Cross-Cultural Learning
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
Golden Diners enjoyed a Mother’s Day Celebration with remarks from Sergio Mojica, Evan Jones, and Jay Lin. Sergio Mojica is a candidate for Illinois State Rep District 13. Political Director, Read More …
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South-East Asia Center (SEAC) celebrated your birthday, in fact, everyone’s, as is the custom on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. We hosted a special birthday, New Year Read More …
Staff and volunteers from South-East Asia Center participated with other organizations and neighborhood supporters in the 2022 “Year of Tiger” Lunar New Year Parade.
Morning of January 12, 2022 47th Ward Alderman Matt Martin delivered in person 2,000 KN95 masks to our Center for our senior services clients and our child care parents. Pictured Read More …
We welcome the Noristani family fortunate enough to escape the confusion and chaos resulting from the transition of power in war-torn Afghanistan. The family of seven includes father, mother and Read More …
