Languages
Destinations With Doni: Wringing Out the Powerful, Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of ‘Wakanda Forever’ — Part 3 (AUDIO)
In the last of our three-part series on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” we talk about the two feather serpent gods of Mexico — Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan — and close out by having our panelists provide their cross-cultural perspectives on the […]
Regina Spektor: Language as a Means of Love
Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor has defined her career through lingual mobility similar to how her childhood was defined by cultural mobility. Spektor was born in the Soviet Union to Russian-Jewish artists Ilya and Bella Spektor in 1980. According to All Music, […]
WHAT IS BLACK?
IN TERMS OF PEOPLE, BLACKNESS IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH HOMOGENEITY. 3 MINUTE READ Around the globe, no matter where you find the shade of skin that ranges from milky to mocha, deep chocolate to charcoal, as varied as the skin […]
TCK Cultural Identity Discovered through Art – Part 1 of 3
Third culture kids (TCKs) are people that have spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their parents’ culture. Their home, host countries and experiences become the third culture. This can be a lot for anyone under the […]
How This Translator Uses Language to Connect with Different Cultures
My name is Andrea Bazoin, and I am a translator. In high school, I used my then-limited Spanish to translate for the Central American immigrants who came to my checkout line at the grocery store in our small Nebraska town. Interpreting their “Cuanto cuesta?” was helpful, but I knew what I was really translating was a message of welcome.
Heritage and its Connection to Past, Present and Future
“Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can,
examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it.
Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.”
Keka Araújo is Unapologetically Afro-Latina
“I remember when you told black Latinas that they were black and they would want to fight you,” says Keka Araújo, as we discuss the recently fashionable topic of being Afro-Latina. “Some people want to make me biracial. I am not biracial; I am bicultural,” she continues. “I am unapologetically black.”
Language, a Culture All Its Own
As people, we’ve developed a psychological preset to categorize individuals based on linguistic pronunciation. We can easily determine a person’s origin by the way they speak a common language. But what happens when we have the mingling of multiple cultures over a period of time?
