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On the mechanics of self-censorship

av thomas,15.12.10

I stumbled upon this piece by Frank Dai, and find the description of the mechanics of self-censorship to be equally entertaining and explicable: All the staff at the Chinese bureaucratical institutions tend to think one thing first before they did (…)

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M.I.A – Born Free

av thomas,1.5.10

Det er grafisk og nokså blodig. Samtidig virker det nesten for absurd. Jeg har tenkt på denne siden jeg så den midt på dagen i går, og tenker fortsatt på den. Derfor syns jeg det er en god ytring. Kommer (…)

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Shouting across the divide

av thomas,26.10.09

When he addressed the Muslim world from Cairo this spring, his State Department translated the text into 13 languages and hired bike-messengers to hand-deliver recordings to African radio stations. Sasha Issenberg on Barack Obama’s ability to make America’s international reputation (…)

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Bilingualism

av thomas,16.2.09

It’s a long story.

Prof. Jim Cummins @ HiO

av thomas,30.10.08

Empty seats where hard to come by as Jim Cummins paid Oslo University College a visit today, for an inspiring session on Identity in multicultural classrooms. The canadian Prof. focused especially on the importance of approaching multiculturalism, multilingualism and diversity (…)

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