(Left to Right, seated): Students from the Chinese Student Association-Mainland: Lishu Qu; Jing Xu; Yixuan Zhao.
(Left to Right, standing): Wei Kang Tu; Sam Lin, Tai Chi instructor and department specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UMSL; Sahn Che, Tai Chi master, visiting from California; UMSL students Tina Ng; Veronica Soon; Cheng-Ying Yu.
By Scanews
Being aware of other cultures means learning about their social customs, hearing their music and dancing in their footsteps. The sixth annual Multicultural Awareness Day at the University of Missouri-St. Louis was held at noon on April 25 in the Century Rooms of the Millennium Student Center.
"The goal of Multicultural Awareness Day is educational," said Rochelle Declue Walker, assistant director of multicultural relations at UMSL. "We want people to hear, see, experience and do. We want them to walk away feeling like they really know the culture, that they have been immersed in another culture."
Multicultural Awareness Day at UMSL
 
Sam Lin, department specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UMSL, performing a demonstration of Tai Chi at the 6th annual Multicultural Awareness Day at UMSL on April 25.
Performances and demonstrations were given by the Eritrean Women Dancers, East Indian Sisters, Spoken Word Artists and Sam Lin, a research specialist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who is a Tai Chi instructor.
Myah Maedell Shaw, a communication major at UMSL, is a talented actress. She has performed with the Saint Louis Black Repertory Company and has done theater workshops and voice-overs. At the UMSL event, she was delivering the monologues "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf" and "The Women of Brewster Place."
Student organizations that had booths include the Chinese Student Association-Mainland, Pan African Student Association, Associated Black Collegians, Hispanic Latino Association and Peer Horizons.
Multicultural Awareness Day is sponsored by Multicultural Relations, Academic Affairs, Office of Student Life, Office of Equal Opportunity and Multicultural Leadership Council.
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