Asia-literacy and Global Competence

By Alicia Su Lozeron

ASIA-LITERACY AND GLOBAL COM-PETENCE is a collection of Alicia Su Lozeron’s vignettes and articles about Asia and the world. In bringing the Asian segment onto the western stage, the author emphasizes the invaluable contributions of the Asian sector to the global village. An irresistible shift of global power renders awareness about global competence ever more important. She aims to raise that awareness and connects the West to the East by researching and analyzing facts as well as describing experiences of cross-cultural nature. Her content is compelling, and her tales, beautifully narrated.
Through her writing as well as her translation and communication management company, Asia-America Connection Society, AACS 亚美合作协会, Alicia Su Lozeron has promoted Asia-literacy and urged global competence. Her diligence in providing quality content related to Asia and the globe has proven to be rewarding, both to her own personal fulfillment, and to the global village’s needs. For herself, the work is her cause and calling. She gains a great deal of gratification through hard work and creation. For the world, her work is beneficial and educational in the ways it introduces peoples and cultures of various heritages and embraces world citizens of the global village, with their fair share of rights to being, to life, and to our magnificent Earth.
Alicia Su Lozeron’s advocacy for mutual understanding and collaboration among cultures is vital for your company or personal accomplishments, on a business, cultural, educational, or entertainment dimension. Below is what readers and audiences have discerned of Alicia Su Lozeron’s work:
• helps me overcome difficulties or fears and find beauty in positive human interactions;
• helps me appreciate people of various backgrounds, and expand knowledge about the world;
• helps me understand interracial or blended family relations;
• helps me savor intricate feelings and emotions about important subjects in life;
• helps me gain enjoyment through poetic narrations;
• helps me realize a new perspective of hope, courage, and respect for others;
• helps me raise awareness about cultural competence;
• helps me nurture a well-rounded global outlook;
• motivates me to promote an open/just community;
• urges me to develop the ability to see the big picture using multiple frames of references;
• helps me strengthen the ability to express genuine love;
• helps me decrease conflict by learning to trust and to resolve disagreements....

“Think Global Live Noble” -- together we can build a better world!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alicia Su Lozeron
• Release date: Jun 25, 2017
• ISBN: 9780998194165

Alicia Su Lozeron

Asia-Literacy and Global Competence Mentor Founder of AACS | Author Licensed Secondary-School English Language Arts and Chinese Mandarin Teacher Alicia Su Lozeron is the author of numerous news/magazine articles and short stories. She holds a Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in the City of New York, and is licensed as a secondary-school English Language Arts/Chinese Mandarin teacher in Las Vegas, NV. Through her writing career as well as the communication management company she founded, Asia-America Connection Society, she aims to raises awareness about global competence, and to connect the West to the significant economic and cultural contributions the Asian segment offers. Asia-literacy and Global Competence, a collection of her articles and vignettes, highlights her musings of cultural interactions and layouts for her many endeavors (see both English and Chinese versions at https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/136-5571741-1176369?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=asia-literacy+and+global+competence). Her debut novel, The Un-death of Me, depicts a world traveler and immigrant Asian American woman’s life in a fresh light. It is a fictional world full of contemporary and global resonance; it is about many subjects: alienation, individuality, self-doubt, self-discovery, complexities of love and marriage, quests of fulfillment and happiness, (in)justice, cultural diversity, discrimination, and mankind as a whole. Its subtle yet intense emotions detailed in the many characters and locales, render a visionary sense of humanity, gratifying and unforgettable in their own rights (see https://www.amazon.com/Un-death-Me-Asian-American-Woman/dp/0998194123/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8). Asia-America Connection Society E-mail [e-mail]; [e-mail] “Think Global Live Noble” -- together we can build a better world! Detailed Information: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicia-su-lozeron http://www.aliciasulozeron.com http://amazon.com/author/aliciasulozeron http://www.aacs.website/en/services/authors-and-books https://www.facebook.com/aliciasulozeron https://www.facebook.com/people/Alicia-Su-Lozeron/100013834032346 https://plus.google.com/108984032785909720247 http://www.aacs.website https://www.facebook.com/aacs.website https://plus.google.com/115668373923821256231/posts?hl=en https://twitter.com/AliciaSuLozeron

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ASIA-LITERACY AND GLOBAL COM-PETENCE is a collection of Alicia Su Lozeron’s vignettes and articles about Asia and the world. In bringing the Asian segment onto the western stage, the author emphasizes the invaluable contributions of the Asian sector to the global village.  An irresistible shift of global power renders awareness about global competence ever more important.  She aims to raise that awareness and connects the West to the East by researching and analyzing facts as well as describing experiences of cross-cultural nature.  Her content is compelling, and her tales, beautifully narrated.

