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...thing as a perfectly distinct French culture, whose decline is to be mourned and struggled against, and whose resurrection is to be sought with great fervor. One can assume that the presence of this immortal French culture means that there also still exist strong Italian, Spanish, Romanian and English cultures. So why do the media refer to African culture but hardly ever to Nigerian culture, distinct from Kenyan or Algerian culture, for instance? Perhaps it's easier to focus on the lowest common denominator of the African experience than on the unique cultural signifiers that every African country possesses...
...eaten the last can. He grew up in poverty. ("I was so poor," jokes Ringo, "that I had to hop to school. We only had one shoe.") He hasn't been back to Merseyside since his stepdad's funeral 11 years ago. Ask Ringo if he's English and he answers, "No. I'm world." If there's a football match, he'll root for England or his real passion, Liverpool FC; otherwise, he says, "I feel more American sometimes than most Americans." His accent, unlike the man himself, still pays dues to his homeland, but also owes...
...you’re calling out Soulja Boy, but we won’t make you name names. In your book “Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture,” you wrote, “People who don’t respect African American English (AAE) scare me, especially if they’re black.” Explain. MM: When I say it scares me, it’s more like, “Wait a minute.” If you grew up in this kind of community, it wasn?...
...handed to them on silver platters, unless they work in the catering industry. And this is an important lesson, although an ability to write a moving essay about your maternal aunt’s devastating lifelong battle with leprosy never hurts.Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is an English concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...year law professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard’s first Jewish president, have also participated in the lighting ceremony. At the end of the lighting, the group broke out into a Hebrew song. And when a member of the crowd requested a song in English, the revelry continued with, “I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay.” Friday’s ceremony represents a significant shift from Harvard’s earlier years, when it limited the number of Jewish students admitted to the University...