Maria Renteria completed an 8-week internship with Go Global NC. She created an Arabic Profile that assessed the Arabic language’s cultural and economic relevance to the state.
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Maria Renteria completed an 8-week internship with Go Global NC. She created an Arabic Profile that assessed the Arabic language’s cultural and economic relevance to the state.
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Great job, Maria!
Thank you, Colleen!
Interesting research, Maria. Any ideas on strategies for more accurate basic demographic descriptors?
Thank you, Ava! First, it’s important to think of what we consider to be “accurate.” Personally, I believe that means that people are represented as they see themselves. Therefore, I think a great place to start would be to try to adopt the demographic descriptors that people use to refer to themselves. It is problematic to try to fit people into neatly divided boxes not even created by them.
Fascinating stuff, Maria! The difficulty of gaining accurate info on MENA populations is a really interesting challenge – especially with the varying ways they self-report on the census / other demographic surveys (for example, whether they mark ‘white’, ‘other’, ‘mixed race’, etc). I’d also be really curious about generational trends in regards to Arabic-speaking communities in N.C. – whether older communities of Palestinian or Lebanese immigrants from the early twentieth century passed on their language to their children, and what portion of their descendants remain bilingual, compared to more current waves of immigrants.
That’s very interesting, Maria!
I really appreciate your research as an Arabic speaker myself.
I’ve noticed that it’s extremely hard accessing info on MENA populations not just in NC, but in the entire country and it’s very significant that you brought that up.
Hopefully, more research will look into that.
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