I am planning a cocktail party. My guest list has people of four ethnicity categories from four continents. I’d have an even more varied guest list if distance wasn’t a factor.
Entries Tagged as 'Global Culture'
Global Lounge
November 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Distant Proximities · Global Culture
Global economy connectedness
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I apologize for not writing in an eternity or two - I am trying to conduct lots of experiments, write papers, and look for jobs at the same time. Needless to say, I have now broken my immune system and got sick.
Many interesting things have happened since I last blogged - like Russia’s imperialism rearing […]
Tags: Global Culture
The Neural Buddhists
May 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
A friend of mine sent me a link to an opinion article in the New York Times by David Brooks on the effect of the cognitive revolution on discussions about religion. He argues that the materialist-religious debates about the existence of God will be replaced by debates in which scientists whose spiritual beliefs overlap somewhat with Buddhism who challenge […]
Tags: Global Culture · Politics
I have returned home
March 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I’m back in Hotelland. I’m at a conference and staying at the conference hotel, the San Fransisco Marriott. (In line with being a typical TCK, I am becoming highly educated by getting a PhD in materials science and engineering.) Last night, I sat in the bar on the top floor looking out at the San […]
Tags: Affirmative Global · Betweening · Distant Proximities · Global Culture · Third Culture · Travel
Why is being Japanese cool?
February 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments
An older Racialicious post made me think of the attitude I’ve seen both online and in real life from some Americans, who seem to think it’s endlessly cool to be Japanese. I’m not really sure where this meme comes from. Americans are very patriotic, so what makes a subset of probably the most patriotic people […]
Tags: Global Culture · US
Brazilian Music
February 19th, 2008 · No Comments
I attended a latin jazz concert last Friday. It was very comforting. Brazilian (and by association, other latin-inspired) music feels familiar and comfortable, even though I’ve never been to Brazil. When I was a baby, my father was working on a big project in Brazil and bought Brazilian music there. When I had trouble sleeping, […]
Tags: Global Culture · Third Culture
春节快乐!
February 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: China · Global Culture
How the impact of stereotypes about gender and technology depend on where you are
February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The two classes I’m auditing intersected in an interesting way recently. In Judy Wajcman’s book Feminism Confronts Technology, there is a chapter on technology as masculine culture. One of the subsections is on engineering. Wajcman argues that
“central to the social construction of the engineer is the polarity between science and sensuality, the hard and the […]
Tags: Feminism · Global Culture · Politics
FlightBliss Tips & Tricks
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments
I imagine that most readers of this blog would be interested in FlightBliss, a blog all about how to wrangle your way into Business or First for as little money as possible. How useful is that?
Tags: Global Culture
Why Americans feel the need to play their music in public?
January 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I learned something interesting in my culture and psychology class the other day. Americans think that the world is more malleable than the self. (Whereas Chinese, and probably most everyone else, think that the self is more malleable than the world.) Maybe that’s why so many Americans play their music out loud without headphones on […]
Tags: China · Europe · Global Culture · US