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: Liberia

  • Mobile books

    I was waiting for my scooter ride outside Cho Ray Hospital when a peddler approached me. “Want to pick something to read?”. Turned out, she was selling used books, in a box: Cu Chi Tunnel, My Lai Massacre, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Sorrows of War, Understanding Vietnam… Those subjects are now as old…

  • 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…