Category Archives: Culture
A new understanding on life
Note: This is a repost of a book outline with a new title and a little addition in the content. Our science so far hasn’t developed sufficiently to provide a proper understanding of human consciousness and development of human society. … Continue reading
Filed under About Software, Chan/Zen, Computer Software, Culture, Learning, life, Python, Social Software
Why I am here
I came to the states for the cause of education/learning. I have identified the education as the most important thing for China, as the thing that will make the real change. I recognized that for the macro-environment, it is better … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience, Natural Learning, Random Thoughts, unschooling
Consciousness/experiences cannot be transfered
In Zen, it is well-known that the masters insist that they have nothing to teach. They insist that their words cannot become the students’. The students have to experience for themselves. Yes, the consciousness/experiences cannot be transfered from one person … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, Random Thoughts, What is Learning
Community vs. Networking Part 2
In China, the media is very much controlled (in a different way the media in US is controlled), so it is hard to get to know what is going on at the national level. You read the reports in the … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Cross Culture Communication, Culture, Grassroots
A Puerto Rican fighting the whole west
Overhead a conversation of a dinner table besides me. The guy is from Puerto Rico. He is talking about Puerto Rican here don’t want to learn English and don’t want to learn all the things they don’t know here. They … Continue reading
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A free life by Ha Jin: how lonely can you be
I went through Ha Jin’s novel A Free Life quickly. One of my purpose of reading this book is to see what he has went through in his oversea life as an oversea writer who accomplished writing in English. The … Continue reading
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No Chinese food anymore–continuous exploration of space
I decided not to go eat Chinese food anymore except when I am going with some friends and they want to go to eat Chinese food. For myself, I am going to stay away from Chinese food. Initially I was … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience, unschooling, What is Learning
On self-help books and regrowing consciousness
This might be a little cynical. But I think there is some truth in it. I am sure someone else have said the same thing about self-help books before. What kind of people write self-help books? People who cannot accomplish … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Foreign Experience
Language, Culture, Human Brain, and Consciousness
Language, Culture, Human Brain, and Consciousness Human being are social creatures. A large part of brain/mind is for social functions. In a foreign land, because of the language barrier, those functions are rarely carried out, thus those parts of brain … Continue reading
Filed under Chan/Zen, Foreign Experience, unschooling
Something to help you learn about China
Oversea Chinese students like to put on shows in Chinese new year to showcase Chinese culture. I often feel it laughable. They don’t watch that kind of shows when they were in China. But here they felt those things represent … Continue reading
Filed under Cross Culture Communication, Culture
Language, mind, software learning, and liberal arts
5 years of fighting in China, I experienced true love and felt free. 7 years of fighting in US, I am stilling struggling with many basic things. This fight has been so long. In order to form memory, the mind … Continue reading
Filed under Business, Chan/Zen, Culture, Programming, What is Learning
About human languages
Language, however full of false/shallow concepts, serves as a very rich construct of human experience, which provides an immediate framework for mind to fly within. Losing the language makes the mind lose this framework to fly within. So the mind … Continue reading
Filed under Foreign Experience
Immigrants and English
All this “immigrants have to speak English” thing, I definitely support it. I also think to support this initiative, US government should allow foreigners to be able to stay in US for at least one year without having to work … Continue reading
It is up to the Iraqi people to decide whether American troops should stay or not
Listening to Democracy Now yesterday about the senate vote about withdrawing troops from Iraq, and about the poll saying that 70 percent of Americans favor withdrawing. I am a little amazed! Up to now, regarding Iraq, Americans still think completely … Continue reading
Filed under Culture
Why I only hang out with Americans
My friends asked me if I still hang out with Chinese much here since they saw me always interacting with Americans. Maybe this is a good time to answer this, for Americans and for my fellow oversea Chinese. The short … Continue reading
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You cannot choose history. You just participate in it.
As I am trying to integrate myself into the history of this country and this culture, I am still deeply concerned of the thread of history on the other side of the planet, the people in it, the struggles and … Continue reading
Combatants for peace
I went to listen to speech given by Combatants for Peace (http://www.combatantsforpeace.org/). I knew what they were going to say and I was highly supportive of this kind of activity. But I thought probably there were nothing new I could … Continue reading
Two movies about growing up
Watched two movies with friends, Rocky Balboa and Night at the Museum. Probably both movies are not artistically deep or sophisticated. Maybe both are simple (Night at the Museum kind of has a nice plot.) But both are touching enough, … Continue reading
Subway Superman
Man Is Rescued by Stranger on Subway Tracks – New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/nyregion/03life.html?_r=1&ex=157680000&en=07bb34bc4fee56ae&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg&oref=slogin) I am totally amazed. See something can be done and do it! No thinking. He probably knows he has a chance to make it. He probably also … Continue reading
Talking with my Brazilian roommate and get some knowledge about Brazil and South America
Talking with my Brazilian roommates and get some knowledge about Brazil and South America First all, he is Brazilian. But he doesn’t play soccer/football. He said even girls in Brazil plays soccer better than him. That is for sure. I’ve … Continue reading
Filed under Culture, Random Thoughts
