Poem inscribed on the wall of the Angel Island detention center, off the coast of California, where Asian immigrants were detained. More poetry, info, and attribution at the link below.

Translated from Toishanese

Imprisoned in the wooden building day after day,
My freedom withheld; how can I bear to talk about it?
I look to see who is happy, but they only sit quietly.
I am anxious and depressed and cannot fall asleep.
The days are long and the bottle constantly empty; my sad mood, even so, is not dispelled.
Nights are long and the pillow cold; who can pity my loneliness?
After experiencing such loneliness and sorrow,
Why not just return home and learn to plow the fields?

https://www.a
iisf.org/poems-and-inscriptions

#poetry #immigration #Asian #detention

So - WOW.

This is the title song from #Disney 's #movie #Frozen, sung in *twenty-five* #languages! 🤩

(See the notes for languages & timestamps.)

It's incredible how equally beautifully they were able to fit the flow of the lyrics in so many wildly different languages - not just the romance languages of #French, #Italian, #Spanish, etc., but also #Asian languages such as #Thai, #Korean, & #Japanese, & then those such as #Russian, #Serbian, #Polish, & #Flemish.

WOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS0T8Cd4UhA

Ik moet nog steeds mijn ID showen en mensen denken dat ik een teenmom ben, maar ben (helaas) toch echt 30 💀

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