Photos and description of all the six-week program in New York, USA - 2013

1. MIAS 2013
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
By: Jaime Ancajima Alama

2. MIAS 2013 FELLOWS
• AUSTRALIA
Rachel Stevens
Department of History, Monash University
• BANGLADESH
Sadaf Islam
University of Chittagong
• BURMA
Sandar Win
University of Mandalay
• COLOMBIA
Patricia Serrano Esguerra
Chancellery of Universidad del Rosario
• COTE D'IVOIRE
Kouame Sayni
Universite Felix Houphouet Boigny
• CZECH REPUBLIC
Mario Kubas
University of Economics
• YEMEN
Hassan Al-Eryani
Sana'a University
• MONGOLIA
Bolormaa Batsuuri
Mongolian State University of Education
. PERU
Jaime Ancajima Alama
Universidad Privada de Piura
- PORTUGAL
Jose Da Costa Picas do Vale
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- RUSSIA
Olga Gavrilenko
Far Eastern Federal University
- SOUTH AFRICA
Takalani Mashau
University of Venda
- TOGO
Bawa Kammampoal
University of Kara
- URUGUAY
Daniela Garino Traverso Artigas
Teacher Education and Development College
- VIETNAM
Cam Cao
Tra Vinh University
- WEST BANK
Khaled Shanaa
Palestine Ahliya University College

3. NYU STAFF
Philip M. Hosay, Director
Professor of International Education at
New York University.
Anna Hillary, Program Intern
Grace Pai, Program Officer
Ashleigh White, Program Officer
Alexandra Wood, Administrative Director

4. NEW YORK: City of Immigrants,
Diversity, Tolerance and Freedom
THE BEGINNING
Jaime, Olga, Mario, Sayni, Bawa, Sandar, Takalani, Cam, Daniela, Rachel,
Bolorma, Sadaf, Hassan, Khaled, Jose, Patricia

5. NYU Staff:
Anne, Ali, Phil, Grace and Ashleigh

6. I- Panel Discussions

7. Panel Disccussion Topics
1- Urban design and community planning
2- Reconciliation of diversity with National Unity
3- Communities in early America
4- The search for community in the American
Imagination
5- Poverty in America: Social responsibility and
individual self-reliance
6- Constitutional Basis for individual rights in
America

8. Panel Disccussion Topics
1- Urban design and community planning
-An apartment in NY: $ 1’000,000
- NYU has more than 100 buildings
-NYU has over 40,000 students
5- Poverty in America
-There are over 40,000 homeless in NY

9. Panel Disccussion Topics
7- Religious liberty
Catholic Church – Jewish -Muslim Estimate- American Baptist Churches
in the USA - Episcopal Church- United Methodist Church- Reformed
Church in America- Presbyterian Church (USA)- International Churches
of Christ- Seventh-Day Adventist Church - Armenian Apostolic
Church/Catholicossate Etchmiadzin - Assemblies of God- Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America- Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America - United Church of Christ - Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA
- LDS (Mormon) Church - Unitarian Universalist Association-
Presbyterian Church in America - Southern Baptist Convention -
Lutheran Church- Baha'i- Christian and Missionary Alliance- Armenian
Apostolic Church/Catholicossate of Cilicia - Moravian Church in America-
Churches of Christ

10. Panel Disccussion Topics
9- Individualism
-Individualism and self-reliance are valued traits in American
life.
-People are encouraged to make most personal, career, and
educational decisions independently.
-Adult children are free to make decisions that directly go
against the advice of their parents.
-From a very early age, children are encouraged to be self-
sufficient.
- Many Americans tend to be outgoing and are willing to
assist international students, sometimes offering hospitality
in their homes or loaning items which might be useful.

11. Panel Disccussion Topics
12- Immigration and cultural conflict
-A little more than four million immigrants live in
New York State and three million live in New York City.
- There are 645,000 illegal immigrants in the state of New
York, and there are 535,000 illegal immigrants in New York
City alone.
- Illegal immigrants: 27% come from Mexico and
Central America, 23% from South Asia and East Asia, 22%
from the Caribbean, 13% from South America, 8% from
Europe, 5% from Africa, and 2% from the Middle East.

12. Panel Disccussion Topics
12- Immigration and cultural
conflict: Occupations of Illegal
Immigrants:
Dishwashers
Sewing machine operators
Painters, construction &
maintenance
Cooks
Construction laborers
Food preparation workers
Waitress & waitresses
Maids & housekeeping cleaners
Automotive service technicians &
mechanics
Carpenters
Taxi drivers & chauffeurs
Stock clerks & order fillers
Janitors & building cleaners
Laborers & freight, stock &
material movers
Driver/sales workers & truck
drivers
Cashiers
Retail salespersons
Child care workers
Office clerks, general
First-line supervisors of retail
sales workers

13. Panel Disccussion Topics
14- The ethnic community
15- The black migration from farm to city.
16- Ethnicity, race, gender, and class in American
politics
17- Ethnicity and assimilation on the American
frontier
18- The democratic process and national unity

