Tag Archives: refugees

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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apollo11 Refugee children left behind as eagle lands on the moon

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Ingrid Piller

Yesterday, the New York Times carried a heart-breaking story about an exceptional school principal forced from her position under No-Child-Left-Behind legislation in order for the school district to obtain federal funding. It’s an instructive tale about the standardized-assessment tail wagging … Continue reading →

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When your English is too good

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ingrid Piller

Some people just can’t win it seems. Second language speakers are in that category. I can’t even begin to count how many people who have read a fraction of the English literature I have read and who have never written … Continue reading →

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