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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  • Winner takes all

    We will hear a lot of ABBA‘s Happy New Year this week. But “the Winner Takes It All” speaks directly to our zeo-sum society. You lose, I win. There are only limited “chips” on the table. Scarcity causes rising values. Hot air also rises. Like New Year’s champagne bubbles. It’s time for a 2012 wrap up.…

  • Being Here-Being There

    “Being There” was first released years ago. Peter Sellers portrayed an illiterate gardener who had been walled in all his adult life. His only window to the world was through the TV screen. Hence his speech and demeanor replicated sound bites and screen gestures (awaiting for a “cut” to commercials). Shirley McClain played a society…

  • I want my Skype call!

    By now, we all know about our right to make a phone call when being arrested. That phone call usually is placed from a pay phone (soon to be a museum piece). Skype has been down (and slowly back up to full speed), and 26 million users worldwide felt the pinch. VoIP. Conversation chopped into…