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: Star Wars

  • Twice the romance

    For almost a century, we have gotten used to Hollywood‘s sunset scenes of the Pacific (they could even make Skid Row desirable). Now, fiction is trumped by recent discovery of a two-sun planet. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/215013/20110916/planet-two-suns-star-wars-kepler-16-b-tatooine-seti.htm Sunset scenes will need to be re-cut. Twice the work. But also, twice the romance. As evolving species, we will adapt,…

  • 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…

  • On Seeing

    With YouTube, Skype Video and 4-G network, we will be watching a lot of video. Some content was finally “remastered” to be added on to the collective archive in the cloud. Yet, we neglect to clean our lenses and learn to see as if for the first time. The sense of wonder, curiosity, marvel, or…