Jovens bilingues com desempenho pior na escola

Researcher Reza Kormi-Nouri's study shows that bilingual children have a linguistic head start when they first go to school, but fall behind as they get older. His study, published in the 'Bilingualism: Language and Cognition' journal, runs counter to previous previous findings in the field.
"It's surprising because until now we believed it was the other way around: that bilingual children do worse in the first years of school but then catch up," said Kormi-Nouri in a release.
Kormi-Nouri carried out two types of tests in Iran on bilingual and monolingual children aged between 7 and 12-years-old. All of the children were tested in Persian, the language used in school. At home, the bilingual children spoke either Turkish or Kurdish.
The children were first given three minutes to come up with as many words as possible starting with a certain letter or relating to a particular category.
The younger bilingual children matched the single-language children in the letter test and scored higher in the category test. As they grew older, however, the bilingual children were overtaken, and Kormi-Nouri noted that the discrepancy widened with age.  [...]

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Suécia: Casa do cartoonista Lars Vilks incendiada

Solamente unos días después del ataque que sufrió el periodista y dibujante Lars Vilks en la Universidad de Uppsala mientras daba una conferencia, unos desconocidos prendieron fuego a su actual domicilio, un chalet en Nynäshamnläge, provincia de Skåne en el sur de Suecia, donde Vilks se escondía desde hace algún tiempo.

A las 11.00 de esta mañana del sábado, un vecino avisó al caricaturista de que «alguien» había provocado un incendio en su casa rompiendo las ventanas y echando al interior botellas de plástico con gasolina. Los bomberos y la Policía acudieron con urgencia a aquel lugar y pudieron apagar el fuego antes de que se propagara por todo el chalet. Por su parte Vilks, 63 años, tuvo la suerte de no encontrarse allí cuando se produjo el incendio.

Hoy tras este nuevo atentado contra su vida, el dibujante vuelve a desaparecer bajo tierra [...]

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O fracassso do modelo sueco de integração

Théâtre de récents affrontements entre des jeunes immigrés et la police, les quartiers populaires de Malmö témoignent de la difficulté à intégrer une population qui semble refuser le modèle scandinave et s’enferme dans ce qui est déjà qualifié de "ghetto de la nouvelle Suède multiethnique" [...]

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Debate sobre liberdade de expressão cancelado na Universidade sueca de Jönköping por razões de segurança

A debate about freedom of speech at Jönköping University has been cancelled due to security concerns. The reason is that the artist Lars Vilks would participate. Vilks made a couple of years ago a sculpture of the Prophet Mohammed as a roundabout dog which has made some people direct threats against him [...].

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Agricultor sueco repreendido por violar o bem-estar dos animais

A farmer in southern Sweden has been reprimanded by animal welfare authorities for the severe neglect of more than 100 animals.

Animal welfare inspectors discovered more than 100 neglected rabbits, several horses and livestock on a farm in Sjöbo in southern Sweden.

Authorities found overcrowded and dirty rabbit cages with insufficient hay and water. Horses and cows were confined in dirty and wet stalls. Several dead rabbits were found on the dungheap and the remains of two horses were left out in the open. [...]

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Iman que defende a execução de gays convidado para conferência na Suécia

An organisation for young Muslims in Sweden has outraged the country's largest gay rights group by inviting an imam in favour of executing homosexuals to speak at its April conference.

US-born preacher Sheikh Abdullah Hakim Quick, who has described Jews as "filthy" and advocates the execution of homosexuals, is scheduled to speak at the Sveriges Unga Muslimer ('Sweden's Young Muslims') conference this Easter weekend.

The Muslim group has claimed it was unaware of Hakim Quick's extreme views when the booking was made but said it would not remove him from the roster as this would disrupt the conference schedule. [...]

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Malásia critica a Suécia pela publicação dos cartoons

The Malaysian foreign minister has asked Sweden to take action against newspapers which reprinted a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog last week.

"Malaysia strongly denounces the reprinting of the caricature of Prophet Muhammad by three Swedish newspapers on 10 March 2010," foreign minister Anifah Aman said in an unusually outspoken statement yesterday.

He said his country was concerned that such "despicable acts disregard the
sensitivity of the Muslim world in the name of freedom of expression."

"Such irresponsible acts are provocative and offensive in nature and hence
it is totally unacceptable," he added. [...]

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Dois muçulmanos acusados de tentar matar o cartoonista sueco Lars Vilks

Two Muslim men were charged last night in the Irish Republic in connection with an alleged plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, whose artwork outraged many Muslims after he depicted the Prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog in 2007.

Algerian Ali Charafe Damache and Abdul-Salam Mansour al-Jehani, from Libya, were brought before a specially convened court in Waterford, south-east Ireland late last night [...]

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Centro de emprego na Suécia condenado por discriminação de homem muçulmano

The Public Employment Centre has been sentenced to pay 60 000 SEK to a Muslim man. The reason is that they have denied him his regular unemployment benefits after he refused to shake hand with a woman at his presumptive trainee-job.

In 2006, the 24 year old Alen Malik Crnalic applied for a trainee-place as welder at a company in Älmhult, south Sweden. But during the work interview, he refused to shake hands with the female CEO. As an active Muslim, Malik Crnalik is not allowed to touch women outside his family. Instead he greeted through placing his right hand on his chest and bowed [...].

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Malmö, Suécia: crescente influência muçulmana

A few years ago, the London Guardian newspaper called Sweden the most successful society the world has ever known. But Sweden today is being transformed by a large influx of immigrants from the Middle East.

Sweden's third largest city, Malmö, sits just across the water from Copenhagen, Denmark. To visitors, Malmö seems quiet, nice, maybe a little boring; in other words, quintessentially Swedish. But under the surface, Malmö has serious problems.

On Saturday when Israel played Sweden in a Davis cup tennis match in Malmö, an estimated 6,000 Leftists, Arabs, Muslims and anarchists protested the Israeli presence in the city, and hundreds attacked police. Almost no fans were allowed inside to watch the tennis series, because authorities feared disruptions or possible violence against the Israeli team.

Swedish City's Population One-Quarter Muslim

Massive immigration has made Malmö today one quarter Muslim, and stands to transform it into a Muslim majority city within just a few decades. One of the most popular baby names is not Sven, but Mohammed. Pork has been taken off some school menus. Want to learn to drive? You can attend Malmö's own "Jihad Driving School." [...]

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Distúrbios violentos nos subúrbios de Malmö

Scores of young people rioted on Thursday night in Rosengård, the Malmö suburb in which tensions have been running high since the recent closure of an Islamic cultural centre. Some 100 youths ran amok for the second straight night, setting cars and garbage bins ablaze and throwing stones at police, police said.

"We've had a very difficult evening. There have been fires burning since this afternoon in garbage bins and cars, there's extensive damage to public property, and there's been stonethrowing and bomb threats against police," police spokeswoman Ewa-Gun Westford told AFP. [...]

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