One of my students, Courtney from Bennington College in VT, is doing a semester-long ethnographic and anthropological study of the American expatriate community in Beijing. It’s a part of her senior thesis, and she has been combing the city interviewing Beijing-based American expats. But we need a few more…
If anybody is interested in helping out an aspiring academic and has the time for a phone, email, or face-to-face interview in the next few weeks, please get in touch with me (jgjenne (at) gmail.com).
Thanks and God bless hot dogs, baseball, and the US of A.
> God bless hot dogs, baseball, and the US of A.
And God bless jingoism too!
Mitch,
I’m guessing (hoping) that you already know this…but I was joking. I say “hoping,” because I’ve got a few wingnuts who read this blog with less than perfect English comprehension and it’s possible they might think I was actually being serious…
Hey, if I was a son of God’s Own Country[tm], I’d crow about it too!
And Go Yankees!
Don’t forget burritos and General Tso’s chicken.
This is Beijing expats only? I am in Hangzhou these days.
Proof that no joke goes unpunished…
Sam…the Yankees suck.
(Mitch, A.K.A. “Mr. Literal”: The Yankees are a baseball team and my telling Sam that the “Yankee’s suck” is an example of good-humored joshing by fans of rival teams. It is not meant to be an endoresement of verbal abuse, nor am I making a statement about the personal habits of Yankees players or staff.)