The awkwardness of culture clash in romance
Chinadaily.com.cn has a great article about the differences between gender roles in Chinese and American culture and the difficulties it could cause for intercultural couples. If you’re Chinese and dating an American or vice-versa, you owe it to your relationship to read this article. Check it out [...]
I came across this video about a kid singing Whitney Houston’s version of “I Will Always Love You” on the Taiwanese “Idol” show Super Star Avenue the other day on TheSun.co.uk, but since I was at work, I didn’t actually watch it. But by the time I got home, I had received email from [...]
The awesomeness that is Hong Kong: Reason enough to learn Cantonese.
A friend of mine just sent me a link to a New York Times article about how Cantonese is slowly dying out in New York’s Chinatown. I couldn’t help but get a little sad reading it. Sure, it’s a ridiculously difficult [...]
I recently went on a long trip up to the northeast of the United States. My first stop was New York. I love New York…the excitement, the mass of people from all backgrounds, the public transportation! But driving and parking aren’t so fun. My first day there, I took my trusty [...]
A couple of months ago, I commented on the Magibon phenomenon and how her videos are both infuriatingly pointless and incredibly mesmerizing. I didn’t expect it, but that post for some reason put the site right near the top of Google’s search results when you search for her name. Apparently a lot of [...]
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