Through her writing as well as her translation and communication management company, Asia-America Connection Society, AACS 亚美合作协会, Alicia Su Lozeron has promoted Asia-literacy and urged global competence.  Her diligence in providing quality content related to Asia and the globe has proven to be rewarding, both to her own personal fulfillment, and to the global village’s needs.  For herself, the work is her cause and calling.  She gains a great deal of gratification through hard work and creation.  For the world, her work is beneficial and educational in the ways it introduces peoples and cultures of various heritages and embraces world citizens of the global village, with their fair share of rights to being, to life, and to our magnificent Earth.

Alicia Su Lozeron’s advocacy for mutual understanding and collaboration among cultures is vital for your company or personal accomplishments, on a business, cultural, educational, or entertainment dimension.  Below is what readers and audiences have discerned of Alicia Su Lozeron’s work:

• helps me overcome difficulties or fears and find beauty in positive human interactions;

• helps me appreciate people of various backgrounds, and expand knowledge about the world;

• helps me understand interracial or blended family relations;

• helps me savor intricate feelings and emotions about important subjects in life;

• helps me gain enjoyment through poetic narrations;

• helps me realize a new perspective of hope, courage, and respect for others;

• helps me raise awareness about cultural competence;

• helps me nurture a well-rounded global outlook;

• motivates me to promote an open/just community;

• urges me to develop the ability to see the big picture using multiple frames of references;

• helps me strengthen the ability to express genuine love;

• helps me decrease conflict by learning to trust and to resolve disagreements....

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Think Global Live Noble—together we can build a better world!

Copyright © 2017 Alicia Su Lozeron

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-9981941-6-5

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Works by Alicia Su Lozeron—

The Un-death of Me: Life of an Asian American Woman

(2016, A Cross-genre Fictional Memoir)

Asia-literacy and Global Competence: Collections and Recollections

(2017, English and Chinese Versions)

Upcoming—

A Man with Immense Love

The Un-death of Me: Life of an Asian American Woman

(Chinese Version; Japanese and Spanish Versions by Teams of Translators)

I dedicate this book to all the professionals, friends, colleagues, world citizens and travelers I have come across while exploring the world and acquiring knowledge of it.  I also thank Robert Alan Lozeron, my dear husband, my love, my life-partner, and my editor who provides me with invaluable suggestions.  Those who propel me to reflect on my inner self and the world appear in many facets and aspects of the articles or vignettes collected in this book. They formulate the pillars of the world as I construct and understand. 

The factual or fictional world’s intricacy lies in their existences. 

With them, this book comes to life.

New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Sydney

Asia-America Connection Society

Asia-literacy and Global Competence

Collections and Recollections

Alicia Su Lozeron

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Weakness creates ignorance, racism, xenophobia, and cruelty. The more self-assured you are, the more open you are to new ideas and people of different origins.

Cultural incompetence is like a shadow personality; it creeps up on you when you least expect or even realize it. When you presume and judge, you cloud your vision by having wrongful perceptions about people.

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—Alicia Su Lozeron

1. From Old Skin to Fairytales

The character of Avery Mingli Liang in my debut book called The Un-death of Me, embodies a version of me who wanted to get away from the confined, pressure-ridden society of the tiny Asian island of Taiwan.  Effacing the traditionally subservient female role of a daughter, pupil, or sister, I took off soaring freely into the wild wide world, unto New York City’s sophisticated living as well as Las Vegas’s brutal reality checks. Twenty odd years later, I am embracing an adjusted outlook that sustains healthier interactions with my inner self, with my heritage, with others, and with the world as a whole.  The process was convoluted and only became evident after many a life lesson.  Here I am, set to rethink how my roots and experiences have nurtured, and propelled me to teach global competence.  Like Avery’s character, I owe it to my heritage to see the world through healthier lenses:

How was it right to slither free of an old skin and walk away to wear only a healthy membrane of a hide?  Avery came back to a

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A Vicious Typhoon

All Too Strange and Familiar

vicious typhoon that reminded her of her old skin all too strange and familiar at the same time.  She came, she experienced, she took away, and she left behind.  Her survival from the anguish, torment and regret must have been unconditionally granted.  She was unscathed yet again, feeling completely home with