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Building Bridges of Understanding and Cooperation
The mission of the South-East Asia Center is to build bridges of understanding and cooperation amongst all people. We work with native-born Americans and immigrants, promoting mutual understanding and cooperation.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Highlight video from SEAC Lunar New Year Celebration.
Alderwoman Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth of the 48th Ward joined our seniors to celebrate a special winter solstice luncheon at the South-East Asia Center Golden Diners Program. Attendees with birthdays in December were Read More …
Executive Director, San O acted as master of ceremonies as the South-East Asia Center Golden Diners Club and senior daycare participants gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving and those individuals with November Read More …