BeyondBounds.org is getting a make-over. For the last month I have been familiarizing myself with WordPress and basic blogging techniques and understanding. I’m finally ready to launch this blog, so over the next couple of weeks I’ll be working hard on re-designing, re-focusing, and finally launching this site.
Design:
I’m completely overhauling this blog. [...]
There is a grand canyon between Acceptance and Tolerance and it has huge implications for international and intercultural communication. When two people of different lifestyles meet, they have a choice: to accept the other person, to tolerate him, or to not tolerate him. Obviously the latter choice doesn’t end well, but the former [...]
If you don’t have the skills to handle transactions that have gone wrong, which happens more often while abroad due in part to obvious language and cultural reasons, chances are you are going to become resentful of the country and its citizens.
Sure, they aren’t perfect, but neither are you. Get it right on [...]
What do you do in your free time in your home country? Do you play sports? Video games? Watch TV? Write a blog? Sing? Whatever it is you do in your home country, it is even more important that you keep doing it when you go abroad. This [...]
Beyond Bounds has been a solid idea of mine for a few months now, although it’s been brewing for over a year. I discovered blogging in early 2007 and wanted to use this platform to tell the world about my experiences in China. I started a blog at blogspot, which I wrote for [...]
