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Cross-Cultural Learning
The mission of the South-East Asia Center is to build bridges of understanding and cooperation amongst all Asian people as well as between peoples of Eastern and Western upbringing. We work with native-born Americans and immigrants, promoting mutual understanding and cooperation.
South-East Asia Center joined other community groups, friends and family to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit (for Chinese) and the Cat (for Vietnamese) in the 2023 Argyle Street Lunar Read More …
McCutcheon Elementary School hosted a pop-up Family Resource Event Friday, January 20th to support students in temporary living situations. Families experiencing homelessness were invited to learn about resources needed to Read More …
Eligibility Requirements: The homeowner must have experienced a COVID-19-related hardship after January 21, 2020. The homeowner must be delinquent on mortgage, property taxes, and/or condo association fees. The homeowner must Read More …
Ten candidates competing to replace Harry Osterman as Chicago Alderman for the 48th Ward, which includes parts of the Andersonville, Edgewater and Uptown neighborhoods, gathered to provide their point-of-view regarding Read More …
Two 48th Ward aldermanic candidates Larry Svabek and Roxanne Volkmann joined the Golden Diners Winter Solstice Luncheon December 21,2022 at South-East Asia Center, 5120 N. Broadway, Chicago. Luncheon sponsors were Read More …
Four 48th Ward aldermanic candidates introduced themselves while visiting The Golden Diners Thanksgiving Luncheon at the South-East Asia Center, 5120 N. Broadway, Chicago, November 23,2022. Luncheon sponsors were Tai Nam Read More …
The South-East Asia Center building at 5120 N. Broadway is one of the most architecturally interesting and unusual in the neighborhood with it’s stone detail and rooftop turret. Currently this Read More …
The staff at South-East Asia Center ready to help with applications for the annual low energy assistance program. Click here for details.
Many cultures around the world celebrate the harvest period. Seniors at South-East Asia Center celebrated a Mid-Autumn Festival luncheon on September 9,2022. SEAC Director San O explained that this holiday Read More …
DAYCARE * PRESCHOOL * AFTER-SCHOOL * ALL DAY SUMMER & HOLIDAYS Preparation for College and Life Balanced academics (lessons in science, math + human/social sciences important for life skills, business, Read More …
48th Ward Alderman Harry Osterman, joins Theresa Mah, State Rep from the second district, together with State Rep candidates for the 13th District Hoan Huynh and Eileen Dordek Friday, June Read More …
Most of us have grown up hearing, teaching, and learning to celebrate diversity. This now fashionable conventional wisdom grew out of the rebellious 60’s and early 70’s. We rebels, myself Read More …
We humans have divided ourselves into groups throughout history and around the world. Good start – we could better raise families, hunt, protect from animals, divide responsibilities, specialize, do big Read More …
Ethnic fests may be fun, appetizing, and entertaining. But sharing ethnic foods, music, dance, and costumes breaks few cross-cultural barriers. It creates few jobs, improves few schools, and evaporates few Read More …
A first suggestion is to switch our terminology from multicultural to cross-cultural. The new adjective must go with an action. This action, I call “bridge-building.” Putting two ethnic groups together, Read More …
When we take a big picture rather than focusing on one race, ethnicity, continent, or period of history, we find that deeper down we have common histories. Expanding our everyday Read More …
Holiday celebration can be unifying or inadvertently divisive. We all celebrate holidays for the same reasons. We celebrate spring, harvest, or heroes, for example. On the other hand, celebrating ethnic Read More …
Educators possess prodigious pedagogical tools to teach pure and applied sciences. However, despite our ostensibly best efforts, schools are graduating a mixed bag of good and bad apples. We graduate Read More …
Despite our best efforts, including those of us in the progressive 60’s to 70’s, hippies, teachers, preachers, police, and human rights advocate protesters have obviously still a long way to Read More …