Tag Archives: Africa

food_processors Racism without racists

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon from Vietnam, an MBA graduate from Pakistan, an architect from … Continue reading →

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The burning children of globalization

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Ingrid Piller

I’ve been wondering what would be an appropriate Christmas post for the Language on the Move blog. Seeing that I’m deeply skeptical about all those claims about the wonderful advantages of bilingualism, a good news story à la “bilingualism helps … Continue reading →

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