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The "Immigrant Experience:" Why We Need to Tell it All.

I had an extremely happy childhood. My parents created a world for me and my brothers that was filled with love, security, and endless moments of play. However, I couldn’t shake the feeling I had that I was an “other.” It was a feeling that would underlie every moment I spent outside of my home. I felt it when I was in school, when I played with my friends, when I went to the grocery store with my Mom. This feeling carried on with me throughout my teenhood. By then, I had figured it out; I was different. I was different because I was a person of color. I was different because I was an immigrant. I was different because my parents spoke broken English.

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When my school announced that we were going online for the rest of the semester, I was back home in Chicago for spring break. Within a 48-hour period, I flew back to New York, packed up everything I owned, rushed to say goodbye to my friends and classmates, and bid farewell to the school that had been my home for the past four years. When I came back home, I was reeling from all of the unprocessed change and emotions.

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(THE IMMIGRANTLY PODCAST) I Am Jewish and a Person of Color | Blog | Visit Now.

I grew up in Staten Island, New York, and as such, I already had a relatively skewed vision of religion in American society: it wasn’t until I was in high school that I learned the United States was predominantly Protestant, since a majority of my classmates and neighbors growing up were Catholic, and I had many classmates and even members of my own family who were Muslim, Hindu, Orthodox, and atheist. There were so many different people of so many different backgrounds that I had met in my fourteen years that I never really saw a correlation between race, ethnicity and religion.

So when I was fourteen years old and another Jewish person told me this at school, I was pretty shocked. At that point, I had attended Hebrew school, I went to synagogue for most holidays, I knew how to write in Hebrew, and my family said the prayers and lit candles every weekend--If that didn’t make me Jewish, what did? I wasn’t really offended or hurt at the time, but when I told one of my favorite teachers a number of years later, he looked disappointed and assured me, “It wasn’t right for him to say that to you.

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Immigrantly's Novel Recommendations | Latest Novels | 2021 | Visit Now.

During this period of social distancing, many of us are picking up new hobbies and revisiting some old ones. I have always loved to read, so I’ve decided to visit some novels sitting on my shelves and share some of my personal recommendations with you today. Here are ten books worth reading if you find yourself looking for something new.

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A Bit of History of Immigration in the U.S. | THE IMMIGRANTLY PODCAST \ 2021 \ Visit Now.

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Most people who contact us are caring for a loved one who is confined to a bed or chair. Many of these limited mobility people have developed a pressure sore(s). Not only do they have a pressure sore problem, they are also incontinent.

What can be done to help a person in these circumstances? The goal of any action should be to create an environment that stops a pressure sore from developing and fosters the healing of the pressure sore.

If a pressure sore area is near the tail-bone, diapers are recommended. Diapers will reduce some of the benefits of wool; but are necessary in most circumstances. An Incontinence Disposable Bed Pad, also known as a " blue pad ", should be used to protect the mattress- these are usually placed under the wool pad.

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My mother and I have made chicken fajitas every Christmas Eve since I was seven or eight years old. When I was little, my mother and I used to make fajitas using a seasoning you could buy at the store, but as I got older and more adventurous with cooking, I suggested we make fajitas using our own seasoning.

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In Latin American cultures, there are basically two things which take importance above all else: family and food. It doesn’t matter whether you’re Puerto Rican, Peruvian, or Mexican: those are constants.

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Mexican Tostadas Recipe \ Visit Now.

Another Mexican dish my mother and I make every Christmas Eve and certainly many other days of the year is tostadas. They’re so simple, anyone can make them. They only take ten minutes and after you’ve had a homemade tostada, you’ll never want a store-bought tostada again.

As a child, I would eat tostadas covered in only Mexican sour cream (crema mexicana) and queso fresco, but I’m happy to say that my food horizons have expanded since then and I now eat my tostadas with the works: beans, cream, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and salsa. You can also put avocado, guacamole, chicken--if it sounds good, go for it (and if it’s not so good, you’ve only ruined one tostada).

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Thank you so much for 1k (now 1.3k!) followers on Instagram! To celebrate, we are having a TOTE BAG GIVEAWAY! 🎉🎉🎉 We will have five winners and each will receive the first of our new tote bags, designed by the incredibly talented @lenagmitchell, who also designed our logo!

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Rice may be one of my favorite foods ever. It’s so simple and easy to make and so much can be done with it, which is probably one reason why so many cultures around the world have rice as a key ingredient or dish.

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Understanding Refugees in the Age of COVID-19

We are living through times where many, if not all, our previously held notions of ‘normal’ have been challenged.  More than a hundred thousand dead just in the US, highest levels of unemployment in almost 90 years with projections that 42% of all coronavirus job losses will be permanent.  

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Just as tortillas and beans have become reminders of a happy childhood spent at home during rainy or snowy days for Cassandra Clifford, food has always been more than mere sustenance for me and my family. To us, food is synonymous with family gatherings and all the other types of get-togethers that showcases delicacies, which carry eons worth of culture, tradition and history.

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How Do I Measure My Identity?

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“Hi, is this Chandan?” I said his name the way I had heard it pronounced before-- Chun-dun. I waited a while for a response and then heard from the other end of the line “sorry I took so long to respond, I’m not used to people pronouncing my name the way it’s supposed to be pronounced.”

https://immigrantlypod.com/blog/south-asians-for-change-as-tiktok-influencers-chandan-bukkapatnam

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