Yoknapatawpha

Recently, it was Russian tourists who have been stranded by unscrupulous Russian tour agencies,

today it's the Aussies being stranded by a mis-managed Aussie airline.

I wonder what nationality will be hit next by businesses in their homeland?

My bet is on the Greeks

my bet is on the States...

why would the story print the names of the deceased but not the name of the driver? seems tasteless.

The U.S. college that I completed my My PhD dissertation case study on has just opened at least one campus in Vietnam. You can find their open positions bySEARCHING for Vietnamese specific openings. They pay really well if you are qualified. They also pay well in China :jap:

For obvious reasons, I cannot disclose the name of the college, but y'all are smart. :-)

Here's an article that 'claims' to know the college I studied. HERE

hot cracklin' bread with buttermilk.

for the uninitiated:

Cracklins=pork skin, fresh, with the lard cooked out.

add a handful of cracklins to your favorite cornbread recipie, and bake as usual.

take it out, cut it while it's hot, and dump it in a bowl.

add some fresh buttermilk over that, and enjoy!

Nearly everything else I missed, I can cook in China; the fact that nobody has proper ovens here, makes cooking cornbread (or any sort of breads/cakes) next to impossible.

peace y'all,

Yok

It is not related to any major event on earth, but rather a cultural trait which is hard to change.

I must disagree with that, until you provide some data.

Here is a link to some data that bolsters my disagreement.

http://socialdistancesurvey.com/data/SDSU.pdf

"social distance tends to be a function of worldly events.

Bogardus (1926, 1946, 1956, and 1966) found that this trend

continued over time. In his 1926 study, the Turks were the most outcast of all groups

surveyed. This was attributed to the national and worldly headlines, detailing the Turks'

atrocities toward the Armenians. Bogardus' 1946 research had the Japanese at the

bottom of the list, probably due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the 1956 study. the

Japanese rose dramatically, and Bogardus attributed this to the newly democratized

Japan, under U.S. occupation (Bogardus, 1968). In the 1966 survey, Koreans were at

the bottom, while "Negroes" began their upward move in the rankings (Owen, et al,

1978). In the same 1978 study, Owen, et al, found that Southeastern Asians occupied

most of the lower rankings on the social distance scale."

In the same (May, 1993) study, of which that previous quote is contained in the lit. review, I found that

"social distance is a function of worldly events.The out-groups receiving the highest social distance scores were the Iraqis (M = 3.47,

SD = 2.14) and Iranians (M = 3.34, SD = 2.03). Overall, every group from the region wecall the "Mid-East" was ranked very low."

peace,

Yok

p.s.

feel free to participate in the survey :-)

http://socialdistancesurvey.com

What?

Oh just another mail from crackdown.com or was it thaivisa.com?

seriously?

we are not making the news, just reporting them

are we still safe in Chiang Mai? I'd hate to know I couldn't finish my running games of Scrabble!

Maybe I just got lucky but it seems to be the opposite way here in Kunming China.

When my wife and I decided to marry (three years ago this September) we wanted to buy a place. She went and told her Mom and Dad. They were furious with her; "how can we ask him for money to buy you a house when our family has so many houses?!) they scolded and scolded her, then arranged a 'meeting' with me to discuss our options.

Basically, they wanted to give us a home, or buy us a new one, but would not accept a penny (jiao here actually) of my money for it. We wound up re-decorating one of their houses in the city (near my wife's office) and moving in. No rent allowed. I think my wife may have actually managed to "buy" it from her parents, but I've still not paid a cent on it.

I do think some of her Mom's family has asked her mom for money, thinking they they struck it rich by getting a Laowai (means Farang) in the family but she tells them to go away.

Anybody else on this list living in China and want to comment?

We had three days of torrential downpour here in Kunming, but the sun is out today (as of an hour ago) and revving up our solar water heaters again!

I am presently trying to change my flights from Khartoum to Dubai (done) to Bangkok (pending) to Chiang Mai (done) and accommodation in Dubai (pending) and telling the company that I am leaving this shithole a day early.

The party had better be worth it.

I can assure you that it will be, for me, if you make it.

The last one was, for sure. I haven't posted enough nor will I be in the area, but have fun fellas and gals! ROCK ON!

I chatted with some of you in CM about the global economy and China. We mentioned diferent aspects of negotiation between Asian cultures and Western Cultures.

We also got round to some rock-n-roll issues. Here's a link to a paper that explores a relationship between some of the issues... hehe enjoy.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=984906

peace,

Yok

If you can read (or have a friend that can) Mandarin, Taobao.com has all the shoes you could ever find anywhere. They are made in China and shipped to Russia and the U.S. (the big sizes) by all the proper brands. As an example, I pay 760 RMB (about 100 US) for THREE pair of Merrell including shipping; I'd pay that much and more for ONE pair in the States.

They do ship anywhere in the world.

Maybe it'll help.

Yok

I enjoyed meeting everyone. I remember real names, but not handles for everyone. My bad. I put a post (F`n good party) up before I read this one. Again, my bad.

Of course that guy from Boston (D&@N yankee) that kept me out until daylight drinkin' Jameson is on my list of ppl to forget...

Yok (from Kunming, so those of you I met will remember me)

It was a blast Buckwheat & MiltonBently and everyone else (whose usernames I cannot remember at this time) . The food was excellent and there were more than enough beers to get everyone in a good mood. Of course Crow Boy is never in a good mood . The afterparties were good too, what I remember of them. I made it back to kunming... half alive.

Thanks.

Yok