Budget creates havoc at Lowell - The Lowell

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Products of Race Fusion
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language*. Someone who is Chinrte
>sxprM«rs thrir emotions in OuiieM*.
But inhc child can oii!y »petl. English.
tkru the diild rnw h*s tl v t a not io: u'
wjancctwn'wltlitfu pmu.iv
'It's very frusirjtiujj ivcJUM- vvi*Bi
,w>u need u -At«rd tn Spanish, you ntig-r
only laiow it iti Chinese." Chin«e-
Spaniih sophomort' Fiizjheth Tv wit J.
"MygranJujothcr »mcr caUednV'ni
japan and WH* warned to t.ilk to my
OTXher^hcpOTiatf-JapaneJe sopliomare'viT.'nen
Halint saLVMy mother
was in the shower, but 1 didn't know
how to tell my frandmoiho.- Uu:. 1
> tried to trU her, but 1 ende^ up wymg
that my morn wasn't home. It «:;. re
'allyfrii^ratiftj."
"My [mother'O*t-nJiyrr>ak..^*imrif
nu: bfCi'uw I Tjxxak rVii*TJieTTcrtcVind
WVu»e father i'. USihn '•
; \\Wsh. _\ frrf bod for not knowing ihc
lanpuape."
tuniorA aruAkbarwIu'ii.'Jhinc-* 1
end A%han, «id, "Snmtotrcs at thi
dinner table, iheyll (her rebtnTs] h;
ttitinpiji Chinese. Itil be a fealty intEnseconvn'otjon.and
!'m, fit 1 , what's
going on?"
When btracul parents speak to tiicir
children more in thrir natiw Unguagts,
f i V H l
Asian
+ -
Caucasian = /
:%r^
ehadjen\\Tlilrarnmwealxrotthe.Un^ , get ni'kh from it,"Sn.:.T!dn*twifrt !->
^a^^•*' : If^it^ii'!^^^^eda«^e8o'>iwnr" lean the language btcause' »\l >!«r
t^ comniuradU' w;«
'. would ir-fwv in-nc," he SJJJ.
MA^r interracial voupl^i doit'*
w.f')i their chiJdrm to A Ygft their rcxM«:'
Teadunc; them then ttarivc language'
is a ".•ay to present their oiltures. "\f
the parent makes the same effoti that
UK (inti rrwJica, ibat p\-ft them a nw.i
ing p'oc:0 Uoibnjcr saul
"My f OTLTI'J want rac to Ic-^x^ Iwth
ijri^wges. Tnc,- srili warn me to have
t'ls 1 . onr Jrnk.'that mr f-^nd, t • ifiHr
otj|rtir:r! ufni 1 Ani. Mv h,u>*-r ;v jn
oruvfhilu-.inJ'iwf :*'iy two'jieranu 1
OTK tru 1 o»n!:nuin« irr/Kratko. Mv i.ithiT
dccd to
Sinid, «; w TnyyrandmnthtT's house s/»
that sl>e'd t«vich me Ou:iCf,'
It ,vnn!d w.t liicTi aivi'-^ li-ii»fi»:t'i;i
M» (hcv'd knoiv tvh'.f c th-.-v>•; :omriii
trnm."
Orewing uy in .Vrniriw's *ooci' • •
mu!ticuitiiralchiI\1rt^ir.iaj'Wd> r i-4:iiJt
:io%v. but the exjyriences of t&, A
yotiih may «oon smooth the l»un*4'»
road which they have been walking
ilong for «*m:te «>me time.
Denied the right
to choose an identity
B* luina Chow «nd Kuhcrine Jun|t
*M*rk one thai appljea.-"
Staring at ti»c application, jou debute
Srlwctn your rwo races. ;no»ii»i
you mark your nether'* ethnicity
ivludi could give you ;• *Ktln dunce
at schools jind scholarships cj jetir
UL'ICT > cthruoty? Cir -Jnnj'-J >w» uke
the easy »ray ca t by pickinft the "other"
catrgory?
"I check the 'other' box because 1
diifi't like to sej»*«ate- myself between
my rnon and my dad, frethmer:
Ma:Ti
taiif.
Many muJbiatial p»>ple nwoimi«
the dilemma i"rfthoofliiga "yfyorv
'hat itcur.iu.''y desrHbe* their metal
i>a«.kgr0UT>d.
^iornc, like senior Aisbhd Na>na%-],
'.hotisc thv- category "other 11 bo'au*e
thry SK umu r f M to u-hat they Utould
;h(H.»x". ".My molhci i> Chinese-Viettumi:w;M('npvili.M-
^nd rtench and
••.IIJ.
unj 1 nt-ukni'.'il
(njri,in- (.J (",»vm me
Ajili.tr i.iKfti* .i;-»'so Hi-j"--tri:V bejfcjtuw
t! wv*ii'.l f,!iv him' J SrUci' iliLiut-
^teKJ..!. 1 ! . i.l.T j)^lhtni;jr all.
»ifitel4»icr >1;>^ the US. Office of
MameciiKitt md Budget (OMB) condxivfed
j lira ring in San Frandscn to
i!;y;us« aeatmg A ^nilliracul e*topxY,
M»-.iy demands -..«r made to add u
•|iiuttirj-;ijj" Sox tn ttw* 2000 ixntu*
tik.1 to »t! oilu; j^jvcmnicn i-trfiooi,
t nipInyiiuiU aiKi liiki't^al Cyims 'Jut
,;X quotiuns aix'UT raor iv ethnkit).
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ii ii..inj;t^ have been made,"
ii Mtk(»>J, 'ietnographics editor
fi&.i i'ttmtiMV ( 1'mfiklfsaid in a
.nti,T view with TV/jfrwdLTaiy
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a t iMilfont;
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ju'gory UNI marfciell that «pph/ T to
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lie on a tin m," Carlos And ^haBcn^e it in the cuurts."
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