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[william wallace]

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[tyrthwr]

Mr. Wallace

I will read Jihad vs McWorld if I can get a hold of it.

Speaking of "McWorld", or perhaps "Mac World" [but in a different sense ], I take it that your love of Cape Breton may possibly allude to your being native to there? M�bu / Mabou? Br�igh na h-Aibhne / Southwest Margaree? Badaig / Baddeck?

Shenzhen may provide a good alternative to BJ. Clean water, clean air, no sandstorms...

The money's better too. I make 12,600 after tax, holidays paid, health insurance. It's nothing compared to what "real" expats make, but it's low stress. I have looked into selling electronics on eBay.

I pay 1,500 RMB for a new studio sort of near the metro.

is mise,

Tyrthwr

[tyrthwr]

William Wallace

Actually, I forgot to mention:

I would like to get a job in Cape Breton. One of the only places in Canada - if not THE ONLY place in Canada I would like to live and work. Never been to Newf, so I can't say anything about it.

But Cape Breton is depressing in some ways. The older Gaelic speakers are dying now, and the young ones don't give two shits about their own language. They are happy to confine it to ceilidhs, CDs, concerts... anywhere symbolic. Sorry - I feel a bit depressed about it.

Living in China for me is a sellout.

I have sold myself out, but can rectify this. But living in poverty and misery in Canada doesn't appeal to me either. So I'm sort of stuck.

I don't want to spread the English language and I don't particularly want to help the Chinese learn it either. But living in Canada basically means:

- no women [in Montreal and Toronto, anyway]
- no money
- renting some overpriced little basement apartment somewhere
- being under-employed or even unemployed

No thanks!

But I'm in Shenzhen, which is cool, but full of money-grabbing Chinese intent on survival [fair enough], but it's not the best environment socially.

Have thought about Kazakhstan and Urumqi.

T

[william wallace]

nothing to say

[tyrthwr]

WW

Interesting story indeed.

Did u ever get to Sleat in Skye or Galway or Conamara?

Interesting, and fair enough, that you said that you "speak" Gaelic [rather than write], as this is really what counts. It's an oral culture, so it doesn't matter too much what's on paper.

I spent half a year in Skye and two years in Galway [McGhaillimh ]. I speak Irish [Conamara and Tir Chonaill dialects].

I'm at almost native level in Welsh [lived there for 7 years] and speak Breton fluently [lived there for 3 years].

I'm the guy that wrote The Pan-Celtic Phrasebook.

ISBN: 0 86243 441 6

and just co-authored and designed an online Welsh course for a university in the USA. It was just approved for accreditation yesterday. It'a a university-accredited course.

http://madog.rio.edu/lingo/

Cape Breton and most of Canada hold no present for me and possibly no future either. I have attempted to find work in Cape Breton, but unemployment is 20-45%.

In a nutshell, it's basically not going to happen.

For now - China. I may create another online course while here, since working in China provides me with enough free time to do this.

I come from McWorld [Toronto], where I left because I refused the McExistence there and didn't want to have as the primary purpose of my existence the duty of paying someone else's mortgage.

Shenzhen is McChina, but it's ok for now. I need money to survive.

I stopped living in Toronto about 18 years ago - ummmm, and haven't bothered mcliving there again. I've been to 53 or so countries, and speak a whole shitload of languages now.

You last posting made sense to me, and I've never seen many people leave messages like that. It was cool to read.

I am interested in this area you mentioned where the land isn't expensive and where it's not teeming with McPeople.

Well, I'm off to an Indian buffet restaurant now.

slan go foill,

[I like this "slan tamall" expression. Tamall - a timespan, a while.]

p.s.

read this interesting story:

Russian Story

How I became a Fly
Kak ya Stal Mukhoi

http://www.williamknox.net/fly001.htm

It's about selling out your "soul" as it were.

If you read Gaelic or Irish at all, my CV is here:

http://www.williamknox.net/other.htm

T

[cj750]

Jihad vs. McWorld

http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/vsteffel/web597/Barber_jihad.pdf#search=%22Jihad%20Vs%20McWorld%22

[tyrthwr]

thx