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: IKEA

  • Shared dishes

    Suzie Wong. Suzie Q. Lazy Suzan. All the S’s in stereotypes. All boils down to a round table full of shared dishes, each could easily meet  your dai;ly cholesterol quota. Half roasted duck, half chicken ginger etc…. Hong Kong cuisine, served in Herndon (VA). I thought about Nixon’s trip to China, and how many shared dishes he tasted…

  • Blogging is sharing

    It is also fun. Certainly it is not work. An insight here, a discovery there. Hey, look at this! I still remember appearing in a school play (Elementary). Got a lot of laughs from the student body (playing a mother, Tootsie style). Somewhere along the way, we have lost the inclination for play, the urge…

  • Trading down: Gap to Goodwill

    You know how good the economy is by seeing how many Hummers are on the street. But we 2.5 per cent growth 1Q 2013, we go from Hummers to Hyundai, from Gap to Goodwill. With 90% debt level, half-a-million debt per man woman and child, trading down is the least of our worries (Patriotic millionaires asked to pay more tax,…

  • Forced leisure

    MSNBC  interviews a blogger from Good magazine on automation nation. The take away: automation is moving beyond manufacturing sector (e.g. Google test drove an unmanned vehicle in California, or Italian researchers tested a driver-less van, from Italy to China) to service sectors, such as health care . Japan has been deep into robotic technology, a national policy…

  • I am “FONT” of you

    The New Zealand health-care admin lady wanted to go for broke with her emphatic mode (ALL CAPS). She got what she had wanted: people’s and the court’s attention. Fired, compensated but out of a job. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/148175 To make sure forms were filled correctly, she applied a new tactic, ALL CAPS, and perhaps not without a…

  • It’s a good IKEA

    A billion+  prospects. Wow! http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-ikea25-2009aug25,0,3900096,full.story IKEA in China. More  a  theme park then a show room. They try, they buy. Today it’s the A/C and ambience. Tomorrow, it will be CHIKEA everywhere (not only the font, but spelling change as well!). One thing China does well is to mass-produce these household items on the scale…