[PN] Acculturation (13 May 2004)

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* Reference Websites

LanguageGuide.org
Study various languages in the language of one's choice,
running the mouse over illustrations to hear words pronounced
http://www.languageguide.org/
This "Audio Pictionary" was recommended by Will at Word Surfing:
http://www.wordsurfing.co.uk/

A new colleague just asked for sources on adjusting to a new culture.
For those interested in East Asia and the West, I suggest:

"Cultural Liberation: East-West Biculturalism for a New Century"
Multicultural Pavilion, International Project 
University of Virginia (March 1998)
http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/papers/mccarty.html

"East-West Cultural Differences in Basic Life Stance"
Japanese Institute of Global Communications
Tokyo: International University of Japan (May 2003)
http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/colloquium/20030526_mcCarty_east/

and other online publications available at the
Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection
http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html

* Periodical articles

Truckers taking to Wi-Fi
CNN.com > Technology, 7 May 2004 
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/05/07/wi.fi.trucking.ap/index.html

"From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004: War Crimes in Perspective"
by Herbert P. Bix
Japan Focus, 3 May 2004
http://www.japanfocus.org/112.html 

Cyber church: Now God goes online
By CNN's Marga Ortigas
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/12/uk.online.church/index.html

Church of Fools [the 3-D virtual church itself -- needs Shockwave]
http://www.shipoffools.com/church/index.html

Collegially, Steve McCarty
Professor, Osaka Jogakuin College, Japan
Online library: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
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