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Microsoft-Yahoo Could Skip Culture Clash
2008-02-04 18:51:00 yahoo’s walls are awash in bright purples and yellows, while microsoft’s campus is coated in drab neutrals. yahoo’s co-founder holds the cutesy title of “chief yahoo,” while Bill Gates was “chief software architect.” (more…)
By: Latest News
Microsoft-Yahoo Could Skip Culture Clash
2008-02-04 06:50:00 SEATTLE (AP) – Yahoo’s walls are awash in bright purples and yellows, while Microsoft’s campus is coated in drab neutrals. Yahoo’s co-founder holds the cutesy title of “chief Yahoo,” while Bill Gates was “chief software architect.” Yahoo epitomizes California cool; Microsoft is still trying to get over its competition-crushing past. But the culture clash may not ...
Culture Clash? I Suspect Most Of Us Are Somewhere Between These Two Couples
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By: Los Cuatro Ojos
Culture clash: India and the west.
2008-01-25 21:58:00 After reading Dr. Shyam's threads about opportunity in India, and after being surprised the other day when in the Cricket thread I was chastised by vishmaster for what he/she considered a sarcastic comment, I got to thinking about this. One of the things I have found addictive about CR4 is th
You Have Been Randomly Selected!
2007-11-03 20:42:00 I was walking through airport security, making my way towards the land of the Nile, excited and a tad anxious. Nearing the security x-ray machines, ready to put my bag in, I noticed a grinning woman wearing airport uniform approach me. “Good-morning Madam!” she began, giving me no time to reply. “You have been randomly ...
By: Unique Muslimah
I?m Not Pregnant, I Swear!
2007-10-21 17:29:00 It was a few months ago where I was waiting in the hospital for my turn when a nurse pushed my bed inside a dark x-ray room and disappeared. She emerged a few minutes later with a form in her hand. From the boredom of waiting I was observing the large room with quite a scary ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Where Do I Belong?
2007-10-19 23:44:00 I almost always manage to attract a few gasps and stares when I admit how much I miss and love Egypt, and how I would like to live there one day. Why on Earth, I’m always asked, would I want to leave the civilised West, the Utopian Land everyone wishes to immigrate to, and settle in ...
By: Unique Muslimah
I Owe It To You, Great-Grandfather
2007-10-02 23:05:00 The person I’ve become clicked when I visited an aunt a few weeks ago. I remember noticing a large black and white photo of a man smiling, his eyes filled with wisdom and peace. ‘Who is that?’ I interrupted my aunt as she placed two glasses of soda on the round, mahogany table. ‘That?’ she looked ...
By: Unique Muslimah
I Owe It To You, Great-Grandfather
2007-10-01 23:05:00 The person I’ve become clicked when I visited an aunt a few weeks ago. I remember noticing a large black and white photo of a man smiling, his eyes filled with wisdom and peace. ‘Who is that?’ I interrupted my aunt as she placed two glasses of soda on the round, mahogany table. ‘That?’ she looked ...
By: Unique Muslimah
The Handbag Effect
2007-09-20 18:54:00 I shop feverishly for a handbag I can show off to the world; and my world consists of my friends, family and those who add me on facebook. My bag simply has to match my specifications; it must look good on my arm. Nothing else is to be taken into account, except that the bag’s colour ...
By: Unique Muslimah
The Couple Culture II
2007-09-19 04:26:00 The Couple Culture in Egypt, a phrase I dubbed and wrote about a few months back, is still evident during Ramadan. Although I’m not totally ignorant to the fact that not everyone follows the Ramadan guidelines 100%, it somehow always takes me by surprise when I find someone I know blatantly sinning in front of my face. And encouraging ...
By: Unique Muslimah
I?m Not Afraid of God. I?m Afraid of Your Camera!
2007-08-24 00:35:00 Actions of hypocrisy led me to a night filled with a pair of swollen eyes and endless tears. I have returned safely from such a night and though I am composed to write the lessons I went through this evening, the memory stabs my heart a little. Because there is nothing I hate more than hypocrisy.
By: Unique Muslimah
My Future Husband
2007-08-19 10:58:00 They think the perfect match would be someone who was born and raised in Egypt, went to Egyptian schools and has never learnt English. These types of men are heavily conditioned by culture. The ones I’ve met are quite patriarchal and would be challenging husbands. The ones who work in foreign companies or went to ...
By: Unique Muslimah
What About What I Want?
2007-08-04 17:25:00 I am currently going through one of the most painful migranes I have ever encountered in my life. Today I was given another marriage dose from my grandmother in the morning. Now they are telling me that they must pick my husband for me, they will organise my wedding and it must be here in Egypt. What ...
By: Unique Muslimah
Culture clash in the stalls
2007-07-10 01:47:00 News Item: China opens worlds largest public restroom Chongqing, China, has one for the books, the Guiness Book of Records, that is. Spread out over 30,000 square feet, rising four stories above the street, and encompassing 1,000 toilet stalls, is the biggest, gaudiest, and we think creepiest bathroom on the planet. China has a lot of people, no doubt about that. With well over 1 billion people in country, it’s not too far fetched to think that a thousand folks, all in the same place, might all have to ‘go’ at once. The new multi-flush facility, however, is located in a tourist area the Chinese call Foreigners Street, so it apparently was designed with foreigners in mind, and this is what bothers us, juuuust a little. Do the Chinese really think we would be drawn to the idea of urinating in… well… the picture below says it all. Then click the link that leads to CNN, and take a gander at where you’re supposed to wash up when you’re ...
Ranieri roused by culture clash
2007-04-04 11:20:00 Claudio Ranieri cannot wait to see the “individual skills” of Chelsea FC come up against Valencia CF’s “superior team play” as his two former clubs meet.
By: Soccer News
Ranieri roused by culture clash
2007-04-03 10:50:00 Claudio Ranieri cannot wait to see the “individual skills” of Chelsea FC come up against Valencia CF’s “superior team play” as his old clubs meet.
By: Soccer News
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