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Samoan Language Week USA Kicks Off Today

Tue, 05/31/2011 - 21:11

Samoan-American Community Celebrates Worldwide Language Preservation Effort

 

“O fanau a tagata e fafaga i upu, a o fanau a manu e fafaga i fugalaau”

The young of birds are fed with the blossoms of trees, whereas the young of humans are fed with words.

 

LOS ANGELES — Samoan communities around the world are celebrating Samoan Language Week, June 1-7, 2011. This year, for the first time, the United States is joining in the celebration with the launch of the iSpeakSamoan campaign.


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Jay Chen's Daily Show interview with Aasif Mandvi regarding Cedarlane's Chinese language and culture class

Fri, 06/11/2010 - 22:45

Our Chinese language and culture class recently came under fire from Tea Party activists because some of the books we may use come from China.  The issue has been covered by the LA Times, AP and Fox News.  More recently, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired a segment on the controversy, and interviewed me for it as well.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-7-2010/socialism-studies

 


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First Amendment Foibles: Can the Dallas PD read English?

Sat, 10/24/2009 - 08:32

After Ernestina Mondragon, a lovely Spanish speaking abuela stopped by rookie Officer Gary Bromley after taking a U turn, went to court to fight a citation issued for not speaking English, it was found that Dallas’ finest have issued 38 citations for the same non-existent law in the last three years.


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Asian American News

Sun, 10/04/2009 - 19:20

Local Indians, Pakistanis to participate in joint celebration in Milpitas

Survey Shows Recession's Impact on Minority Associates


Anglicized Names in China?

Mon, 04/27/2009 - 23:34

This is perhaps of more sociological/cultural interest than political, but my cousin, a writer in Shanghai, recently wrote an interesting article in Slate inspired by the Betty Brown incident on the growing use of Anglicized names in China among the Chinese.  I knew it was a popular practice, but I didn't realize it had become routine among Ch