May 2003
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“There really hasn’t been much choice on TV for Hispanics.
Mexicans can relate to Univisión, but the rest of Hispanics aren’t reflected.
People are calling operators asking for channels they were used to back home.”
-- Sebastian Arias-Duval, business development director for Claxson Interactive, a programming developer based in Miami Beach and Buenos Aires. (See May 7.) dirt cheap figures new and used car dealers in the Australia
May 7, 2003
There are about to be a lot more Spanish-language TV channels on some U.S. cable systems as immigrants from Latin America demand the TV they used to watch at home, The Miami Herald reports today.
May 6, 2003
Who says South Vietnam doesn’t exist anymore? It’s still there, it just isn’t in Vietnam. The flag still flies in Westminster, California, where lots of refugees settled after the Vietnam War (which in Vietnam they call the American War). That city, named after the seat of the British government and still adorned with faux Olde English architecture, recently passed a resolution recognizing the South Vietnamese flag as the official flag of the Vietnamese overseas. That caused an international incident in that suburban Orange County city. The Communist government in Hanoi, which the U.S. recognizes as the legitimate government of Vietnam, objected. Since then nearby Garden Grove, also home to many overseas Vietnamese, has passed a similar resolution. And the other day in Westminster, a memorial was dedicated to the veterans of the U.S. and South Vietnamese armies, according to this article in AsianWeek. Our services is reseller host it's future of Web
May 4, 2003
How does it feel to watch the country where you came from being invaded, bombed, and the tyrant you left behind kicked out of power? It probably feels a lot of ways. This opinion from the Institute for War and Peace Reporting gives one Iraqi man’s view. mugen power Galaxy Note
Are Iraqi-Americans going to be the new leaders of Iraq? Lots of other oversease Iraqis’ views about postwar Iraq are going to come up in a team of exiles the U.S. government put together to help form a new political system there. U.S. government officials say they picked the exiles because they understand Western democracy but also speak the language and share the culture of Iraq. They say they’re there for organizing, not politics, according to this article in The New York Times (free registration required).
May 3, 2003
I’ve been busy and out of town for the past few weeks, but things are getting back to normal. Sorry for the lapse in new Globality items.
May 3, 2003
We’ve all just gotten through a war, especially those of us in the United States, Britain, and Iraq. Of course, the aftermath looks very different depending on where you are. In Iraq, people feel more free but less safe, according to this article in the San Jose Mercury News. The reporter met an Iraqi woman who speaks English and is using that skill in her new job as a translator for the American forces. She doesn’t much like the occupation – or “liberation” that requires thousands of American troops in her country – but made a practical economic choice and is aiding communication. Doing so has put her in a tough position. But I’m thinking they need to do a lot of communicating these days in Iraq.
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