https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv Summaries by 2.a en-us 2017-05-04 17:55:15 UTC 2017-05-04 18:00:47 UTC hello@padlet.com kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170015624 2017-05-04 17:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170015624 kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016064 Jamal & Vanessa

The Writer:
Andrea Levy is an english writer with Jamaican roots. She is born in 1956 and she mostly writes stories about immigrant identity and multiculturalism.

The story:
The story is about Andrea Levy, whos parents are immigrants from Jamaica. Even though she is born and raised in England, she does not feel english. People look at her differently, it is different for people in her family to get jobs, because they are colored and even her classmates looks at her as an immigrant. She feels ashamed of her Jamaican herritage and she does not want to sheer, when Jamaica wins anything; she just wants to fit in. Her parents did everything to fit in, and it was easier for them when they saw what "an awful place" Jamaica has turned into. They dont even want to go back.  She began to accept herself when she talked to relatives and found out, that many of her ancestors were white, and that many of them weren't even from Jamaica. When she grew older, she learned to accept her herritage and she figured out how to look Jamaican but act like the Englishman she feels like. She loves tea, she sheers for the english teams and she watches english shows on television. She is english, and it is her birthright to feel like it. She now understands that to be british is not to be white.]]> 2017-05-04 17:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016064 kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016214
Short about the writer: Tariq Ramadan was born in Geneva, Switzerland to an Egyptian Muslim family in 1962. He holds a Ph.D in Arabic and Islamic studies.

You can't go home again:
The text is an article from Time magazine, it's from 24th of december 2001.

He encourages the muslim individual to look past the prejudices they might meet in their life. It's ''up to the muslims to assume their responsibilities, construct clear arguments, engage in dialogue both in their communities with others''

Tariq also encourages the muslims to reject the vision of ''us. vs. them'' 

He wishes active citizenships to be encouraged and that a European islamic culture needs to be created by respecting Islamic principles while adopting European tastes and styles. ]]> 2017-05-04 17:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016214 kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016257 Esin

The writer:
hanif Kureishi, b. 1954, is a english writer with roots from Pakistand and England. He is a son of a Pakistani father and an English mother. He has published novels and short stories.

The story:
The following text, tells the story about a father named Pervez who has a son named Ali. Pervez starts going through his son Ali’s stuff because he is suspicious that something is wrong. His son has started throwing out his stuff, he and his girlfriend have split up and his friends have stopped calling. Pervez has been a taxi driver for twenty years, but his colleagues are not very supportive. They exult in Pervez’s failure as a father as they are convinced that Ali is selling all his things, computer, guitar etc. in order to get money for drugs. Pervez often works at night and hangs out with Bettina who is a prostitute. He is more comfortable talking to her than with his own wife. When he entrusts Bettina with his secret, she is very helpful and tells him which signs he has to look for if he wants to expose Ali’s drug addiction. Pervez, however, does not detect any of the signs Bettina has described. Instead he observes how Ali starts to grow a beard and pray when he is alone in his room. When he finally plucks up courage and tries to talk to Ali, he finds out that Ali is already fully convinced that the rules of the Quran is the only true philosophy. He is even willing to die for the Islamic religion. Pervez tries to infuse his own liberal-mindedness into his son, but it is too late. He ends up beating his son because he feels he is completely out of reach and Pervez feels powerless. The final comment from the son is, “So Who’s the fanatic now?” ]]> 2017-05-04 17:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016257 kari8128 https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016297 Sebastian Liebach Steen
By Kate Nivison
The story is about an Indian/Pakistani/afghan/central southern Asian woman, who lives in a nice house in a nice neighborhood with her husband and their two kids. She is a stay-at-home wife. The story starts with the woman, Indrani, who is also the narrator. She says that she is a nervous sleeper and gets awoken by some scratching noises. She keeps hearing them for some nights, and one day she looks in the cupboards and sees holes bitten into the bags of rice and other grains.
She decides not to tell her husband since he might blame her. Instead she goes to the shopping center with her youngest. She gets help from the pensioners and other moms at the mall. She gets cheese and traps for mice and sets them up.
The first night they don't catch anything, but the cheese is gone.
The next night they hear a heart wrenching scream and go down to investigate. Only to find a big fat rat with its tail stuck in one of the traps.
The husband takes control of the situation and he is calm and doesn't blame the Indrani. He buys traps and poison for rats instead and calls the council. The council sends rat exterminators to asses the situation. They're a bit astounded by these Asians living in such a nice neighborhood. They make some racist remarks but helps with the infestation.
It turns out that the rats are coming from a sever running just below the house. Hence the title "Just below the surface". The story ends with the oldest of the exterminators saying "We can't kill the all. The main thing is to send them back where they came from, and then pretend they ain't there. Know what I mean?" And she knows exactly what he means, because she was a victim of hate crime.]]> 2017-05-04 17:58:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kari8128/opofufa06zyv/wish/170016297