Sorrow

It was less than two weeks ago that Ka-duc Luong wrote here about his experience fleeing from Cambodia as a baby with his mother, and told of her incredible bravery and perseverance to save her family.  My deepest sympathies now go out to Kai and his family, upon learning that his mom has unexpectedly passed…

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Kai’s Story: A View from Someone who is not really Chinese, Cambodian, French or United Statian (or is all of the above?)

 Thank you and welcome to guest blogger Kai-Duc Luong. Kai has lived in the US for the last 11 years, 10 of them working in corporate America.  He left the corporate side to fully pursue his dream of being a filmmaker a year or so ago, to devote his attention to finishing the feature-length documentary…

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White Privilege and the World Economy

 My husband and I were talking about the economy over breakfast this morning and he shared that he read in O Globo, Brazil’s major daily paper, that Americans saw a $1.7 trillion first quarter loss in net worth.  His commentary on that was that “the U.S. is losing its place as the unchallenged leader of the…

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