AMCT°_3-3-Common inheritance and diversity
Will English always be the global language?
Maori facial markings get visibility
Maori journalist becomes first person with facial markings to present primetime news Written by Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Updated 31st December 2021 Maori journalist becomes first person with facial markings to present primetime news A Maori journalist has made history in New Zealand by becoming the first person with traditional facial markings to host a primetime … Continuer la lecture
Indigenous communities celebrate the Aboriginal Flag
Who is Harold Thomas, the man who created the Aboriginal flag? Posted Tue 25 Jan 2022 Harold Thomas designed the Aboriginal flag in 1970.(Supplied: David Hancock) The Aboriginal flag, for the first time, can now be freely used by all Australians. That’s because Harold Thomas, the man who designed the flag, agreed to transfer its copyright to the Commonwealth … Continuer la lecture
The truth is out: Britain’s immigration system is racist. Now let’s fix it.
All parties, including my own, have been complicit in making bigoted laws. Acknowledging this is the first step to rectifying it. Diane Abbott Mon 30 May 2022 A protest march in London against the 1971 immigration bill. Photograph: Frank Barratt/Getty Images The unspoken rationale underlying British immigration policy since the second world war has always … Continuer la lecture
Racism on US Campus
The Extraordianry Treck of George Takei
The problem we all live with
The “Contemporary” Racial Conscience and Sensitivity of Norman Rockwell
Two decades of Indigenous photography
Sometimes photos are more powerful than words They can touch your heart and soul when words speak to the mind.
Language adapts to people not the contrary.
My English will never be ‘perfect’ – and that’s what keeps a language alive by Nesrine Malik As a child, I mixed English with Arabic. Now I know there’s no such thing as a fixed language that belongs to one special group. A sign for English lessons in Nawalgarh, Rajasthan, India. Photograph: Alamy Mon 28 … Continuer la lecture
Dangerous gene myths abound…
20 years after the human genome was first sequenced, dangerous gene myths abound Misleading rhetoric has fuelled the belief that our genetic code is an ‘instruction book’ – but it’s far more interesting than that. Philip Ball ‘Successes in gene therapy remain rare, and medicine tailored to people’s individual genetic constitution has not yet materialised.’ … Continuer la lecture
