![Haruki Murakami has signed a deal for the English translation of “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage”…[it] sold over a million copies in just over a week…in Japan…
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Haruki Murakami has signed a deal for the English translation of “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage”…[it] sold over a million copies in just over a week…in Japan…
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Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are charged with being the intellectual authors of a savage campaign against the Ixil Maya, a stubbornly independent group of perhaps a hundred thousand Indians who speak their own language and inhabit a…region of the northern highlands, where the Cuchumatan mountains descend in long green folds toward the tropical forests along the Mexican border. In the early nineteen-eighties, the Ixil started coöperatives and unions. They were aggressively resisting seizures of their land and attempting to take back land that they claimed had once belonged to them.
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She’s African-American and grew up singing gospel music. But…[Jasmine Tierra] has become a YouTube sensation by singing in Hmong. That’s the language of an Asian ethnic group rooted in certain regions of China, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.
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Sesotho is not an African dialect it is a Bantu language primarily spoken in South Africa where it is one of the 11 official languages and in Lesotho. Calling Sesotho an African dialect is like saying English is a European dialect - an incorrect, misguided, and patronizing description. Nonetheless thank you for posting the film looking forward to watching. respect
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![…presented, with subtitles, in the African dialect of Sesotho—follows [main character] Mokoenya from the crime-riddled streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, to the homeland, Lesotho, from which he was plucked by his father as a young boy…
more. and more, plus a trailer, here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/115b4ceed689ea0caaf29e87444c6e54/tumblr_mm3pm4stiY1qcwnv4o1_500.jpg)
On April 25, after weeks of international campaigns and fundraisers, the executive management of the Independent…pulled the plug on its operations, days earlier than scheduled…Opened four years ago as an English language division to privately owned Arabic daily El Masry El Youm, the newspaper was one of few that chronicled the real beginnings of the Egyptian revolution…
…if honest interracial dialogue is essential to moving forward as a country, as many Americans believe it to be, it is counterproductive to heap furious scorn on well-meaning people, whatever their race or profession, who try to participate but do so with suboptimal skill or sophistication in a given instance. Honest interracial dialogue cannot exist without speech that is wrongheaded, speech that is prejudicial, even speech that is unwittingly racist. If it were otherwise, there would be no need for the dialogue. The race problem would already have been solved.
Conor Friedersdorf, at the Atlantic
There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or “fighting words” those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 1942
The fighting words doctrine has been tested numerous times over the last 70 years, losing power with each new decision.
The weekly Punjabi broadcast of “Hockey Night in Canada,” as venerated an institution for Canadians as “Monday Night Football” is for Americans, is the only N.H.L. game called in a language other than English or French. The broadcast marries Canada’s national pastime with the sounds and flavors of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of ice hockey.
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Any attempt to make the connection between Chechnya and Tsarnaevymi if they are guilty, in vain…They grew up in the United States, their attitudes and beliefs were formed there. It is necessary to seek the roots of evil in America.
Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Chechen Republic via Instagram and Google Translate (from the original Russian).
In conjunction with other conservative groups attacking the “liberal” judiciary and the press, they continued to shore up the movement’s populist credentials by identifying an elite to which conservatives could stand opposed — a task that grew in importance as populist elements within the Republican Party gained even more prominence. They continued to provide a vocabulary for conservative college students (and their parents) to express frustration with their higher education experiences. And they helped to call into question the credibility of academic knowledge, which made the growing number of conservative intellectuals in think tanks working on topics like taxes or energy policy or financial deregulation seem more reliable and trustworthy by comparison.
more, from an excerpt, here.
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Oh, Kareem.
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Reblogged from Baller Shots
‘Full-blown magic realism, like in the Latin American boom of literature of the ’70s and ’80s, is not fashionable anymore, but elements of it are still present in novels all over the world, even in English; think Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison, for example. Magic realism is not a literary trick for me. I accept that the world is a very mysterious place.’ — Isabel Allende
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