“Citizens want and need more than a fair distribution of resources: they also desire meaningful recognition of their humanity and uniqueness.”
It was awesome that when one person started talking about the need for recognition in Appalachia, then everyone caught on. It is amazing to see that these writers writing about this did bring them some recognition.
Walker wrote back that it created a “solid foundation” that “encouraged a more diverse view of the region and its history” while increasing “opportunities for others to carve out their own space” – including other poets, musicians and visual artists of color throughout the region.
It is amazing that one saying could make all this happen. It deemed to be true that the saying had made the Appalachian community so much more seen, and sought after to help. It also helped with artists being seen that were from that region.
In the 1960s, the Appalachian Regional Commission officially defined the Appalachian region as an area encompassing counties in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and the entirety of West Virginia. The designation brought national attention – and calls for economic equity – to an impoverished region that had largely been ignored.
I think it is interesting how whenever this area was deemed as "Appalachian Region" now people looked at that area. That area needed help before it was deemed that, but since there was a story there, it came up again.
As soon as he began speaking, I started to understand the new in light of the old. Combined with a quiet thoughtfulness, his manner of speaking awakened in me memories that I had long put to rest. In one moment, his voice cracked as he was overcome with emotion remembering the violence enacted upon queer youth in Appalachia. Throats tightened across the room.
Even though everyone has heard so many languages before, they still looked at her oddly because of the way she spoke. Very interesting.
Yet while I was proud of my home, I was also learning that powerful stereotypes about Appalachia had arrived in places like Boston well before me and had influenced the way that even the most considerate people thought about me.
It is so interesting how people were judging her just because she was from Appalachia. But, I admire her for still being proud of it, even when others were hating her.
as if all this wasn’t enough, English got hit by a firehose spray of words from yet more languages
I think this is very interesting because it is so true. English got changed by all the people coming into and out of the country. It was very interesting to see that.
Learning a new language meant listening hard and trying your best.
I can totally understand this, whenever you are in high school and you have to take a language, you are trying to learn it and understand it. You just try your best and figure it out.
There is no other language, for example, that is close enough to English that we can get about half of what people are saying without training and the rest with only modest effort.
I found this sentence very interesting because I think there are other languages that you can pick and find different words in different languages.
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Do elementary and secondary teachers know how to do this? A substantial assumption is that teachers know how to explain this to their students.
This requires much more than any definitions of computer literacy and is a wizard level skill.