About Greg Jorgensen

Greg hails from a wee town in mid-western Canada with a name that's hard to pronounce and even harder to remember. After spending a few years in film school and learning how to lift heavy equipment for abusive producers, his path took a rather circuitous course, eventually ending in Bangkok in 2001 where he currently lives, works and sleeps. Since landing in Thailand, he has held jobs as varied as corporate trainer, stand-up comedian, tour guide, proofreader and actor (usually playing a bad guy or a bodyguard that gets killed). These days he's happy spending much of his time as a writer and fondly thinking about how many kilometers lie between him and a Canadian winter. His blog can be found at www.GregToDiffer.com.
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Greg Jorgensen has written 2 articles so far, you can find them below.

Culture & History

The Colors of Social Division

You might have read about the ongoing protests in Bangkok, Thailand.  When you have 30,000 people in red shirts dug in to one of the busiest tourist/shopping/business hubs in one of Asia’s biggest and busiest cities, it generally makes a few front pages. If you haven’t, I will sum it up very quickly. Thousands of [...]

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Culture & History

Prostitution in Asia: It’s Complicated

It’s always interesting to see how many facets of society people expect to remain the same around the world, which include details from the mundane and forgettable to serious and socially relevant. One of these places is Thailand, where some things have a completely different value set than we’re used to, many of which take [...]

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