tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post8635960166258751542..comments2024-03-29T12:05:09.910+07:00Comments on <b>Postcards from the End of [the] America[n Empire]</b>: WombwardLinh Dinhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-62366509708434109372017-10-15T05:18:58.931+07:002017-10-15T05:18:58.931+07:00But this phenomena is also taking place in the Uni...But this phenomena is also taking place in the United States, in the age of Betty DeVos as we move toward the privatization of virtually everything. I played multiple sports in high school, and which as a child from a highly dysfunctional home was not really a problem. But if I were a high school student today, how could I do it? Hey dad, I need money to pay for my pads (football) or cleats (baseball), he would have laughed in my face! Go get a job and pay for your own damn cleats. Why, as a fast-growing youngster me and my brothers went everyday to school in "floods," that's pants that barely reach the top of your ankles, and we were pretty much the joke of the community. But at least we had public school sports as some sort of a release valve! And which I loved because, as a victim of childhood abuse, I could exact violence/revenge within a socially acceptable setting, the playing field .. so America is a socialist nation? Well, maybe less now than before.swindledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035913786847702889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-67277464071069916212017-10-12T12:55:01.472+07:002017-10-12T12:55:01.472+07:00Hi Swindled,
Here's a primer on public educat...Hi Swindled,<br /><br />Here's a primer on public education in Vietnam, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/04/2013441131475898.html" rel="nofollow">"Vietnam: Where free education isn't so free."</a><br /><br /><br />Linh<br /><br />Linh Dinhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284893230469697578.post-66026180505990690032017-10-11T11:00:19.345+07:002017-10-11T11:00:19.345+07:00I don't understand. There are no public school...I don't understand. There are no public schools in Vietnam? And why is everyone walking backwards? And which reminds me, after showing all the great ways in which Vietnam has benefited from globalization, the Hanoi skyline and flourishing entrepreneurship etc.(indeed, I believe that among emerging economies few have done as well) didn't you find your sudden shift to the virtuous inoculating effect of Vietnamese ethnocentrism toward the end a bit jarring? p.s. the food looks super yummyswindledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00035913786847702889noreply@blogger.com