Tag: ethnicity
On My Own Terms
"We're all fundamentally the same and our differences are trivial, and I disagree with that wholeheartedly. We're fundamentally different, and we have an unbelievable amount in common." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102166059" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you...
Nobody Talks to Me
"I was getting mad every single time." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/61169523" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflection. Clarifying Questions What does the narrator experience in...
We Don’t Know What You Guys Think
"We really want to make friends with any American students." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48718434" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would you...
I Have a Mohawk; I’m Scaring People
"On those really, silly, totally American, almost hackneyed or clichéd topics, you find these commonalities, and then you can just burrow from there." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/48623171" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation...
My Father Had to Take on Two Jobs
"It made me feel bad to have to ask him for support." http://youtu.be/C1eZYXJ64RE Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflection. Clarifying Questions The speaker tells us that her family moved...
Curious In A Very Positive Way
"I love that my older daughter makes reference to her friend, Regina, as brown." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105945992" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflecti.. Clarifying...
Enamored With These Beautiful, Young Faces
“It takes a lot for our hearts and our minds and our eyes to get there, where we start viewing groups that look different than us not as groups but as individuals.” [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105906684" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]...
I Am International
"My two other American roommates and myself would never consider ourselves very American. When people ask us, we would always say, 'We are international.'" http://youtu.be/MB6VMIPsNyM Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom?...
First Generation
"I never knew I was illegal." http://youtu.be/9UDQ_AbzXHE Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflection. Clarifying Questions What do we learn about the storyteller’s family? How does the storyteller...