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Wednesday, June 8. 2011

Us and Them - How does my city integrate? - Kuala Lumpur Audio

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Shooting Stars

in Kuala Lumpur at 15:41 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Us and Them - How does my city integrate? - Kuala Lumpur Video

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Shooting Stars

in Kuala Lumpur at 15:16 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

It's No God Eat God World

four religious institutions on a Sunday in one locality

"Jesus For The Jugular" The Veils

Sahar Lone

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Sahar Lone

in Auckland at 10:29 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

Wedding in the past was a typical feature of Vietnamese tradition. The traditional wedding itself was a connection among generations of Hanoians as people would find the things familiar that they experienced in their weddings. But now, the awareness about marriage ceremony is changing when people get influenced by Internet, Western culture when they go to study abroad or contact with western people go on tour or live in Vietnam, etc.

A wedding with the bride and groom dressed in Western style and a mini gambling- house organized for the wedding participants.

Continue reading "Hanoi and Integration." »

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Nguyen Viet Hung

in Hanoi at 09:48 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Hanoi: Immigrants - same, same?

It's always the same problem with immigrants: they prefer to live in their own neighborhoods. Even after several years in a foreign country their language skills are still so poor that they can not even read official letters. They prefer to buy the same food they eat at home in their small, foreign shops. And even after many years they have few friends among the locals.

We’re talking here about, no, not immigrants in Germany. We’re talking about the Germans in Hanoi. Continue reading "Hanoi: Immigrants - same, same?" »

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David Frogier de Ponlevoy

in Hanoi at 04:12 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)