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Back… home?

Posted in Being a chameleon, Cultural differences, England, Friendships, Hidden immigrant, Internationalism, Lac d'Annecy, Me, Roots, Society, TCK on September 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »

For the first time in 15 months, I’m in England.  And guess what – it’s raining!
Well not now, but it was earlier.  But that’s not the point anyway, and even if it was, you have to laugh about it, otherwise you’d cry.  But this isn’t exactly a joyous ‘homecoming’.  I can’t say I missed England much [...]

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The UN

Posted in Internationalism, Politics, Society on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This isn’t very TCK-related, but it’s essentially an international topic and it cracks me up. I found an article entitled “Why the United States just doesn’t get the United Nations”. The article’s kind of interesting, but what caught my attention was the second comment, at the bottom:

All very flowery, but why would we [...]

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What next – Iraq in the EU??

Posted in Politics, Society on December 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This is slightly old news, but a few weeks ago David Miliband, the UK’s foreign secretary, gave a speech in Bruges about his view on the future of the EU. One of his points was that he thinks that the expansion of the EU is key and that the border of the union shouldn’t be [...]

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