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One World, One Sky: Outreach in a Multicultural, Multilingual Metropolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

M. Reid*
Affiliation:
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto email: mike.reid@utoronto.ca
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As cities around the world grow more and more diverse, we must take this diversity into account in developing outreach activities and materials. The International Year of Astronomy in 2009 brought a lot of attention to the needs of underserved communities and developing countries, emphasizing the ideal of widespread access to astronomy outreach. Increasingly, however, we find that some of the same challenges facing underserved communities and developing countries are also present in modern metropolises. Conveniently, the linguistic and cultural diversity of our cities is more and more accurately reflected among the astronomy community. The diversity of the astronomical community itself creates opportunities for effective multicultural, multilingual outreach.

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