Multicultural

Join our community to share meals and practice languages with fellow learners in your city — after work at 6 pm — Find a language exchange group that’s more than just chatting online — Inter-Meal Exchange brings learners together over food and friendship. Are you tired of practising your language skills alone? Do you want to meet new people and try fresh foods in your city? …

Ethnolink, Australia’s leading multicultural communications agency, recently hosted CULTURELINK 2023, a groundbreaking multicultural communications summit, in Canberra and Sydney. Attended by over 170 professionals across Government, community and private sectors, the events provided a vibrant platform for like-minded individuals to learn, network, and gain insights into the best practices for…

“I see and understand the world through people,” says portrait artist Oluwatobi Adewumi. “Their faces, expressions, and gazes allow me to represent the often overlooked faces of Black African immigrants across the diaspora.” Raised in Nigeria, Oluwatobi — who goes by Tobi — moved to the States in 2016 for…

Throughout my career, I defined myself by the success of others. I earned my living helping people and organizations tell their stories, define their brands, and promote themselves. Yet, when it came time to “brand” myself, I struggled to think of a word or a phrase that defines the real…

I recently came across the Red Dress project on BBC’s website while looking up information about Native American quilts for a lesson plan. It was a monumental project that transcended cultures and boundaries. The result is a a stunning silk red dress adorned with thousands of colorful stitches and patterns…

In my last post, I talked about my goal of nurturing my voice this year. I don’t mean changing the way I speak. Although I used to wish I had a different voiceprint. (Mostly derived from the feelings of not being “American” enough. But that is for another post). What…

After years of needing to assimilate for survival, I’ve decided to highlight, underline and embolden my difference. Those of you who know me, know that I moved to the United States at a relatively young age. Playbooks on “how to live in America” didn’t exist. …

There is this type of Mexican that people don’t talk about much. These are the Mexicans who grew up on the Mexican side of the border, and later on moved to the United States, fully bilingual and educated, with a college degree. These Mexicans fully integrated into the United States…

A Beautiful Name…… Little did my parents know, when naming me Suhaima that I will find out later in my life, that this name also means little arrow. They were happy to give me this purely Arabic name, following the hadith of our Prophet Muhammad SAW, which means: give your…