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May 9, 2006
The buzz on global perspectives
I've been so caught up in launching GUANXI: THE CHINA LETTER that I haven't been blogging as I'd like, but I have been following the great discussion about how people in different parts of the world see us (and U.S.). And I've been hearing from people with related projects that so wonderfully mesh with our efforts to explore global perspectives on the United States. The first of them is WatchingAmerica.com, a brilliant and innovative gathering of news from around the world about how the world sees us.
Robin Koerner, a British guy now based in New York, is one of the founders. We had a chat on Sunday that devolved (or evolved) to a discussion of what's good about being an expat. I told him how a friend said I'd moved back to the States (in 1991) because after a decade or more away I now felt really foreign here in America. He thinks there's a lot of freedom in being an expat, and that's true, too.
And Robin told me about PBS's amazing new Borders: American ID site, which references this site as an important resource on the American identity at How They See Us. We'll be getting involved in that, too, and looking for ways to collaborate. LoveUsHateUS readers and contributors will find it another fascinating place to explore.
Posted by Karen Christensen at May 9, 2006 5:28 PM