Angilee Shah

Apr 24 '13

Did you come to the US as a child or a teenager? What were your biggest challenges fitting in?

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Mar 1 '13

Can you help us name our series?

pritheworld:

With our partners at PRI, we’ve been telling stories recently about first and second generation Americans: their successes and failures, hopes and challenges. 

Now we’re thinking about giving a name to this coverage and we need your help. Which of these names resonates most with you?

American Passages

Immigrant Lives

Life in America

Global Nation

Please leave your thoughts in the comments.

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Jan 29 '13
Kids Improve Lives in Kolkata Slums

Kids are fantastic. They just do things.

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By Rhitu Chatterjee

In the heart of Kolkata, on the edge of the railroad tracks, is a sprawling slum. Hundreds of tiny huts and small brick houses sit on a maze of narrow streets.

Just outside the slum, new roads have been built and modern apartment complexes have sprung up, but here the…

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Jan 3 '13
pritheworld: Educators in Mexico are adjusting to their newest students who are having trouble keeping up in class: U.S.-raised kids now back in Mexico with their parents, who have returned home in the face of America’s rising deportation and fewer jobs.  In the rural state of Zacatecas, where people have long migrated to the U.S., thousands of U.S. school-aged kids have entered Mexican schools, some for the first time.  Coming soon to The World, Myles Estey reports on a pilot project to teach Mexican teachers English to help these students with their new lives.  Teachers, have you learned a second language to help your students? How did you learn and how have your classrooms changed?

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Educators in Mexico are adjusting to their newest students who are having trouble keeping up in class: U.S.-raised kids now back in Mexico with their parents, who have returned home in the face of America’s rising deportation and fewer jobs. 

In the rural state of Zacatecas, where people have long migrated to the U.S., thousands of U.S. school-aged kids have entered Mexican schools, some for the first time. 

Coming soon to The World, Myles Estey reports on a pilot project to teach Mexican teachers English to help these students with their new lives. 

Teachers, have you learned a second language to help your students? How did you learn and how have your classrooms changed?

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Dec 24 '12
Why my job is cool: I get to connect with people all over the world. (Obviously need to boost my understanding of South America, Africa.) via Twitter follower mapping tool: mapmyfollowers.com

Why my job is cool: I get to connect with people all over the world. (Obviously need to boost my understanding of South America, Africa.) via Twitter follower mapping tool: mapmyfollowers.com

Dec 22 '12

Dec 21 '12

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Daniel Inouye, the senior senator from Hawaii and the president pro-tempore of the US Senate, died Monday at the age of 88. He was born in 1924 to Japanese immigrants in Hawaii — before Hawaii was a state.

Inouye was elected to the US House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state. He won election to the US Senate three years later where he served for nearly 50 years.

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Dec 13 '12

What are your memories of living a multi-cultural life in the time of Ravi Shankar?

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“For people like me, multicultural, muti-racial, this was our music. And for those of us who grew up away from our ancestral home of India—living with ‘Imaginary Homelands,’ to use Salman Rushdie’s phrase— Shankar provided an easy bridge back—his explanations of Indian music helped us learn about ourselves.” -Arun Rath

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Nov 13 '12
pulitzercenter: The Pulitzer Center is looking for photos of tobacco advertising in Chinese schools as part of a special series on cancer in the developing world, produced in collaboration with the BBC World Service program The World. Your photo may be featured on the Pulitzer Center or The World’s website. Please send images to pulitzercenter@gmail.com. Help us share this call for photos by distributing it on social networks in China. Thank you! 征集中国校园内的香烟广告照片 普利策中心（The Pulitzer Center）正在征集中国校园内关于烟草广告与宣传的图片。作为普利策中心与BBC世界服务（BBC World Service Program）合作项目”世界（The World）” 的重要部分，您的图片将可能成为关于发展中国家的癌症研究特别系列，出现在普利策中心以及世界项目的网站上。 请发送您的照片至邮箱 pulitzercenter@gmail.com. 据研究表明，在中国，每年有超过百万的死亡是由烟草相关的疾病导致。若是缺乏有效措施的介入引导人们的吸烟习惯，这一数字及有可能迅速倍增。与此同时，由中国政府经营管理的烟草行业为广大校园提供资金与赞助，以在校园内投放烟草广告和投放香烟造型的糖果的方式达到宣传目的。 尽管在未来十年内，吸烟引起的疾病与死亡可能在经济与健康方面为中国带来数以万亿的损失，吸烟人群仍在不断壮大 。（若想进一步了解中国烟草行业与吸烟人群，请参考 2011 BusinessWeek 相关文献。 征集图片需为中国校园内的烟草广告主题，或能展示中国青少年吸烟人群。同时，征集图片需为作者原创，而非从网络，杂志或者第三方图源转载。在提交图片的同时，请注明图片的拍摄时间与地点。 欢迎在中国各大网站与媒体转发和宣传该次图片征集活动。

pulitzercenter:

The Pulitzer Center is looking for photos of tobacco advertising in Chinese schools as part of a special series on cancer in the developing world, produced in collaboration with the BBC World Service program The World. Your photo may be featured on the Pulitzer Center or The World’s website. Please send images to pulitzercenter@gmail.com.

Help us share this call for photos by distributing it on social networks in China. Thank you!

征集中国校园内的香烟广告照片

普利策中心（The Pulitzer Center）正在征集中国校园内关于烟草广告与宣传的图片。作为普利策中心与BBC世界服务（BBC World Service Program）合作项目”世界（The World）” 的重要部分，您的图片将可能成为关于发展中国家的癌症研究特别系列，出现在普利策中心以及世界项目的网站上。

请发送您的照片至邮箱 pulitzercenter@gmail.com.

据研究表明，在中国，每年有超过百万的死亡是由烟草相关的疾病导致。若是缺乏有效措施的介入引导人们的吸烟习惯，这一数字及有可能迅速倍增。与此同时，由中国政府经营管理的烟草行业为广大校园提供资金与赞助，以在校园内投放烟草广告和投放香烟造型的糖果的方式达到宣传目的。

尽管在未来十年内，吸烟引起的疾病与死亡可能在经济与健康方面为中国带来数以万亿的损失，吸烟人群仍在不断壮大 。（若想进一步了解中国烟草行业与吸烟人群，请参考 2011 BusinessWeek 相关文献。

征集图片需为中国校园内的烟草广告主题，或能展示中国青少年吸烟人群。同时，征集图片需为作者原创，而非从网络，杂志或者第三方图源转载。在提交图片的同时，请注明图片的拍摄时间与地点。

欢迎在中国各大网站与媒体转发和宣传该次图片征集活动。

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Nov 8 '12

First learned about sexism, misogyny and the threats women gamers routinely encounter at THATCamp Prime at George Mason University this summer. Glad to see it documented here by Canada’s Global News.

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