Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Immigration Story

Based on TED video, My Immigration Story, Tan Le



Vocabulary

It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene — and not just okay, but something to be thankful for. … Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.” (Tan Le)

to endure
oblivious
to bypass
inflexible
enmeshed
relentless
catapulted
marginalized
disenfranchised
hunches
thwarted
entitlement

This video contains a lot of valuable lessons for students. It is a great teaching material about personal/emotional endurance, presumptions, determination, tribulations, and gaining success despite various upheavals.

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