Dutch apologise for Indonesian executions

Formal apology for colonial era mass killings comes ahead of state visit by the Dutch prime minister to Jakarta.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

People from the Netherlands (Dutch) claim to be among the happiest people in the world (page 23). This is how happy people behave? Invade another country and massacre people?

 

Or, the Dutch were not happy in 1949? (highest period of European racism)?

 

@getgln

See on www.aljazeera.com

Lessons Learned: Immigration – Latino USA

Maria Hinojosa takes us through the lessons Latino USA has learned in twenty years of covering issues related to immigration.   Photo courtesy Flickr  …

 

Community Village‘s insight:

Maria Hinojosa explains that the term “undocumented” should be replaced with RPI “Registered Provisional Immigrant

 

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See on latinousa.org

Stuff White People Probably Shouldn’t Say

“Here are some things White Americans say that seem odd, offensive, arrogant, ignorant and so on.

Commenters can offer their own opinions and examples.”

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

illegal – no human is illegal

 

alien – dated and dehumanizing

 

undocumented – dated. Instead use RPI “Registered Provisional Immigrant”

 

Hispanic – Proceeded with caution. Most “Hispanics” prefer “Latino”; unless they have no European heritage. For example, indigenous Mexicans, indigenous Central Americans and indigenous South Americans are not Latino; in which case one could use Hispanic – but the word Hispanic ignores their indigenous identity to the Americas; in which case you can use American Native or the scientific term Amerindian.

 

Colored – dated. should be “People of Color”, not “colored people”

 

@getgln

See on abagond.wordpress.com

Migration is Beautiful

Migration is Beautiful symbolizes a commitment from the creative community to see, show, and celebrate the humanity of the migrant story. See on migrationisbeautiful.com

“Fences and borders can’t stop the flow of rivers, migration of butterflies, or the movement of people, and won’t stop the spirit of freedom.”
– Tania Willard, Indigenous Secwepemc artist