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Contributions by Asian Americans Through History – Not Widely Known or Published

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage May 3, 2023March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

May is Asian American Pacific Islanders Heritage Month Contributions from Asian Americans throughout history are not widely known or published or made to our textbooks. We want to take time to honor these unsung heroes who made such remarkable contributions to our lives. This is a reprinted article from the History website. Originally published on …

Exploring Chinese-American Identity

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage, Partners July 10, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Do you know the difference between Chinese and Chinese-Americans? Maybe you even wonder is there a difference?

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage May 6, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Honoring all the Asian Pacific Americans who help make America a diverse and great nation, I am posting information from another website which tells you everything you need to know about the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month recognizes and celebrates the culture, contributions, and heritage of Asian Americans and …

Anti-Violence Against Asian American Resources

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage, Resources March 18, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

The recent incidences against Asian Americans have prompted us to provide a resource page for all those affected by it. We want you to know that we are standing in solidarity with our Asian American brothers and sisters across the nation. Please help pass this information resource page around so people will know where to …

If the Eye is the Window to Our Soul, Culture is the Window to Our Mind

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage February 14, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

If the eye is the window to our soul, culture is the window to our mind. I say that not without evidence. After teaching Chinese for almost ten years at this great organization and other institutions, I often get amused and enlightened by my students’ questions. On a Saturday morning in a private Chinese class, …

Why Cultural Awareness is the Cornerstone of Our Teaching?

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage, Learning February 2, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Knowing each vocabulary word doesn’t mean you always know what each Chinese expression means. Perhaps this expression goes back to the feudalistic foundation of Chinese culture that big families are the common characteristic, so “big family” is equivalent to calling everybody. We can make a further inference from this expression.

A Chinese Poem To Share Alongside Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb”

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Culture & Heritage January 26, 2021March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb” brought me back to my childhood’s favorite poem of a Chinese poet,He Zhizhang from the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) Coincidentally, a lot of poetry written in the Tang Dynasty was about the state of affairs at the time. This one particularly brought me nostalgia, especially when I went …

It’s 2021!

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Health & Wellness January 14, 2021March 18, 2024No Comments

It is very easy for our nervous system to be disrupted because we have gone through a lot in 2020 with the pandemic. I’ve heard of increased cases of anxiety, depression and other mental disorders. This is where I can put my training as a yoga teacher and yoga therapist student into good use.

Being Grounded for the Holiday and how to stay resilient during these unprecedented times

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Health & Wellness December 21, 2020March 18, 2024No Comments

I would like to offer you some tools to be resilient whether you have lost your job or feel stuck at where you are. This is the time that we can turn inward and build our own reserve.

Do You Need to Hit Your Reset Button?

by Jeannie SalomonAll Posts, Health & Wellness October 26, 2020March 18, 2024Comments are Disabled

The pandemic has been here longer than anyone has expected. You might think by now we are used to being isolated in our home, wearing masks, setting a routine with whatever we have adjusted our lives to. Right? Not really. In a way, we will never get used to this new “normal” because part of …