and his Dad (it’s common in Asia at peak hours…

  • Daughter-Daddy

    Before my daughter arrived, I had heard of other people’s birth complications which required C-section etc… So we took up Lamaze classes, and I felt “effeminated” among men and women with pillows. When I drove A. home the hospital  offered to wheel her out (already strapped in the car seat to begin with). In the parking lot (A.’s first outing) some…