A local is a place were young people can meet. A group of friends rent a commercial space such as a garage or a shop and they can decorate it as they want. You rent that place and you can do whatever you want there. We usually have sofas, TVs, Play Station, computers, fridges, microwaves… It is like a second house for us. There you can smoke or drink or have parties, but usually here people have problems with neighbours because of the noise.
An exchange between bilingual students in Los Angeles and Beasain
What does it mean to be bilingual (or multilingual)? What does it mean to be “bicultural”? Do the two concepts necessarily coincide? What are “language,” “culture,” “race,” “ethnicity” and “nationality”? What is their political significance as well as their importance in our daily lives? How do these concepts sometimes conflict and sometimes overlap?
This project explores these ideas by connecting high school students who live
Two groups of 40 students are participating, who are in their final year of secondary school (12th graders at Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles; 2nd year bachillerato students at the Txindoki branch of BIP (Beasain Institutua Publika) in Beasain. Each student is partnered with a student in the other country. They will write emails to each other over the course of a month. Students will also create projects to educate each other their respective cultures, histories and politics.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A local is a place were young people can meet. A group of friends rent a commercial space such as a garage or a shop and they can decorate it as they want. You rent that place and you can do whatever you want there. We usually have sofas, TVs, Play Station, computers, fridges, microwaves… It is like a second house for us. There you can smoke or drink or have parties, but usually here people have problems with neighbours because of the noise.
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