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I'm Ashamed of My Accent When I Speak Spanish, but It's the Heart of My Identity

An accent that makes me hesitate before using Spanish to order in a Cuban cafeteria in Miami or speaking to another Latinx, afraid to reveal myself as a fraud, an American who speaks Spanish and not a ... read more

Opinion: Red Chair Interview: Why Yul Kwon ditched law for TV

Editor’s note: Yul Kwon ... grew ashamed of myself and my ethnicity. At school, I would mumble and talk fast because I didn’t think anyone would listen. I had a lisp, which people would sometimes mist... read more

Raising a Child in Two Worlds

And people began “asking” us — they lectured us, really — whether she would learn Spanish as well as English. I took the bait, constantly nagging Jose to speak to Nina only ... a stranger tried to sum ... read more

My Thoughts on the "Judicial Temperament" Criticism of Judge Kavanaugh

I speak here of human friends, not Vulcans. "Painful," which is the adjective the letter uses, does not begin to describe it. I can't imagine how I would keep my composure in such a situation, even if ... read more

The Shocking Murder of Ilan Halimi

Little did Ilan Halimi know that day ... A young man speaking French with a heavy African accent says, “You have 20 minutes to bring the money. If you contact the police, we will kill him.” My two dau... read more

Israel's nation-state bill threatens the mother tongue of Mizrahi Jews

The enemy within — our denied Arab identity — was now ... as part of their shared experience. My efforts to make a change with my children, who read Torah in Yemeni with an Arabic accent and understan... read more

Real-Life Vampires Exist, and Researchers Are Studying Them

Some semblance of the real vampire community has existed since at least the early to mid-1970s, but my own dealings began in 2009 when I entered the New Orleans community clinging to my digital voice ... read more

5 reasons foreigners find it hard to become friends with Japanese people

Soon enough, I’d be seeing the same people at parties and hosting them in my disgusting college-boy “apartment” (probably classified by normal people as a “disaster area”). In Japan, striking up a con... read more

Study: Most Hispanics Prefer Describing Identity From Family’s Country Of Origin

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — A study shows that most Hispanics do not prefer the term “Hispanic” or “Latino” when it comes to describing their identity ... but they also want to hold onto their Spanish-speaki... read more

Opinion: What does Blackness look like?

A mix of African, Native American, French, and sometimes Spanish heritage ... to realize some of the privileges my dark skin carries; the most profound of which is its ability to clearly communicate m... read more

Her Name was Patience

Her name was Patience, and that was enough to do her in ... Her clothes weren't as nice, her hair was limper and, like dogs that smell fear, my classmates sensed her terror. As she made her way down t... read more

A Yiddish Revival, With New York Leading the Way

“I was literate and understood my mother’s songs ... of being unsettled. Next to speak was Itzik Nakhmen Gottesman, a scholar and editor at The Yiddish Forward, a weekly that has experienced a revival ... read more