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Beware an administration that bellows 'English Only' and 'America First' while decimating education

JL;DR SUMMARY Aviya Kushner reflects on the potential cultural and social impacts of an executive order by President Trump to shut down the U.S. Department of Education and prioritize English as the official national language. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationDepartment Of EducationAmerican PoliticsCultural ExchangeIsolationismNation State LawMultilingualismLanguage PolicyFulbright ProgramJewish Multilingualism

Places mentioned

Iowa, United States
"The University of Iowas International Writing Program, which has brought writers from around the world to campus for decades, is a target worth noticing."
Chicago, Illinois, United States
"In Chicago, I saw information printed in Spanish on restaurant napkins; it was a desperate attempt to get the word out."
Israel
"In 2018, Israels Nation-State Law came under fire in some quarters for elevating Hebrew in a country where each street sign appears in Hebrew, Arabic and English and where Arabs comprise just over 20% of the population."
Turkey
"Orhan Pamuk of Turkey and Mo Yan of China came to Iowas program too."
China
"Orhan Pamuk of Turkey and Mo Yan of China came to Iowas program too."

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