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: tech and multi-cultural marketing

  • A shot in the arm

    On this day (9/11), like everyone else, I thought I could not find a silver lightning… that is, until I read about one shot instead of two is sufficient to prevent H1N1. Go doc go. Coming in October at the Walgreen near you. When I grow up, I kept hearing that misery seeks company. H1N1…

  • Games gone wild!

    The MONOPOLY board game has moved online and its servers crashed. Too much buying and “getting out of jail”. http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/09/09/worlds-biggest-monopoly-game-crashes-online/ And the Beatles rock band as well (now a game). The mechanical universe is handing the reign over to its digital counterpart, with Jobs its new High Priest. We are building our 21st century Cathedral,…

  • climb baby climb!

    My 65-pound 6 year-old daughter wanted to climb, with safety rope and belt of course. While whipping out $5.00 for her three attempts, I reflected on my own White Mountain Wilderness experience, and subsequently, my Mexico expedition with her sister atop the Mayan pyramid. Different mother, yet same propensity. Must be hard-wired in their genes.…

  • A shot at fame

    Tequila filed charges. The Charger turned charged this time. And he will miss practice on Monday. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/chargers/2009-09-06-shawne-merriman-arrested_N.htm The host of A Shot At Love on MTV, Tila Tequila (Nguyen), said she was choked when trying to leave his house. But, according to him, she was drunk  and he was just trying to keep her from…

  • Fashion faux pas

    Here we go, Lions, here we go. Last year,  there was a Nittany Lions “white out”, with 20,000 wearing all white (post Labor Day) at  Beaver Stadium. http://www.csmonitor.com/photosoftheday/index.php?image=5&date=specials/last_chance_summer/ It’s time to unpack those sweaters, and look forward to the traditional  Thanksgiving season. I cherish those autumn moments at my parents’ s graves in Virginia where…

  • Learner-in-Chief

    If my memory serves me right, both First Ladies Bush, and their husbands read to school children (Ex-President G W Bush was sitting at one of those school chairs when he first heard about 9/11.) So it is hard for me to understand the uproar about President Obama’s Back-to-School speech. How can one protest something…

  • ABC talking head

    Hard to know how old she is, but we know she was around during the Nixon era (not sure her voice was on the White House tapes or not). But we  can see and hear her deliver the news every evening from 2010 on, and you won’t have to get up early. She is America’s…

  • I am “FONT” of you

    The New Zealand health-care admin lady wanted to go for broke with her emphatic mode (ALL CAPS). She got what she had wanted: people’s and the court’s attention. Fired, compensated but out of a job. http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/148175 To make sure forms were filled correctly, she applied a new tactic, ALL CAPS, and perhaps not without a…

  • I’ll meet you (online) at the (Wal)mall

    If Starbucks had been our 3rd place, then Amazon-like Wal-mall would like to be next, our 4th place (Miss Congeniality?). On the eve of EBAY selling 2/3 rd of its interest in SKYPE (SKY was sold, just PE is left) we saw the construction of a new type of mall, the online mall, our 21st…

  • A study in S & M

    This is a report on Teenage students as seen on BBC News: Worst drunkenness: UK Highest rate of bullying: Turkey Most affluent: Norway Best education: Finland Best local environment: Australia Least exercise: Switzerland Best housing: Norway Least risk: Sweden Highest suicide rate: New Zealand Enjoy school most: Turkey Enjoy school least: Czech Republic Turkey held…