Interesting food for thought...as if I don't have enough. Lol. Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post. Long ago, I realized my root desire to slow travel across the globe is to find my "tribe" that has escaped my "white bread life." I long for the family unit and a community that embraces friends, laughter, sharing and support rather than possessions. Working for years with clients from all over the world had me pressing my face against the windows peering into the souls of other cultures. This is why I love dining and dancing in the streets with the locals regardless of race, creed, color or age.
I'm so excited to embrace my future with my darling hubby (he's a bit more square....but funny as hell and super smart with his obscure references) and hoping to meet wonderful explorers like yourself and Brent & Michael along the way. (Hmm...now I'm going to goole what my AB Negative Blood type means to the Japanese). A psychology student for life with a business major working in Interior design.
I'm pumped to have you here, Melody! It only took you one paragraph for me to think, "Damn! This is one of my people." I'm looking forward to keeping in touch.
Hope so, Nolan. We have to sell our home in our suburban neighborhood and then it is hit the road, Jack. We will book a one-way ticket that is a good deal to Europe and 1 hotel and then we will figure it out as we go. MD
Great read Nolan, and thank you for including references. I'm a third culture kid too, and I'm in the capstone portion of finishing up a master of science in psychology. If you are interested, check out the field of social psychology - it's aligned with cultural psychology.
Thank you! At UBC (University of British Columbia), I had to take social psychology before taking cultural psychology. Several years later, social and cultural psychology papers are the majority of academic papers I read. I just subscribed. I looking forward to reading more and diving into your research.
Very interesting stuff. I've been thinking about Asian societal norms vs American norms quite a bit lately after a couple of very interesting encounters we've had. I think there's a future newsletter in it!
Interesting food for thought...as if I don't have enough. Lol. Seriously, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post. Long ago, I realized my root desire to slow travel across the globe is to find my "tribe" that has escaped my "white bread life." I long for the family unit and a community that embraces friends, laughter, sharing and support rather than possessions. Working for years with clients from all over the world had me pressing my face against the windows peering into the souls of other cultures. This is why I love dining and dancing in the streets with the locals regardless of race, creed, color or age.
I'm so excited to embrace my future with my darling hubby (he's a bit more square....but funny as hell and super smart with his obscure references) and hoping to meet wonderful explorers like yourself and Brent & Michael along the way. (Hmm...now I'm going to goole what my AB Negative Blood type means to the Japanese). A psychology student for life with a business major working in Interior design.
I LOVE JAPAN....
I'm pumped to have you here, Melody! It only took you one paragraph for me to think, "Damn! This is one of my people." I'm looking forward to keeping in touch.
Hope so, Nolan. We have to sell our home in our suburban neighborhood and then it is hit the road, Jack. We will book a one-way ticket that is a good deal to Europe and 1 hotel and then we will figure it out as we go. MD
Great read Nolan, and thank you for including references. I'm a third culture kid too, and I'm in the capstone portion of finishing up a master of science in psychology. If you are interested, check out the field of social psychology - it's aligned with cultural psychology.
Thank you! At UBC (University of British Columbia), I had to take social psychology before taking cultural psychology. Several years later, social and cultural psychology papers are the majority of academic papers I read. I just subscribed. I looking forward to reading more and diving into your research.
Very interesting stuff. I've been thinking about Asian societal norms vs American norms quite a bit lately after a couple of very interesting encounters we've had. I think there's a future newsletter in it!
I'm looking forward to reading about these encounters!