The current political climate in India, fueled by the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC), remains non-inclusive of the diverse ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds present in the country today. The CAA, passed in December 2019, allows non-Muslim immigrants in India who are originally…
English is not my first language. It’s also not my second language. I grew up listening to and speaking an amalgamation of three different Chinese dialects: Mandarin, Cantonese, and Fujianese. Most children play with dolls and teddy bears – I spent the first four-and-a-half years of my life…
California is expected to formally apologize for Japanese Internment Camp during WWII with the HR-77 bill. The infamous Executive Order 9066 forcefully expelled 120,000 Japanese Immigrants to the Manzanar Internment Camp in California, among others in remote places. The would-be human rights crisis in today’s standards was fueled…
photo by Phoebe Chiu Since their opening on December 22nd, business at Ichi Tea and Sushi has been flourishing. Serving quality beverages and mouth watering sushi, Ichi Tea and Sushi is a strong competitor to other eateries in Westwood. An adjunct to Del Sushi, a popular sushi bar…
“The language you think in is the one you’re most comfortable in.” my eighth grade English teacher had once announced, to a class of yawning teenagers. I sat in the front row, squeezing my eyes shut to try and think. But thinking about thinking is harder than you’d…