Morning Links: Buffalo-Wing Boycott, Nashville’s English-Only Measure and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.23.09 | 8:18 AM ET
- Nashville votes no and nyet and nein to English-only ballot measure.
- Video: Spending Time With Poster Boy, a street artist who prowls the New York City subway system.
- Even the U.S. Marines are avoiding Tijuana these days.
- A different take on Mexico: How U.S. media perpetuates cliches about the country.
- An exhibition of Robert Frank’s The Americans recently opened at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Slate has a slideshow.
- Aboard the slow train through Senegal.
- Aboard the other bullet trains of Asia.
- Are high-end adventure outfitters rising “above the global financial crisis and recession”?
- Buffalo-wing lovers in Buffalo, New York, call for a Buffalo-wing boycott on Monday. It could get worse: Supplies are so low and prices so high for wings that there may be a shortage on Super Bowl Sunday. What will we ever do, particularly with all the accompanying blue-cheese dip?
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Ling 01.23.09 | 10:23 AM ET
About the Nashville vote, I don’t think it means that white Southerers are suddenly giving up bigotry. Just means, I think, that the population is getting less white and more multi-racial.
Michael Yessis 01.23.09 | 10:33 AM ET
The story I linked to touched on that, Ling: “Overall, the ‘one country, one language’ sentiment pushed by Crafton to galvanize voters didn’t resonate because Nashville is becoming cosmopolitan and comfortable with its diversity…”
Good news all around.
Eva Holland 01.23.09 | 11:11 AM ET
Wow. I hadn’t heard about these “English-only” movements. I bet I know the answer, but just in case—is there any chance the politicians pushing these amendments are willing to pony up the cash/programs/infrastructure to help immigrants and refugees learn said English? Or are they just supposed to magically “assimilate” on their own dime?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Sigh. Glad it’s been defeated!
TambourineMan 01.23.09 | 3:13 PM ET
Super Bowl wing shortage?! The horror…the horror.
Well, Mike, guess you’ll just have to make do with your old Super Bowl standby:
http://www.junkfoodblog.com/uploaded_images/nascar-frozen-burgers-709927.jpg
Save one for me.
Tim L. 01.24.09 | 1:27 AM ET
I live in Nashville and am happy to see that so many of my neighbors made up a record turnout on this silly referendum. As the article noted, it was a giant waste of money and as the alternative weekly here noted, that amount would have paid for a whole lot of English classes for immigrants.
And thanks Michael for the shout-out on Perceptive Travel’s third birthday!