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My 'Oriental' Father: On The Words We Use To Describe Ourselves
Edit National Public Radio 25 May 2016
i. Angie Wang for NPR. Angie Wang for NPR. My dad, who came to the U.S. in 1969 from Hong Kong, who speaks English-lilted-with-Taishanese, who has lived in Connecticut for two-thirds of his life — three times the length of his time in Asia — still uses the word "Oriental.". It's always a casual reference. "This place used to be a Oriental restaurant," he'll say, as we drive by a boarded-up storefront that once was a Chinese take-out joint....
New York State Tax Department Provides Assistance to 42,000 Taxpayers in Nearly 80 Non-English Languages (New York State Department of Taxation and Finance)
Edit noodls 08 Jul 2014
(Source. New York State Department of Taxation and Finance). For immediate release. July 7, 2014. Contact. Geoffrey Gloak. geoffrey.gloak@tax.ny.gov. (518) 457-7377 ... The Tax Department launched the Language Access Program in October 2012 ... Included in the latter category were dozens of regional languages such as Bambara (Mali), Tigrinya (Ethiopia) and Taishanese (China). ... Mattox ... distributed by ... (noodl. 23764713) ....
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