Economic Hit Man
Candidate character description:
Multilingual, sensitive to other cultures, can mix with local populations in difficult areas around the world, can get used to harsh living conditions, can gain trust of people if different countries, smart, and resourceful.
Education: Economics, international affairs.
Job: Be an economic hit man. Lie for the US government. Manipulate international [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Not an economic hit-woman or spy: I am in between two worlds, in the middle
Accent comeback: I am back in Argentina (in my mind)
In January 2000, I returned from Argentina on crutches and with a cast on my left leg, with no desire to retain my recently acquired Argentine accent in Spanish. After spending a year in the country, I wanted no traces of the Argentine “sh” sound for the double “ll” and “y” letters in Spanish. (Most [...]