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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
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...
THE EAST WEST DIVIDE
When I was ten years old, I remember watching the news of reunification of Germany on TV in the living room of my childhood apartment in...
ON REFUGEE CRISIS
In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis in Europe, I found it astonishing that there couldn’t even be a rational debate about...
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
I hadn’t known too much about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict myself, but I decided to teach a design studio about the conflict back in...