Mother Wants Asian Upbringing for Daughter
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Joyce Shui says she will continue to fight to give her younger daughter a multicultural and multilingual education, after an arbitrator ruled that the 5 year old should attend full-day kindergarten, eliminating her Japanese immersion program. Shui, a Chinese American, whose parents grew up in Japanese-ruled China, wants her daughter to be aware of their Japanese and Chinese backgrounds. “We are multilingual. That’s our heritage,” Shui told Northwest Asian Weekly. “We need a judge who understands. The court sees [multilingual education] as ancillary. To me it is not ancillary. To me it is integral to my role as a parent. As an Asian parent, for me this is how I want to raise my daughters.” Shui will continue to pursue the case in court, while her daughter has temporarily withdrawn from Japanese immersion education. 3 Cambodian Americans on Ballot LOWELL, Mass. –– An unprecedented three Cambodian American candidates are on the ballot for the November 8 city election. With the resignation of three-term Councilor Rithy Uong in July –– the first Southeast Asian candidate ever elected in the city –– there has been a remarkable surge in interest in local politics in Lowell’s Cambodian American community. Council candidates Sambath Chey Fennell and Rady Mom likely would not have run had Uong not left the picture, said Victoria Fahlberg, director of ONE Lowell, a Massachusetts immigrant advocacy group. Samkhann Khoeun, a former executive director of the Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association, also considered running but decided to wait. New PSAs to Combat Housing Bias New fair housing public service advertisements in more than 10 Asian languages are running on radio stations and in newspapers across the country. The ads are designed to increase recognition and reporting of housing discrimination among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. “HUD estimates that one in five Asian Americans faces housing discrimination,” said Karen McGill Lawson, director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. “We hope this campaign sends a clear signal to those who discriminate, but more importantly, we want victims of discrimination to know that there is something they can do about it.” More : news.asianweek.com |