Posted by on Apr 15, 2008 in Albuquerque, Science & technology | 0 comments

The Duke would be so proud!

Today’s blog post will be a recipe from Mamá‘s Kitchen, just in time for din­ner later on. For now I just wanted to point you in the direc­tion of Duke City Fix. When I started this blog (this last week­end), I wasn’t sure what the state of blog­ging was in our oasis of tech­nol­ogy. Now I...
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Posted by on Apr 14, 2008 in History, Mexico, Self-identity | 1 comment

Señorita Ruth on: Benito Juárez

Señorita Ruth on: Benito Juárez
Tales from the Old Country Every Mon­day I will regale you with sto­ries from the old coun­try, my beloved Mex­ico. This weekly effort was moti­vated by my reflec­tions on the his­tor­i­cal fig­ures I learned about in my short time in the Mex­i­can edu­ca­tional sys­tem. Since com­ing to the...
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Posted by on Apr 13, 2008 in Languages | 1 comment

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 2

Are They Talk­ing About Me? What are the ide­o­log­i­cal impli­ca­tions of choos­ing an offi­cial lan­guage? What kind of under­ly­ing belief sys­tem does it betray? A major marker of cul­ture and iden­tity, lan­guage sep­a­rates worlds of expe­ri­ence. And when it’s not your own,...
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Posted by on Apr 11, 2008 in Languages | 3 comments

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 1

Nations & Lan­guage It’s easy to trace and under­stand the con­nec­tion between the ideas of “one nation” and “one lan­guage.” These sim­ple asso­ci­a­tions have out­lined the lan­guage poli­cies of west­ern Euro­pean coun­tries from the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tury for­ward....
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