Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’
On Cultural Leveling
Thursday, February 26, 2009 1:33 No CommentsWe never knew what we didn’t have.
We enjoy America’s moniker of ‘melting pot’ as a feature that distinguishes us from other places. It seems a great American pastime to find this way or that way to distinguish ourselves, especially in areas of our obvious superiority, and one area of that superiority is in our [...]
Flashback: Indonesia
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:23 1 CommentMemories of Indonesia:
As Americans, we live in invisible test tubes of about an arm’s length called our space and we feel uncomfortable when someone violates it. In Indonesia, and in all of the non-western cultures that we visit, personal space does not exist, and we learn not to miss such space.
We use, wherever possible, local [...]