Winter Solstice Celebration 2024
Winter solstice celebrations have a rich history that spans thousands of years and various cultures around the world. The winter solstice is an astronomical event marking the shortest day and Read More …
Year: 2024
Your Childcare Choices
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 …
Article I – Celebrating Diversity or Celebrating Commonalities
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 …
Article II Zero-sum or Positive-sum: Group vs. Self-pride
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 …
Article III Beyond Tourist Approach to Deeper Understanding
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 …
Article IV Multi-cultural or Cross-cultural Perspectives
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 …
Article V Small-Picture Dangers, Big-Picture Benefits
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 …
Article VI How Religious and Hero Holidays Can Bring Us Together
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 …
Article VII STEM and Cross-cultural Insensitivity. Alternatives
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 …
Article VIII Do Schools Promote Cross-cultural Insensitivity? Alternatives?
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 …
5120 Broadway Building History
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 …
Senior Thanksgiving Luncheon 2024
Local seniors gathered with Alderpersons Leni Mania-Hoppenworth and Matt Martin as well as representatives from the offices of State Senator Simmons and State Rep Kelly Cassidy to enjoy a pre-Thanksgiving Read More …
Golden Diners at South-East Asia Center
The Golden Diners Program offers older adults (60 years of age and older) and their spouses of any age, an opportunity to have a healthy, nutritious meal each day while Read More …
SUMMER FUN Highlights
The theme of the Bridge International School at South-East Asia Center SUMMER FUN PROGRAM was Understanding the World Around You. Some of the ways that participants were introduced to this Read More …
Jewel-Osco Assists SEAC with COVID Shots
South-East Asia Center (SEAC) hosted a vaccine clinic at the end of September that served about 95 community and team members. The number of people coming in for vaccines was Read More …
Coalition for Limited English Speaking Elderly Celebrates 35 Years
In 1989 Peter Porr and San O were co-founders, along with several other leaders of ethnic organizations, who created The Coalition of Limited English Speaking Elderly (CLESE). The founders realized Read More …
SUMMER FUN Research Mini-Class
Volunteer Instructor, Prospect High School Newspaper Associate Editor-in-Chief Peter Radosh helped students use the Internet to research a subject of their choice. Before beginning he discussed with them some best Read More …
Father’s Day Luncheon
Our Golden Diners and senior daycare luncheon celebration of fathers included a delicious hot meal. Several songs were performed by friends and staff sung in Mandarin, Vietnamese and Mongolian. Visits Read More …
Mother’s Day Luncheon Celebration 2024
Community seniors gathered to enjoy a delicious traditional style Chinese meal with chicken, shrimp, bok choy and mushrooms at the South-East Asia Center Golden Diners luncheon on Broadway and Winona. Read More …
Neighborhood Lunar New Year Parade
This year’s 2024 Lunar New Year Parade on Argyle celebrating the Year of the Dragon was fun. The day was sunny and beautiful and the South-East Asia Center was well Read More …