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Links roundup (Norway edition)

by Jessica Marsden on June 30, 2009

Norway wasn’t lacking for Internet connections, but I wasn’t exactly eager to spend time glued to a computer screen. As a result, my welcome-home present was a Google Reader crowded with new and interesting posts. A few of the highlights: The recent uptick in Chinese web censorship: Rebecca Mackinnon offers a comprehensive roundup of “The [...]

Tagged as: culture shock, Internet, links, practicalities

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How to explain a year in China

by Jessica Marsden on June 30, 2009

I came back from Norway last night, and was greeted by my Google Reader with Matt’s extremely resonant post on the problem of “reverse culture shock.” I’ve been back in the home-orbit (counting Norway, since I traveled there with college friends) for almost two weeks, and the question of how to explain the past year [...]

Tagged as: culture shock, United States

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