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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  • To Die Another Day

    Those gene combination keeps going, mutating and evolving. Buddistically or biologically, we aren’t going to die today. Maybe another day. But not today (I am obviously blogging still, 957 and counting). Unlike a line in American Pie “too much whiskey and wine…this will be the day that I die”. Meanwhile, in the land of the…

  • Stars and stunts

    They stretched the truth to “show” it in better lights (as in Argo). They twisted some arms, pushed the envelopes and burned both ends of the candle (one end is dream, the other memories). They stepped into characters, sang the chorus and spoke the lines. Light, sound, camera and …”action”. Moving pictures. Marketing of dreams and…