Asia

[close] "He had learned the art of storytelling in the Orient, where storytellers are highly regarded. Indeed, they are magicians and play with the souls of their listeners as a child plays with his ball." Herman Hesse Travel around the world from your living rooms by experiencing books, music, movies, and food from exotic locales and chatting about it. Explore at your own pace.

[close] Book Club on Asia, Philosophy, Entrepreneurship, Classics, Money,

[close] This is a place dedicated to understand the complex postcolonial life through case studies. Given the topics related to postcolonial life are always sensational and controversial (like the identity wars), this group is built upon the belief that the contexts are always more complicated than the individual perspectives as for the insiders a topic as crucial as identity would be the elephant in the room. The suggestion for making use of this space is to observe how you agree and/or disagree with the posts and think about the nature of these points of difference. Personal and faithful perspectives (even if they conflict with each other on political standpoints) will all be respected.

[close] This group will be discussing how Parag Khanna's book "The Future is Asian" fits in the AP Human Geography curriculum. This group consists of mostly of high school AP Human Geography teachers. Check out the Twitter feed on the group info or follow the hashtag #APHGFutureIsAsian