http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2007/08/packing-list-and-colonial-attitudes/ Sun, 13 Jun 2010 10:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2007/08/packing-list-and-colonial-attitudes/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Jennifer Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:18:49 +0000 http://canadianbaconbarbie.com/2007/08/packing-list-and-colonial-attitudes/#comment-39 Love the new look to the old blog--what a great birthday gift! Also, it's so interesting the issue of gifts. I suppose I can see how it can be taken as a "colonial" mentality, and I suppose your own identity as a North American woman, with Candian Citizenship and a US job only heightens this sense of Western paternalism, but truthfully, it's just polite to bring a gift. And it reminds me of how difficult cross-cultural communication (or miscommunication) can be--how our best intentions can be misconstrued by others, and if actual language is a factor, well that seems to just double the trouble, so to speak. Anwyay, if you can fit some extra razors and tampons in your suitcase I bet they would make good bargaing chips and poential good will gifts. Love the new look to the old blog–what a great birthday gift! Also, it’s so interesting the issue of gifts. I suppose I can see how it can be taken as a “colonial” mentality, and I suppose your own identity as a North American woman, with Candian Citizenship and a US job only heightens this sense of Western paternalism, but truthfully, it’s just polite to bring a gift. And it reminds me of how difficult cross-cultural communication (or miscommunication) can be–how our best intentions can be misconstrued by others, and if actual language is a factor, well that seems to just double the trouble, so to speak. Anwyay, if you can fit some extra razors and tampons in your suitcase I bet they would make good bargaing chips and poential good will gifts.

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