Growing up as a Chinese kid with flat hair for most of his life, cut by only the best barber in town, my dad, still huge forehead and focus on those A++ grades. There's absolutely no way you can tell that I actually don't fit into the AsianAmerican community. Oh, except I don't speak Chinese.Am I a bad Asian. I ask myself this question whenever my family eats at an authentic Chinese restaurant, like the ones where the walls are as old as the grandpa's eating there, and the decor is non-existent. The waiters ...

RT Kaiser Von Lohengramm (@KaiserLoengramm)The murders, rapes and gang activity of foreigners gets the most attention. But it’s the banality of it that affects us every day that we ignore that has the most impact on us day to day.That we can hardly use public services because of them.That hospitals are crowded and the doctors and nurses are likely to speak in thick indiscernible accents.That they act in a manners that is uncouth for our civilization and simply do not care to do as Romans do.That they insert ...

Asalamaikkum. It's a very difficult topic. I think the first topic that was given to me was much easier and that was about how media has transformed Pakistan into.But when you say re-imagining culture, we have to define what culture is. And I think as I was preparing for this topic, the more I read about culture and the culture of Pakistan, it was so difficult for me to assess what is the culture of Pakistan. Culture basically means shared values and belief that a group of people or individuals have.Is Pakt ...

Does this work. Yes. How many of you know this theorem.Just raise your hands. Okay, so almost everybody. You probably learned in school that Pythagoras, the Greek mathematician and philosopher, discovered this theorem.But what if I told you that wasn't the full story. that this theorem was known in Babylon, ancient Egypt and ancient India thousands of years before that. Let me give you a few more.The quadratic formula which is a fundamental part of schooling was discovered by Alarismi, an Arab mathematician ...

RT Colin Brazier (@ColinBrazierTV)The story this week about the English countryside being inherently racist and "too white" ought to be a turning point.It made me think of a TV interview in 2007 I did with the then priest at St Clement's Church in Bradford, where I was baptised as a baby. I've written about this before, but it bears repeating.The priest was born in Sindh Province, in Pakistan, the son of Christian missionaries. Consequently, he spoke good Urdu, better than many of his parishioners, who were ...

I once had to Google what it meant to be Kenyon. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but there I was sitting in a classroom in Dubai when my teacher asked me a very simple question. What's your home country like.The questions came quickly after that. What do Kenyans eat. What do Kenyans celebrate.What's it like over there. And all I could offer were fragments of culture that I had heard from relatives rather than from lived experience. Because from out of my 15 years, only three were spent in Kenya.The rest were ...

When I was a child in Igloolik and I would look up into the stars, I always had the feeling of anything is possible. Without the language, the culture does not exist. Culture and language work together.The language divide remains a challenge. AI brings an amazing opportunity to build a large language model for a low resource language. We want every community to leverage this technology, use it for their own case, and improve upon it.We didn't speak much English growing up. Syllabics was what we were taught. ...

كل لغه بيت وحكايه المشهد الاول تخيل انك صحيت بكره الصبح ولقيت نفسك فجاه نزيت اللغه العربيه تماما فقدتها تماما مش قادر تقول ولا حتى كلمه واحده باللغه العربيه ولا حتى صباح الخير مش قادر تتواصل مع اي حد معاك في البيت اللي انت عايشه البيت اللي انت اتولدت فيه وعشت فيه طول حياتك بلغه الام يا ترى احساسك هيكون ساعتها ايه؟ احساس صادم ومؤلم جدا المشهد الثاني هل حصل قبل كده انك تواصلت مع حد او عبرت عن رايك بلغه غير لغتك الام وحسيت انك واحد ثاني الموقف ده حصل لي من اكت من 30 سنه لما كنت طالب في قسم اللغه الانجليزيه في ...

Tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak p tak certains ontnu C'est incroyable. Quelques notes et tout revient. Sensation, émotion, images.Et au cœur de tout ça, il y a ce petit motif, le tac p tac p tac tac p tac p tac. Simple en apparence mais c'est la pulsation cachée de la musique. C'est comme un battement de cœur. C'est le socle.Et sans lui, des milliers de chansons n'existeraient pas. et des bébés non plus. Je pense ce motif s'appelle une clave.Ici, on a cinq f ...

Names are not obstacles, they're bridges. Tchaikovski, Cesar, Ronan, Chu, Aia for Ray Fines, Amanda Seafford. The majority of you will recognize these names.Perhaps you've heard them so many times that you can say them in your sleep without any difficulty. So, I'll continue my list with some names you might not know. Maker Timmy Olu.Is there a difference between the two sets of names I've just said. My name is Touani Oluani Akilo. A name that carries with it a rich history of the world I was born into and a ...