I recently facilitated a Diversity & Inclusion training for Alliance Medical Center (AMC) in Healdsburg, California. Healdsburg is a city located in Sonoma County, in California’s Wine Country. Through three primary care clinics Alliance Medical Center supports more than 13,000 families each year, most of whom are from low-income backgrounds, are un-/underinsured, and who would otherwise continue […]
Martin Luther King Jr. has been a major inspiration for our positive, multicultural movement and we are truly grateful. We will continue to celebrate diversity and promote cultural harmony. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to […]
Raising Kids in a Multicultural Relationship I want to share one of my most challenging relationship moments with you. Not because I want to re-live it (believe me I do not!) but because I imagine many of you can relate. (Deep breath…here it goes) Back when my husband I were dating, the conversation came […]
A few weeks ago I was asked to describe myself in one word. Without hesitation I said “whasian,” which is a combination of the words “white + Asian.” I said this because my father is white and my mother is Korean, and I’ve always felt that I’m the exact mix of my very culturally different […]
This beautifully blended woman was featured in the National Geographic magazine on October 2013. Beauty comes in all colors, shades, and hues.
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Researchers at Humboldt State University went through a year of geocoded tweets with specific words. These words were negative and often related to bigoted hate speech. Each tweet was read in context and the positive and neutral comments using the terminology were excluded from the study. This study helped track the use pattern of racial slurs […]
Film, music, and visual arts have all evolved throughout time. If we critically analyze media from a certain time period we can learn a lot about what the culture was like, what they valued, how they treated one another, and what the controversies of the time were. The power of media cannot be denied. The […]
