Tag: travel
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America is Not an English-Speaking Nation, and We Can’t Expect it to Be.
In the United States, pressure on immigrants to learn English can be unnecessary, unproductive, and even malicious. Before he got sick and moved in with my family, my mother’s father was working on a translation of Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace.” As he read the pages of dense English text, he translated each line into…
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La Equis: Art’s Role at the U.S.-Mexico Border
My vision stretched across the vastness of the expanse before me – the last few miles of El Paso, Texas, the U.S./ Mexico border, and beyond that, Juarez, Mexico – only to be disrupted by a structure rising over 200 feet tall, dwarfing its surroundings for miles. An X. Not just a letter, but a declaration.La…
