Author: Solina Wong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734719307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Ellie, a food-loving little girl of Asian and Black decent, goes on a quest in her multiculturally diverse neighborhood for dumplings to eat with her mother's homemade noodles. She discovers where food comes from and how it is grown and obtained as she encounters her neighbors along the way. Ellie experiences their kindness and food gifts, and she learns to make dumplings for the first time with her mother.This is a story about a child's love of food and how culture is being passed on to her by the food prepared in her family's kitchen. It is also a story about where food comes from, and how it is a universal language of all people, otherwise known as the human race; and that food is both a fundamental need and a pleasure for all human kind. Thusly, it brings people together. It acts as a binder and can be the best diplomat of all. Implicitly interwoven is a story about being bicultural and inhabiting the influences of many cultures simply by being raised and interacting daily with a multicultural, diverse community.
Ellie's Quest for Noodles and Dumplings
Author: Solina Wong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734719307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Ellie, a food-loving little girl of Asian and Black decent, goes on a quest in her multiculturally diverse neighborhood for dumplings to eat with her mother's homemade noodles. She discovers where food comes from and how it is grown and obtained as she encounters her neighbors along the way. Ellie experiences their kindness and food gifts, and she learns to make dumplings for the first time with her mother.This is a story about a child's love of food and how culture is being passed on to her by the food prepared in her family's kitchen. It is also a story about where food comes from, and how it is a universal language of all people, otherwise known as the human race; and that food is both a fundamental need and a pleasure for all human kind. Thusly, it brings people together. It acts as a binder and can be the best diplomat of all. Implicitly interwoven is a story about being bicultural and inhabiting the influences of many cultures simply by being raised and interacting daily with a multicultural, diverse community.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734719307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Ellie, a food-loving little girl of Asian and Black decent, goes on a quest in her multiculturally diverse neighborhood for dumplings to eat with her mother's homemade noodles. She discovers where food comes from and how it is grown and obtained as she encounters her neighbors along the way. Ellie experiences their kindness and food gifts, and she learns to make dumplings for the first time with her mother.This is a story about a child's love of food and how culture is being passed on to her by the food prepared in her family's kitchen. It is also a story about where food comes from, and how it is a universal language of all people, otherwise known as the human race; and that food is both a fundamental need and a pleasure for all human kind. Thusly, it brings people together. It acts as a binder and can be the best diplomat of all. Implicitly interwoven is a story about being bicultural and inhabiting the influences of many cultures simply by being raised and interacting daily with a multicultural, diverse community.
Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Colorado Libraries
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Quest
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
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Category : Physical education and training
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Library Media Connection
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference
Author: Elke Murdock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137596791
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the ‘natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides. This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by individuals.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137596791
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the ‘natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides. This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by individuals.
Roots Quest
Author: Jackie Hogan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442274573
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging—for roots.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442274573
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging—for roots.
Brexit The Quest for Freedom
Author: Norman Johnsen
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593315
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
A critique of Britain's relationship with the EU and the necessity for Brexit in retaining the cultural and economic integrity of our heritage and in avoiding the collapse of living standards.
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593315
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 71
Book Description
A critique of Britain's relationship with the EU and the necessity for Brexit in retaining the cultural and economic integrity of our heritage and in avoiding the collapse of living standards.
Islamism and the Quest for Hegemony in Indonesia
Author: Luqman Nul Hakim
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981199661X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the dominant discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and neoliberal democracy, this study situates Islamic politics in broader social settings by examining its nature and trajectories throughout Indonesia’s modern political history. The book thus investigates how the practices of Islamic politics, or Islamism, have shaped and been transformed through political contestations and the formation of coalitions of multiple forces in constructing Indonesia’s socio-political landscape. Using the concept of hegemony from poststructuralist discourse theory, the analytical framework applied in this book goes beyond liberal epistemologies of Islamism that prescribe the separation of religion from politics and treat Islamism as an object of intervention. Instead, the book is premised on the contention that Indonesia is a political construction, in which Islam has become one of the major discourses that have defined and transformed Indonesia’s nation-state throughout history. In this view, it is argued that the nature and dynamics of Islamism are not driven primarily by different interpretations of religious doctrines, cultural norms or by the imperative of institutions. Rather, the struggles of different Islamist projects in their quest for hegemony are contingent on the outcomes of socio-political changes and contestations that involve multiple political forces, both within and beyond the Islamists, in specific historical conjunctures.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 981199661X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the dominant discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and neoliberal democracy, this study situates Islamic politics in broader social settings by examining its nature and trajectories throughout Indonesia’s modern political history. The book thus investigates how the practices of Islamic politics, or Islamism, have shaped and been transformed through political contestations and the formation of coalitions of multiple forces in constructing Indonesia’s socio-political landscape. Using the concept of hegemony from poststructuralist discourse theory, the analytical framework applied in this book goes beyond liberal epistemologies of Islamism that prescribe the separation of religion from politics and treat Islamism as an object of intervention. Instead, the book is premised on the contention that Indonesia is a political construction, in which Islam has become one of the major discourses that have defined and transformed Indonesia’s nation-state throughout history. In this view, it is argued that the nature and dynamics of Islamism are not driven primarily by different interpretations of religious doctrines, cultural norms or by the imperative of institutions. Rather, the struggles of different Islamist projects in their quest for hegemony are contingent on the outcomes of socio-political changes and contestations that involve multiple political forces, both within and beyond the Islamists, in specific historical conjunctures.
Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism
Author: D. Mitra Barua
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773557598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations. Drawing on survey data, over fifty in-depth interviews with temple monks, educators, parents, and children, and fieldwork conducted in Toronto and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism examines how a religious tradition is transmitted from one generation to the next in a new cultural setting, and what happens during that process of transmission. Barua demonstrates that Buddhists have passed on Buddhist beliefs, attitudes, and practices to their Canadian-born youth, who in turn have constructed their own distinct Buddhist identity, influenced by the individualistic, egalitarian, and secular cultural ambience in Toronto. Through creative fieldwork and translocal analysis – taking into account migrants' geographical, cultural, and familial ties to multiple locales – this book further explains that pre-migration experiences often shape and determine the success or failure of intergenerational transmission. An ethnographic religious study with an uncommon depth of perspective, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism shows that first- and second-generation Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto are successfully practising Theravāda Buddhism within a Canadian context.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773557598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Immigrants often face considerable challenges when it comes to preserving their cultural and religious teachings. D. Mitra Barua argues that the Sri Lankan Buddhist community in Toronto has maintained its coherence and integrity not despite but because of the need for cultural adaptations. Drawing on survey data, over fifty in-depth interviews with temple monks, educators, parents, and children, and fieldwork conducted in Toronto and Colombo, Sri Lanka, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism examines how a religious tradition is transmitted from one generation to the next in a new cultural setting, and what happens during that process of transmission. Barua demonstrates that Buddhists have passed on Buddhist beliefs, attitudes, and practices to their Canadian-born youth, who in turn have constructed their own distinct Buddhist identity, influenced by the individualistic, egalitarian, and secular cultural ambience in Toronto. Through creative fieldwork and translocal analysis – taking into account migrants' geographical, cultural, and familial ties to multiple locales – this book further explains that pre-migration experiences often shape and determine the success or failure of intergenerational transmission. An ethnographic religious study with an uncommon depth of perspective, Seeding Buddhism with Multiculturalism shows that first- and second-generation Sri Lankan Buddhists in Toronto are successfully practising Theravāda Buddhism within a Canadian context.