Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consorcio lottery method for financing cars [July 21] may be "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair," but its origins are in the Old World. Although such rotating credit associations are known widely in Asia, Africa, and now in Latin America and the West Indies, the most likely source of the Brazilians' consorcio is the esusu of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas...
...International Seminar will hold its final open forum of the summer at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. Messrs. Jayasuriya, Latin, Nishi, Oduhton, Shamsuddoulah, and Woo will discuss "Prospects of Democracy in Asia and Africa...
Cultural differences between the United States and East Asia contribute to stalemate and frustration on both sides and make an end to the Vietnam War more difficult, John K. Fairbank '29, director of the East Asian Research Center, has written in a Washington Post article earlier this week...
According to Fairbank, another important cultural barrier is our inability to understand the importance of "face" or personal prestige as a motive force in everyone's life in East Asia...
...first necessity in dealing with East Asia. Fairbank writes, is to break away from the limited viewpoint which our own culture imposes upon us. Fairbank says that we "have to put our message in the terms of the other culture if we want to get it across...