Tag: Vietnam
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What’s the Future of Complication Like?
I’ve been thinking about my recent blog post The Good Old Less Complicated Days and started wondering about my kids: will they look back upon the 2010s as the “Good Old Less Complicated Days?” The premise of my post was this: our modern world has become so complicated that I sometimes wonder if life before gadgets and…
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My Life is Marked by Lychee Season
It strikes me every year. And I’m always surprised at how fast it comes and how it doesn’t feel like another year has passed. Without warning, one day, I see this. Lychees are in season once a year, starting in mid-May and running through early June. They are grown in sub-tropical climates. I became accustomed…
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Another Example of Symbolism Over Substance
I’ve lived in Asian for most of the last twenty years in both Vietnam and Malaysia. And while their cultures and histories are varied to say the least, there are some common themes which are obvious to me in many ways. One of these cultural themes which I have experienced on countless occasions in both…
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Snow in the Province of Ho Chi Minh’s Birth!
I saw this article yesterday and I was shocked: snow in Nghe An province in northern Vietnam. Nghe An is about 300 km south of Hanoi – and it has never even snowed in Hanoi! I lived in and around Hanoi for many years, and we certainly had our cold periods each year – especially…
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A Jaunt into Philosphy 3: Absolutism vs. Relativism
Here’s my third attempt at philosophy. This one on absolutism vs. relativism. Can it be determined that some actions are right and other actions wrong? Can one culture’s traditions be morally inferior to that of another? For example, a western person may look on in strange curiosity when a Vietnamese family gets together to celebrate…
Author Mark W Sasse 