Deep Listening: Engaging with Respect

Nga Than
7 min readJun 16, 2020
Picture: Markconner.typepad.com

When I first started college in the United States, I struggled. I struggled with English because as a non-native speaker, the first year was very difficult. Every student had to take English 101, first year seminar, major, and minor required classes. Even before school started, the incoming freshmen were asked to read a non-fiction book, and created original and innovative responses to it. I was overwhelmed. Nobody had ever…

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Nga Than

Doctoral candidate in sociology @GC_CUNY, passionate about computational social science, digital sociology, tech & developing countries