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A recent report from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that despite the increasing diversity in the U.S., the number of children’s books written by or about people of color continues to be very low. 
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One of the sad truths of the Zimmerman trial is this: Despite the back and forth about legal elements of the case like "reasonable doubt", the racism of the jurors likely decided the outcome, and ...
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Education is supposed to be a great equalizer, but even the brightest low-income students rarely receive the opportunities that less-educated rich people do. (Does Education Actually Shrink Wealth Inequality?
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The Senate has approved a long-awaited immigration reform bill that creates a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants while imposing unprecedented new measures for border security.
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Famous pops, from Aaron Sorkin to Bassem Youssef, share open letters to their daughters in honor of Father's Day.
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Note comment from rpmunlmtd: missing Black dads
Also note threeutes comment concerning other demographic categories missing. However, the omission of the other demographics may be less significant in terms of American exceptionalism.
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New research finds a virtual-reality experiment in which you experience yourself as a person of color reduces deep-seated prejudice.
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"22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other"
Lena Minassian's curator insight,
January 27, 2015 5:58 PM
This article was actually funny and interesting. You do not really pay attention to the pronunciation of words just because we are surrounded by the same people who say a particular word the same way. Many individuals in the US are in for a culture shock if they leave their respected homes. One word that you have grown up with may be a completely different word in another area. We tend to not focus a lot of attention on the smaller details like this type of grammar and pronunciation so this caught my eye because it was interesting to think about and realize how you say words compared to the rest of the United States. 
Louis Mazza's curator insight,
January 28, 2015 11:53 AM
to me this is not so shocking but definitely entertaining. i mean between my family their is pronunciation differences. some say tomato others say toma`to right? not all English is the same is a concept that makes perfect sense to me. in other countries such as Italy, a person from the north cannot understand a person from the south because they speak in different dialects. perhaps it has to their with their location, or job types. but it holds true that different parts of a country can speak the same language in different ways. 
Kevin Cournoyer's curator insight,
April 8, 2015 3:04 PM
I've seen this collection of maps a number of times before, but they are just as interesting and informative every time I look at them. It's really a fun exercise in seeing what phrases you use or how you pronounce certain words as opposed to the rest of the country. As a Rhode Islander, the bubbler/water fountain divide was of particular interest to me. I also found it funny that I have the vaguely Western/Midwestern tendency of calling "rotaries" (or what are traditionally called rotaries in my area), "roundabouts". This is especially curious to me, because I generally tend to think of that term as a British one. Could this possibly mean that a lot of British immigrants settled in the Western/Midwestern United States? Or am I just mistaken and buying into a poorly informed stereotype about British people?
Whatever the case, these maps are very informative and say a lot about the linguistic differences that occur even within one country. Now granted, the United States is a large country, so there is bound to be a good amount of variation. But it's still fascinating to me just how much variety there can be. The fact that when traveling, your use or pronunciation of a certain word or phrase can immediately identify you as an out-of-towner is very interesting. This is yet another example of the importance of doing your own research in order to avoid making incorrect assumptions. Just because all of the people within a geographic border may live in the same country, it does not mean that their dialects or colloquialisms are all the same. It does not even necessarily mean that they speak the same language. Different immigrant groups (because almost no country is impervious to immigration) settle in different areas and this ends up contributing (in part) to the different dialects and expressions that one finds within geographic borders. |
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New research study reveals race is a factor among teen choices on social-media networks.
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New York's four million women on average earn 80 percent of what men earn, will earn 500,000 dollars less than men over the course of a lifetime, are twice a... Via Marion Chapsal, Erika Watson, Annabel Kaye
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May 22, 2013 5:04 PM
We earn less, own less, are valued less...will it change? |
