As I mentioned before, I don’t divulge that I’m Haitian-American (operative word being “American”) to most people I meet here. In my Spanish class, however, there is a camaraderie among us since we are such a small group and they all know that I was raised in the US. The group is made up of [...]
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A Rose by any Other Name …
Happy Rose Originally uploaded by 1st Love Flowers I have always been fascinated with the way that cultures label things. For instance, when I was studying abroad in France, one of my professors was talking about bidonvilles, the equivalent of slums in English. I started talking to him about some bidonvilles that I [...]
