Culture in the Blender

Even though I have tried imagining that I’d lived all my life in every country I’ve lived in, I’m starting to come to the conclusion that I never have and never will understand completely what life is like when you’ve only lived in one country. I can project and imagine, and that works well for […]

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I can’t help but acknowledge that part of the identity shift I mentioned yesterday is due to the fact that it is becoming difficult for me to see myself as fully American in the current political situation. Part of it is due to the foreign policy and the propaganda circulating to support it, which I […]

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I am realizing that I am switching more and more to considering myself primarily a TCK, simply because it’s easier. I can point to concerns in my life and say “Oh, it comes up from time to time for most TCKs” or “It’s common for TCKs to feel that way”. I can’t say that very […]

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I’m in a cafe, doing homework, listening to the same drum and bass I’ve been listening to on the bus and walking around buildings. When I listen to it, I feel like the world is different.
When I listen to techno, the world is moving forward together. We - generation e - are growing into the […]

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I have heard a lot of statements to the extent that the future does not belong to America lately. I have to seriously ask myself whether that is true. If the future does not belong to America, then it may be in my best interest to leave after my Ph. D.. My task must therefore […]

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Learning a new language is learning new ways to express yourself.
Becoming part of a new language and culture is to make yourself more than you were.
At the heart of true multiculturalism lies multilingualism.

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My current book is The New Imperialism by David Harvey, and it seems very interesting and well-written (in an academic tone, even!) but above all question raising. A number of things have caught my attention already.
In the course of examining hegemony and how hegemony is exercised, Harvey naturally examines the particular case of the United […]

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I’m reading my daily round of news on the Globalist and on BBC News. In light of what I read yesterday and the day before that, I can’t help but wonder what these backlashers make of news items like that the UK will help pay some of Africa’s debts, that the train fire that prompted […]

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Still reading What’s the Matter with Kansas? and I am again simultaneously enlightened and confused. Enlightened, as to what has happened in the US on the grassroots level domestically. Confused, as to how I can understand so little of the emotions and perceptions that have given rise to this backlash and as to how I […]

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I strongly recommend What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives won the Heart of America to anyone who is as confused as I am over how the political situation can be what it is. Today’s dose of reading was very explanatory again, and I’m starting to realize that a lot of things have happened domestically […]

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