Dong Huong, Rue Louis Bonnet, XI arr.If anything, this project has turned me into a racial profiler. I've become overly aware of all the Asian people in Paris, first filtering the Asian tourists out from the French Asians, and then the the Chinese...
Supermarché, Rue au Maire, IIIe arr.Rather than listen to their mother and greet the butcher properly, the two litte kids chanted with endless excitement, "Bon-sieur, Bon-sieur," instead of "Bonjour, Monsieur." However, their pleading faces...
As a US citizen, growing up in California, I never really thought about the fact that my parents came from other countries. My mom, though Chinese, resided in Vietnam and Hong Kong before moving to CA at 14 with 11 of her family members. My dad on...
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Before the strange men
burst into the house where she was sleeping alone, before they scoured
the house for her sister and her husband – political enemies they “most...
Having finished running interventions during the
first school term (Jan-March), our site is facing a new set of challenges for
Term 2. Our coaches typically implement...
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