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THE PROBLEM OF INTEGRATION
I gasp when I hear that the failure of integration in Europe only applies to Muslims and other groups like Asians ‘who don’t cause any troub
CHILDREN OF IMMIGRANTS
‘Immigrant children grow up with an enormous pressure to succeed,’ said an Iranian-American poet at an evening talk I attended in Berlin....
THE THIRD PLACE
‘Why are you in Berlin?,’ people asked me when I was living in Berlin. I certainly didn’t have the mindset of immigrating to Germany,...
THE ROOT CAUSES OF THE UK RIOT
Following the fatal stabbing of three young girls at a dance class in the seaside town of South port in the summer of 2024, the worst...
LIFE & DEATH OF A DOWNTOWN
The first thing I noticed about Springfield, Missouri was that there were four Walmarts flanking each corner of the city. I had moved to...
THE JEWEL OF AMERICAN EDUCATION
In 1993, when my brother was 15 and when I was 13, my parents decided to move to America. The primary reason for moving to America was to...
NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION
Over the Spring Break in my junior year of college in March 2002, I went on a week-long volunteer trip to a Native-American reservation...
THE VALUE OF DIVERSITY
Throughout the 90s and 2000s, it seemed evident that diversity was becoming established more and more as a value in America — that...