An International Community… (VIDEO)

Posted by Uncle Dan on March 4th, 2008 | Categorized as General Forum | 206 views and 3 Comments

What I’ve seen on this site is that a lot of people seem to be alone, or have left their international lifestyles behind somewhat. There’s a feeling that once you’ve left it, it’s gone, and you have to live with the results. And that can be really lonely.

It was that way for me leaving my international school in Jakarta for the US, and it was a lucky break coming to Switzerland and entering a whole new international community.

And since it’s nearing the end of my degree, I decided that for the purposes of memories, recording, and also for my interest in how multicultural communities interact and the benefit they gain out of them, I started doing short video interviews. I’m still working on getting more, and it’s nowhere near finished (considering what other work I have to do), but I worked up a little trailer.

It does my heart good to hear all the different nationalities. I hope it does for you too.

And since embedding from YouTube doesn’t seem to be working, I’ll post the hyperlink until it does.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmGBDxDx2g

Daniel Nguyen-Phuoc

Vietnamese in ethnicity, born in Houston, Texas. Lived in Jakarta, Indonesia for 14 years while going to a British International School to finish with the International Baccalaureate. Survived only two years in the University of Michigan before ending up in Switzerland. Graduated from an international (and that's meant in every word) hospitality college. Interesting life, to be sure. But not the only one.