For Rawhi Said, talking about his family leaving Bosnia amid war in the 1990s, staying in a refugee camp in Croatia and ultimately arriving in Minnesota when he was around 2 is a way to shed light on genocides that have taken place in the recent past and to try to build bridges between people, regardless of their culture. Said is one of the speakers at Winona State University’s (WSU) upcoming “Expanding Perspective” virtual speaker series, which is open to community members.
Through the series, community members have an opportunity to learn about recent genocides with Said, Indigenous food systems of North America with chef Sean Sherman, trans masculinities with Cooper Bombardier and jazz and the civil rights movement with Galen Abdur-Razzaq.
I am a mixed raced person (with a Black, White, Asian, and Indigenous background kinda like Tiger Woods), raised in California, but spent 13 years in Portland, Oregon. I spent 25 plus years in.
How Human Memory is Fundamentally Cultural
A new review of psychological research explores how culture permeates and shapes human memory what we remember, recall, and forget.
In a new article in the
Annual Review of Psychology, author Qi Wang of Cornell University reviews the research evidence that suggests that human memory is intrinsically shaped by culture. Wang then uses the examples of working, episodic, and autobiographical memory to show how culture is implicated at the very foundation of memory.
“Rather than merely being a neurocognitive faculty within the individual, human memory functions as an open system thoroughly immersed in cultural contexts,” Wang writes.
Terms like ‘Chinese virus’ by US Secretary of State, increased bias against Asian-Americans: Study
The term was popularized by Trump’s secretary of state Mike Pompeo among others
By Hanie Abdul Razak| Updated: 23rd January 2021 4:59 pm IST Representative image (IANS)
In a study published by two PhD students from the University of California, Berkeley it was found that popularization of terms like “Wuhan Flu” and “China Virus” by the US secretary of state among other Republican figures and conservative media outlets increased unconscious bias against Asian-Americans.
On March 7, US’s secretary of state Mike Pompeo had called COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus” on
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