http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/ No longer the new kid Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:42:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-512 Bubble boys and girls: Uncle is an island « kapookababy Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:23:20 +0000 http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-512 [...] this girl I had lunch with, and who said I was the first foreigner she’d ever met? Many other [...] [...] this girl I had lunch with, and who said I was the first foreigner she’d ever met? Many other [...]

]]> http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-447 Gatecrashing Brother’s ‘Australian Studies’ classes « kapookababy Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:07 +0000 http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-447 [...] Gatecrashing other people’s lectures is quickly becoming a regular habit of mine. As much as I love learning Unclese (no, really) I still need the kind of brain food that you can’t get from endless memorising of han zi (Unclese characters), or running through dialogues describing mingtian’s tianqi (tomorrow’s weather.) And I’m not going to pass up this golden opportunity to peek into Uncle’s university education system. [...] [...] Gatecrashing other people’s lectures is quickly becoming a regular habit of mine. As much as I love learning Unclese (no, really) I still need the kind of brain food that you can’t get from endless memorising of han zi (Unclese characters), or running through dialogues describing mingtian’s tianqi (tomorrow’s weather.) And I’m not going to pass up this golden opportunity to peek into Uncle’s university education system. [...]

]]> http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-446 Women & Children: the 11pm curfew for Unclese students « kapookababy Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:51:09 +0000 http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-446 [...] I’ve written previously, I do not consider them to be more “Western”, but more “International”. [...] [...] I’ve written previously, I do not consider them to be more “Western”, but more “International”. [...]

]]> http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-437 Jonathan Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:44:01 +0000 http://kapookababy.com/2009/10/21/local-exposure-3-unclese-interactions/#comment-437 Oh yes, how familiar is that defensive, over-the-top nationalism, so similar to a certain small middle eastern country. It's a real worry, though. It reminds me of certain other moments in history when a major up and coming power (Japan, Germany) was able to mobilize its population behind expansionist aggression because of this widespread self-absorbed, victimhood nationalism. Oh yes, how familiar is that defensive, over-the-top nationalism, so similar to a certain small middle eastern country. It’s a real worry, though. It reminds me of certain other moments in history when a major up and coming power (Japan, Germany) was able to mobilize its population behind expansionist aggression because of this widespread self-absorbed, victimhood nationalism.

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