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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  • Last summer day

    The academic calendar starts just about now. A different season. Different drum beat. Formula and conjugation. Grades and test scores. Cafeteria and classroom. Principal and peers. Pranks and punishment. Same starting point, different finish lines. Education is democratic in nature. I admire people in wheel chairs, still being wheeled their way around the library, trying to reach…

  • Certain summer

    For young people, it’s a time for recreation, renewal and reviewing school materials. For politicians, it’s time to pay the bills from Cold Wars, Star Wars, and Gulf Wars …. For us, consumers, it’s a time to conserve fuel and energy, or just to stay cool. One quote sticks, uttered by a friend of those…

  • Disco distraction

    That’s what we need. Late 70’s, we also got gas price hike. We got “a crisis of confidence”. And we got Middle East hostage situation that drove Nightline ratings over the top.  But we also got disco. It helped. Distraction did not solve any problem. It just got our minds off the situation at hand. For however…