Book Club with Ted

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EdUSA Competitive College Club Bitola students discussed the book, 'Joy Luck Club' on June 22nd with the help of Peace Corps Volunteer Ted Shibata. The discussion focused on challenges of cultural translation among Chinese immigrant families as portrayed in the book. CCC students took that concept and applied it to other immigrant experiences and talked about how there are some universal themes that exist in the idea of cultural translation. Finally, they talked about the power of storytelling and how universal the concept is of conveying a message or lesson, when language or other cultural barriers exist.

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