Loca Lingo Multicultural

Patriote pour certains, traître pour les autres, arabe extrémiste délinquant immigré pour Mr. tout le monde, un petit groupe francophile musulman désorganisé pour politiques en veille électorale.
Telle est la triste histoire actuelle du Harki - un apatride condamné et discriminé (exemple).

Qu’est-ce qu’un Harki ?
Quelle est la différence (physique, linguistique,…) entre un Harki et un Algérien ?

Aucune.

Tous deux viennent de la même contrée, ont des ancêtres en commun, sont musulmans, sont génétiquement les mêmes, ont leurs histoires inscrite sur cette terre d’Algérie. Comme vous le verrez plus bas, cette distinction est purement “politique” (pour plus d’infos, ici et ici).

1830, l’Algérie devient colonie française.
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Cantonese lyrics / English subtitles (by “Jin” / “Learn Chinese”). Read the lyrics, and you’ll understand why I believe this song is of interest. Bear in mind it is a “rap” song.

An ABC is a person of Chinese ethnic descent, born in the US - second generation or later ones. They usually are the best integrated “ethnic chinese” within the USAmerican society (which sounds quite logic).

They do not especially live in Chinatowns (which is a bit of a cliché), but sometimes in more affluent suburbs (depending on the level of income and education).

It is interesting to note “Chinese” (as a visible identity) in Canada, mix the least with other ethnicities (numbers including CBC (Canadian Born Chinese)). The degree of integration depends as well on how populated and concentrated “Chinese” communities are (usually on the coast, groups are stronger than the ones in mainland US where they tend to blend more within the local USAmerican society).
So it goes with the Chinese language… ABC / CBC do not especially speak Chinese, sometimes they could express themselves within their (grand)parent’s local dialects, but could not read or write it. Please note that Jin sings in Cantonese which is a Guangzhou - Hong-Kong dialect.
official website, ABC-Jin

… but could you find out the locations hereunder (some are pretty tough, but I am sure you’ll grasp the main theme of this quiz) ?

1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5

Any suggestions, please carry on… fairly abuse from the comment form

Other international quizzes ?

The new centre for research and dialogue between the West and the Muslim world, will seek to fight extremist-linked images of the Arab world. This is pretty much needed right now… don’t you think ?

Whatever our media strongly hammers us with (or “implies”) :

Moderate Muslims and moderate imams do exist.
Open-minded Muslims and open-minded imams do exist.
Muslim women not wearing chador do exist.
Muslims not praying 5 times a day do exist.
Muslims drinking alcohol and eating non-Hallal food do exist as well.
All Muslims respecting the Koran (drinking no alcohol, wearing the chador, respecting Ramadan rules…) are not especially brainwashed extremists ready to blast themselves on a petrol tanker.
Muslim husbands do not especially beat their wives, and do not especially hate jews or the western world.
Islam is not one united religion ; it does contain lots of smaller groups (a bit like Christians, Protestants, Orthodox,…) which contains lots of subgroups too.
“Arabs” does not constitute one united country.
Non-Muslims who are open-minded and respect Islam’s religion do exist.

(I can only agree with the message of this independent organisation (not related to the “Arab Centre”), which I have just discovered now & do not know much about)
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La région du Caucase, celle où l’on recense plus ou moins 80 langues différentes pour une population de 10 millions d’habitants (comme la Belgique) ; l’une des concentrations culturelles les plus riches de la planète, véritable carrefour entre l’Asie et l’Europe où communautés russophones, persanophones et turcophones se mêlent, et se divisent en une multitude de sous-groupes.

Derrière ce podcast de Radio Campus, la Radio de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, on trouve une vision très bien documentée de cette région, ainsi qu’un indice de politiques nationales en Russie. L’invitée est Aude Merlin, Doctorante à l’IEP Paris, qui a défendu il y a peu sa thèse sur “les mobilisations identitaires et recompositions post-soviétiques : le cas du Caucase du Nord*”. Je vous invite à l’écouter. Ci-dessous, reprenant cette source, se retrouve une interprétation personnelle (et non un résumé fidèle de ce podcast) en rapport avec l’identité culturelle ; thème très cher à LocaLingo.com… “conclusions are yours”. Read the rest of this entry »