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AIT:Locally Connecting the Dots  Selected quotes




                 “People from Afghanistan are the tallest people in the   Indonesians are the friendliest people ever.
                 campus with most fair skin, unique cultural dance and   European people gets to travel so much! Jealous!
                 beautiful traditional dresses.”                 (South-East Asian Views)
                 “They  use  two  currencies  in  Cambodia.  Khmer  Riel   “Bhutanese people speak Zhongkha language and most
                 and US dollars. You pay dollars and you get change in   of them can also speak Hindi language of India. Indian
                 Khmer Riels. And vice versa. You pay the bill in US Dollar   currency Rupees is also accepted in Bhutan. “Bhutan is a
                 but you’ll get Khmer Riels as change!!! Mind boggling   carbon negative country. Their land is for 72% covered by
                 for someone new.”                               forest that captures more carbon than they emit.”
                 “Nepali people can look different, some look like    “They are famous for their hydropower and investments
                 Indians, some look like Chinese while the others look   in clean energy. They also sell clean energy to India, and
                 like a mix of Indian and Chinese people.”       soon to Bangladesh.”
                 “Nepali people are the most beautiful people on the
                 campus!”
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                 “Head Shake” language (of  India) is            official opinion of the editorial team.
                 difficult to grasp. Shake their head, it not
                 always means  “yes” or  “no”... Anyway,
                 I can’t imitate their shaking head
                 method.”
                 “The best tea in the world comes
                 from Sri Lanka. I love to have many
                 Srilankan friends, since they always
                 provide  me  continuous  supply  of
                 Ceylon tea.”
                 “Myanmar. The Golden Land.”
                 "People of  Myanmar have no hair
                 cut days. They don't cut their hair on
                 Monday, Friday and on their birthday"


                 “Vietnamese language has 7 tones,
                 the highest I know so far. In Chinese,
                 there are 4 tones. In Thai, there are 5
                 tones.”
                 “The people from  China are
                 mathematical genious!”
                 “The  Japanese here are always
                 happy and smiling even if they dont
                 know me.”
                 “Japanese  have  a  very  unique
                 way of laughing.”
                 Sudan. Oh! These are really great,
                 cool, sympathetic, friendly people,
                 I like them.
                 I think everyone from  Africa can
                 dance amazingly and have the same
                 joyous smile no matter which part of
                 Africa they come from.
                 “Philippines  have  very  high  energy  prices
                 compared with other countries in the region.
                 They also have a lot of geothermal energy.”
                 “In Philippine, they believe that giants smoke cigars in
                 the in canopy of trees. They are called kapre.”
                 Storms, Climate Change (Bangladesh)


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