Lena Muldoon and Emily Pittman, two blonde, twenty-something, United States expatriates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, led a small but stalwart group of protesters. They marched through the late June...
My mother never forced me to speak Cantonese. Despite spending the bulk of my childhood in Seattle and then Texas, my mother feared for my English. While she continued to speak to me in Cantonese...
For many westerners living in Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula has long been referred to as the “Dark Side”. Across the harbor from more “expat friendly” neighborhoods on Hong Kong Island —...
I met an expat lady at GUM, Moscow's fanciest department store, the other day, and wound up horrifying her. She had asked me for directions in Russian, and I had noticed her accent, and spoke to her...