Tag: culture
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Smartphones versus… “dumb”phones?
This summer I spent several weeks in Mexico City teaching a class for an immersion program for psychology and MFT students. I packed light and only brought two gadgets with me – my laptop and iPhone 5s. My iPhone was tucked safely away in an inexpensive wallet case where I also carried a key card…
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Global identity: Living in the old and the new
“Interested in everything, committed to nothing.” – Gregory David Roberts from his novel Shantaram. This statement really speaks to me when I contemplate how personal identity is shifting in the world given globalization. The terms global identity and the global nomad have entered our vocabulary as a result of the shrinking of our planet into…
DR. JENNIFER YOUNG 