While one should have more than two interactions before fully judging a complex system, I am fully comfortable making the decree that Vietnamese marketplaces are crazier than navigating Bon lines during Admitted Students Weekend. On Wednesday, September 3rd 2014 I joined 12 other Lewis & Clark students, one Lewis & Clark professor, and a Vietnamese […]

Cities in Asia As an American, I’ve learned to love my elbowroom. The rolling golden hills and spacious California suburbs are what I call home. Yet soon I will be moving to Asia, which “is the largest region, with 30% of the global landmass and 60% of the world’s population… with 42% of its population […]

One of the annoyances I’ve experienced as an aspiring anthropologist are feelings of regret that cultures are changing at such an alarming rate and clambering to embrace western ideals and practices. I feel selfish for not wanting systems that have existed in other countries for perhaps thousands of years to disappear for the sake of […]

After reading the articles, I find the negative effects on the environment due to urbanization most concerning. Since Asian countries in past decades have been so focused on economic growth they have paid insufficient attention to the state of the environment and the effects that such large-scale urbanization have on it. This phenomenon is called […]

After reading the articles this week, the issue related to urbanization that I am most interested in learning about in Ho Chi Minh City is traffic, especially the increasing number of motor bikes and how that impacts the daily experience and safety of the people who drive them. According to the reading, the number of […]