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... of the People. I will directly quote from his mother’s journal written over 70 years ago: “When Oscar was in the second grade he got into a heated argument with his Dad at the dinner table about the treatment of Indians. Paul said something that hurt him. He stopped talking, hung his head. ...

... we were forced not to speak our own language in schools. This has changed I'm very happy to see. Although we dress like mainstream America, eat pizza and yogurt and watch movies who's theme ranges from ancient history to science fiction, we know in our hearts who we are and many of us continue ...

... on the slow, formal speech style. Note that in everyday English people say things like “I wanna do it”, “I’m gonna do it” or “lemme see” and “d’eat?” . Except for some very informal texts (such as teenagers’ texting) you will never see those phrases spelled as they are above. Instead they will ...

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Re: Provocative Opinion piece in New York Times

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