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Features & analyses

Lessons from Rwanda: What living abroad taught me about communication in NYC

In the most diverse city in the US, intercultural communication reflects and enhances the richness of our communities. Written by Hannah Wood Four years of living and working in Rwanda, a small country in East Africa, has inspired me, an American woman, to believe that a person’s communication style, or choice of language, is a valuable piece of one’s story. Diversity, languages, and accents should be celebrated, not stigmatized.   Back in the US, I find myself carefully examining intercultural...

Features & analyses

Bilingualism: The driving force of NYC

Written by Edil Cuepo Any block you turn onto or bar you enter in New York City, chances are good you’ll encounter people speaking a language other than English. The variety of languages spoken by residents of NYC is estimated to be as many as 800 — 176 of which are spoken in the city’s public schools. We live in a vibrant city full of tourists and foreign-born residents; a melting pot of different cultures and languages. According to Census...