Copan Mayan Ruins In Central America I've always said that whenever I vacation, I refuse to be a resort 'beach whale'. That is, I refuse to spend a week at a typical beach resort and just lie on the beach. I will get totally bored. For my vacation t ...
Is El Salvador A Safe Country To Travel To?
El Salvador Safe To Travel Whenever I travel to foreign countries, usually for cultural experiences and scuba diving, I like to visit multiple countries in any single vacation trip. I see where my flights connect and instead of choosing the shortest l ...
Self Defence Tie In With Charitable Causes
The Charitable Causes I Believe In Now that I have more free time due to my retirement from corporate life and success as a real estate investor, I will have more opportunities to do my part in the charitable causes I believe in. For me, there are thr ...
Did I Have To Wait So Long To Come Out Of The Closet?
Is Hard Rock Still Too Controversial? I was asked by a reader who read my article on coming out of the closet (the hard rock music closet that is) if being a hard rock fan is still controversial these days. It was felt that perhaps I r ...
More Human Diversity In The Workplace
More From Diversity In The Workplace Event Here is more from the Asian Heritage Month event I posted on recently. Last time, I featured some Chinese cultural dancers and indeed, the representation from this Asian group was quite high at this bank ev ...
Workplace Diversity Event For Asian Heritage Month
Workplace Diversity In Corporate Canada I was a performer at a major Canadian bank's workplace diversity event yesterday as part of Asian Heritage Month. Apparently, this bank has an internal Asian employee network and this was one of the events they ...
Gender Diversity Example Smashes Stereotype
Gender Diversity Example Although I usually do not want to generalize, but I can't help but notice that in many cultures, girls are not encouraged to be very active in sports. As a result, when many of these girls become women, they do not lea ...
Groups Recognize Importance Of Managing Diversity In The Workplace
photo credit: PRSA National Managing Diversity In The Workplace After a relatively quiet summer, I've headed into a string of paid speaking engagements for the fall with types of organizations ranging from colleges to non-profits groups with some fur ...
Drums From Africa Another Motivational Music Video
African Drums Motivational Music I usually attend a big multicultural festival in Mississauga, Ontario each year called Carassauga as part of my ongoing human diversity exposure. I was lucky enough to catch an all female African drums music group at th ...
Interpersonal Skills Tip From Diversity Training
photo credit: caffeina Interpersonal Skills Tip With Other Cultures Since I'm in the midst of doing some diversity training presentations at colleges and non-profit organizations, I might as well outline one of the tips I present. This is a very use ...