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German-English vs. Spanish-English German-English vs. Spanish-English

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Christof Demont-Heinrich

I have frequently wondered how my experiences speaking German in public with my two daughters, 7, and 5, whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the United States, would be different if we were raising them … Continue reading →

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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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By Addo Tetteh Voices of African-Australian Youth

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Vera Williams Tetteh

Racism is an inevitable part of growing up black in Australia. As a mother of two African-Australian boys, one of the hardest things is that I can only do so much to protect my children from being the targets of … Continue reading →

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