14. Panel Disccussion Topics
14- The ethnic community
2006-2008 American Community Survey for the
U.S. Census:
White 44.6%
Hispanic or Latino (Of Any Race) 27.5%
Black or African American 25.1%
Asian 11.8%
American Indian 0.4%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 0.1%
Other races 16%

15. Panel Disccussion Topics
14- The ethnic community
According to the 2006-2007 Center for Latin
American, Caribbean & Latino Studies:
Puerto Rican: (778,628)
Dominican: (602,093)
Mexican: (289,755)
Ecuadorian: (201,708)
Colombian: (113,469)
Other Hispanic or Latino: (351,635)

16. Panel Disccussion Topics
14- The ethnic community
-The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African
Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the
Northeast, Midwest, and West for most of the 20th century.
-a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), in which 5 million
or more people moved, including many to California and
other western cities.
Between 1910 and 1970, blacks moved from 14 states of the
South, especially Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and
Texas to the other 3 cultural regions of the United
States.

17. Panel Disccussion Topics
14- The ethnic community
- By the end of the Second Great Migration, African
Americans had become an urbanized population.
- More than 80 percent lived in cities. A majority of
53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent
lived in the North and 7 percent in the West

18. Panel Discussions
21- Mass culture, the media, and American politics
22- The rise of the middle class and suburbanization
21- Interest group politics and the national interest
24- American media and film
25- The American family: Shifting ethnic, racial and
gender identities.

19. Panel Disccussion Topics
26- Postmodernism in America
27- American art and identity
28- Diversity and experimentation in American
music
29- American National Identity and
Transnationalism
30- Education and the American character
31-American popular culture and consumerism

20. Walking Tours

21. 1- Mid-Town Manhattan –
By Carol Krinsky –
NYU Professor

22. 1- Mid-Town Manhattan –
By Carol Krinsky –
NYU Professor

23. 2- New England, Old Boston and
Freedom Trail –
By Donald Johnson – NYU Professor Emeritus

24. 2- New England, Old Boston and
Freedom Trail –
By Donald Johnson – NYU Professor Emeritus

25. 3- Elmhurst-Corona, Queens-
By Kamau Ware –
Photographer and community educator

26. 3- Elmhurst-Corona, Queens-
By Kamau Ware –
Photographer and community educator

27. 4- China Town: The Chung Pak Day
Care Center.

28. 4- China Town

29. 5- Harlem: Schomburg Center for
Black Culture

30. 5- The Abyssinian Baptist Church.

31. 6- New Mexico: Santa Fe and Acoma
and Alburqueque.

32. 6- New Mexico: Santa Fe and Acoma
and Alburqueque.

33. 7- Washington DC

34. 7- Washington DC

35. Cities Visited
New York
Boston
Cambridge
New Hampshire
Lowell
Deering
New Mexico: Santa Fe and Tamayo
Washingtown DC
Etc.

36. Museums and others
The Civil War and American Art

37. Museums and others
The Rockefeller Plaza

38. Museums and others
The Rockefeller Plaza

39. Museums and others
The 9/11 memorial

40. Museums and others
Museum of Chinese in America

41. Museums and others
Schomburg Center

42. Museums and others
Louis Armstrong’s House

43. Museums and others
The Moving Image Museum

44. Museums and others
Sky Cultural Center

45. Museums and others
Boott Cotton Mills

46. Museums and others
The Fourth of July

47. Museums and others
The White House

48. Museums and others
The washingtom Memorial

49. Museums and others
World War II Memorial

50. Museums and others
The Capitol

51. Museums and others
The Julliard School

52. Museums and others
The MOMA

53. Museums and others
Museum of Brooklyn

54. Museums and others
The Statue of Liberty

55. Churches Visited

56. Santa Fe: The Cathedral Basilica of
St. Francis of Assisi

57. Santa Fe: Loreto Chapel

58. Santa Fe: San Miguel Church

59. I
Acoma: San Esteban del Rey

60. In China Town

61. Harlem: Abyssinian Baptist Church

62. Theater: The Nance

63. Opera: The wedding of the
Figaro

64. Musical: Kinky boots

65. Parks

66. Subways

67. Streets

68. Restaurants: Chinese

69. Restaurants: Soul Food

70. Restaurants: Indian Food

71. Travelling:
Bus, train subway, plane, van, car

72. Beautiful Moments
Dancing
Meeting people

73. Beautiful Moments
Playing baseball
Watching baseball

74. Beautiful Moments
Fireworks
Movie at the Park

75. Beautiful Moments
Rio Grande Lounge
The pool

76. Beautiful Moments
Patty’s and Jaime’s
Birthday
Eating at
Don’s
place

77. Beautiful Moments
Dinner at Grace’s place
Photo session

78. Beautiful Moments
BBQ at Phil’s
daughter’s house
Department of
State

79. Beautiful Moments
Dinner at Phil’s
apartment
Peruvian QUINUA

80. Beautiful Moments

81. The End
At Washington Square Park

82. The End
At the Palladium