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Jenni Young

The Name Game: The Anglicizing of Asian Students - 1 views

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    Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?
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    Why are students, especially those from China, being told to Anglicize their names? How do the benefits outweigh the issues of culture shock, loss of identity and disconnection from their own culture?
Jenni Young

The French protect their language like the British protect their currency - 0 views

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    A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identity
Jenni Young

Why I'm Not Changing My Last Name for Marriage | Reflective Bride - 0 views

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    To me, as it would be for many other people, my name is my identity. If someone asks you "who are you?" the answer that you give is your first and last name. For me, my name is who I am.... (blog)
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    To me, as it would be for many other people, my name is my identity. If someone asks you "who are you?" the answer that you give is your first and last name. For me, my name is who I am.... (blog)
Jenni Young

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? - 0 views

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    Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
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    Results of a study which took identical resumes and put black sounding names at the top of one set of resumes and white sounding names at the top of the second set.
Jenni Young

My Asian Americana - 1 views

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    Exiles and ex-pats unite as a community to present images of an Americana they left behind. One half live outside the US by choice while the other half has been forcibly returned. All are Americans. Each raised with the memories, mannerisms, and a distinct cultural identity of growing up Asian in America.
Jenni Young

Who Gets To Be A Superhero? Race And Identity In Comics - 0 views

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    Artist Orion Martin recently posted several images reimagining X-Men characters as people of color. This touched off a conversation about race in comic book worlds, and how these comic book depictions relate to real life (from NPR's Code Switch)
Jenni Young

Your Birth Name Is Your Identity? Says Who? - 1 views

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    Response to Guardian article "Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs" by Jill Filipovic
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Personal names and identity in Pakistan - 2 views

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    Names are so important that a human being can lose his or her life only because of the wrong name in the wrong place.
Jenni Young

Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs | Jill Filipovic | C... - 1 views

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    Jill Filipovic: Your name is your identity. The reasons women give for changing their names after marrying don't make much sense (Opinion)
Jenni Young

Social Media Demographics: The Surprising Identity Of Each Major Social Network Read m... - 0 views

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    Each social media platform has cultivated a unique identity thanks to the demographics of the people who participate in the network.
Jenni Young

Third Culture Kids - 0 views

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    video about third-culture identity
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BBC Languages - Language and Identity - 2 views

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    Page has many links to other topics related to Global English, including Endangered Languages, adopting words from other languages, etc.
Jenni Young

Undercover job hunters reveal huge race bias in Britain's workplaces - 0 views

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    Civil servants created false identities to send CVs to hundreds of employers in sting to uncover discrimination
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George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity | Education | th... - 0 views

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    Hungarian-born poet George Szirtes writes in both English and his native tongue. He contemplates bilingualism and belonging
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Stephen Fry shares his love of language in Fry's Planet Word - 0 views

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    Review of TV series Planet Word
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Spoken Kosal - 1 views

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    KOSAL KHIEV IS A POET, TATTOO ARTIST, AND SURVIVOR OF THE US PRISON SYSTEM
Jenni Young

A View From the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez - 1 views

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    Robert Rodriguez's memoir, "The Hunger of Memory" (1982) is an account of his painful separation from the Spanish-speaking world of his family in his journey to becoming a fully assimilated American.
Jenni Young

Con Respeto, I am Not Richard Rodriguez by Norma Mota-Altman - 0 views

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    Essay by a bilingual teacher about "English only" policies. See also "A View from the melting pot", an interview with Robert Rodriguez
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Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory and the rejection of the private self - 0 views

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    Analysis of Rodriguez's The Hunger of Memory by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (chapter from US Latino Literature)
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