Adventures in Cultural Competence

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Sadly, Asian-American history and heritage is rarely taught in U.S. public schools. So for those of you who’ve missed such curriculum, here’s a list of 10 factoids you may not have known about the history of Asian-Americans in this country:

1). The first Asians…

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That between India and Pakistan, there are about a dozen + languages spoken? Some are mutually intelligible (Urdu/Hindi), almost all are derived from the same linguistic subsets (I can’t understand Punjabi but I can make out some of the words), but each is spoken by different cultures and…

uzairm:

*This post is an exercise in Spreading Goodness In Place of Hatred

Back when I was in Grade 3, my parents decided that the British school I was in was too lax. They had also learned over the previous two years that the local Pakistani schools were just too disorganized to dole out a good…

[Read it, it’s wonderful.]

inascaldingjoy:

stfuconservatives:

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pepperbean:

Refreshing to see some open-mindedness in this world. 

Well done, Ikea.

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Does it have an impossible to pronounce Swedish name?