Freedom, as it has historically been understood in the English-speaking world, includes as fundamental assumptions a cultural norm of individualism and a government that does not attempt to assume the ...

This summer, I visited New York City for the first time. As a former resident of the Big Apple, my father was my designated tour guide. He immigrated from Algeria to the United States in 1995, when he ...

Theater Wit, in collaboration with the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern and Northlight Theatre, will host CityTalk: A Series of Conversations on Assimilation, Antisemitism and ...

New information about the United States' long-documented history of atrocities against Native Americans continues to emerge to this day, as was recently the case in Colorado, where a new investigative ...

A group of U.N. experts said Monday they were alarmed by China's years-long policy of "forced assimilation," which has sent nearly 1 million Tibetan minority children to boarding schools for ...

Ever since I moved to the U.S., many people have told me that I have an accent. A girl in my fifth-grade math class said “You sound weird.” My AP English teacher asked me “You are not from here, right ...

A fascinating look at key aspects of visual culture in modern Jewish history In modern western history, the cultural and social developments of modernism have long been associated with Jews. Usually ...

Acculturation is a key concept in understanding how cultural context shapes individuals and communities. Berry (1997) describes acculturation as the process of cultural and psychological change that ...