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“Women will never win, Women will never give up.”
“Women will never win, Women will never give up.” I saw that spray-painted onto a wall in Stuttgart Germany. The phrase is about women’s eternal struggle for equal rights. Every country, without a...
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An excerpt from Where the Wind Blows: Squatting in France.
I lived in Europe on a little more then a dollar a day. The following is an except from one of my chapters in my book Where the Wind Blows. After you read it, you might have an idea of how I managed to...
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Chinese food is the best food in the world.
I’ve been traveling 8 years now so I have a bit of experience when I tell you that Chinese food is the best in the world! Don’t get me wrong I love so many foods in so many cultures, but overall China...
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A father raising his son
Around China I get a lot of odd looks, it’s not my blond hair, or the fact that I’m American but the fact that I am walking around alone with my son strapped to my chest. Chinese and western families...
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Efun Studios
When I applied for my undergraduate and graduate universities, I had to write essays called personal statements. I wrote them, and wow they were awful. At 18 and at 22, I was a terrible writer. My...
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A war no more
Source: Teacher Wise Dong loves to tell stories while sipping cheap Vietnamese beer. Dong grew up in a world where one season brought lifesaving rain and another brought life taking bombs. Dong, like...
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“I’m too dark,” My wife complained.
“You’re crazy” I wanted to say, but I wanted to live, so instead I told her “Your milk chocolate skin is beautiful and you’re lucky, at least you’re not red. My wife is Chinese, if you put her in a...
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Relaxing in Phnom Penh
If you’re in Phnom Penh someone is bound to tell you to go explore the local markets. They might tell you to go to the Russian Market, where you can find cheap handicrafts, pirated brand name clothes,...
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Pizza for China.
I fist publish this for New Express, a newspaper in China. The writing style is the way it is to allow the newspaper to translate it was easy as possible. Enjoy- I offered my mother in law a slice of...
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Silly Titanic
Ok guys, first I am a terrible actor, really I am, but a Director in China asked me to do a simple scene where I replaced Jack in Titanic with myself. If I did a good job, he would give me a part or...
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Gifts
This first appeared on New Express, a Chinese newspaper I write for. They really like when I write cultural conflict pieces…. My mother came to China for the first time after my son was born. She...
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the Trans-Pacific Partnership
New Express, a Chinese Newspaper I write for asked me to write about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and help explain some of the effects so that the Chinese people will understand it. Of course I had to...
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Shameless
Kissing is a normal for me. In my culture it’s normal, and because it is my wife that I am kissing, it’s even more normal. When I leave for work I kiss my wife. When I come back home I kiss her again....
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What does Dr. Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize in Medicine say about Chinese Medicine?
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper. Congratulations China, you just got another Nobel Prize. Well, it wasn’t exactly China, but a Chinese Doctor named Tu Youyou. About 40...
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Immigration to China, and fake marrages
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper. I’m sure everyone has seen movies about how people will marry Americans and try to get citizenship in America. Of course this is not just...
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The Best bar(s) in Guangzhou, China
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper. Bars in China are either alive, or dead. By alive I mean people are interacting, chatting, joking and the atmosphere seems friendly and...
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I love traveling with my son
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper. Me and my son with a friend and his daughter. We are sitting out to explore the mountainous jungle of the Philippines. I love traveling...
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Learning to speak can be difficult
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper. Learning many cultures takes time, but baby’s absorb culture and language almost instantly. My son is learning to speak, but he is slow....
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Two types of arguments but many types of icecream
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper… This time, we shared the ice cream :) When people are arguing with you, they have a few different types of arguments. The first, and...
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Raising my Miles
Originally written for New Express, a major Chinese newspaper… There is nothing wrong with eating a little bit of sand…at least it taught him not to eat sand again. For the most part, my wife and I...
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