The Way - movie about the Camino de Santiago

The Way - 2010
movie about the Camino de Santiago the ancient pilgrim route to the town of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5VZKWcgw6c

5% of Maine speaks French

5% of Maine speaks French the largest percentage in the US. It is a legacy of French colony of Acadia.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-13/us-english-king-surprising-number-people-maine-also-speak-French

Over 80% speak French at home in US the town of Madawaska on the border with Canada.

Parts of New Hampshire and Vermont have significant French speakers as well.

Besides New England Cajun Louisiana is the only other region with major French-speaking populations

US % French language speakers by county



French colony of Acadia


Ethnic ancestry

America's growth corridors

America's Growth Corridors: the Key to National Revival

Joel Kotkin

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_75.htm#.VQ2K5fnF-Sp

Mexico a land of opportunity?

For Migrants, New Land of Opportunity Is Mexico - NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/world/americas/for-migrants-new-land-of-opportunity-is-mexico.html?pagewanted=2

Nicaragua reduces drug violence by having government facilitate drug trade

Nicaragua Follows Its Own Path In Dealing With Drug Traffickers
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/10/26/357791551/nicaragua-follows-its-own-path-in-dealing-with-drug-traffickers

Push and pull farming

Push and pull farming
http://www.biovision.ch/en/projects/kenya/push-pull-strategies/

Language Geography videos

Good language geography videos

New York accents - Emily Frances - 2 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlILInD-JkM

Chinese pidgin English re-enactment - Uta Lam - 1 min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YieVSrzRqRo

Portugal's unemployed headed for Mozambique - 2:30
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-17485667

Nigeria: the struggle to safeguard Nigeria's linguistic diversity - 3 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TiBg6ALkz0

Preserving Shanghai Dialect in China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMzWmUEftA

English as a language of the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhFiYkvXJSc

Tangier Island, VA Watermen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E

UNESCO Endangered languages
http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/index.php