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...Japan to vacuum up the latest scientific knowledge and take new ideas back home to advance the socialist cause. But the world outside proved too alluring for many students. Chen Jianjun, who arrived in the Japanese city of Kobe on a Chinese government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan's orderly society felt to a boy whose formative years were shaped by the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution. "Coming to Japan was like going to the moon," he says. "At Kobe University, the professors asked my opinions about Marx and Lenin. I had no idea that I was allowed...
...highest percentages in more than two decades. Video game-loving software consultant Wu recalls how he was once walking to work - he held down five part-time jobs to afford his graduate-school tuition - and was stopped three times in 15 minutes by police demanding to see his alien registration card. During one stint when Wu toiled as a janitor, his Japanese boss took the Chinese workers aside and admonished them against stealing from the offices they were cleaning, a warning never uttered to the Japanese staff...
...about those of us lucky enough to have been born here? How would we do against the typical illegal alien in a "prove how much you love America" reality TV show...
...very hard sound byte to address,” making it harder for the government to explore legalization policies. Preston later said that while immigration is a civil issue, it is often thought of as a criminal matter. “The words criminal and alien have gotten into the debate in a very inappropriate way,” she said. The problem of illegal immigrants has been a powerful political issue in recent years because of conflicts over services, especially the increased burden on local schools and hospitals, Preston said. While this new population is helping to meet...
...only point of fiction, the genre would have died long ago. After all, the facts in an imaginary world aren’t that important. The beauty of reading the classics is that one can enter into an intimate conversation with the author and lose oneself in an alien world—a world as strange, complex, and unable to be condensed as our own. Jessica A. Sequeira ’11, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Canaday Hall...