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...Iran and Cuba, all of which are unsympathetic to America. China has also approached U.S. counterweights like the European Union, with which it has just concluded a successful summit settling textile quotas. Although China has become an increasingly powerful player on the world—and especially the East Asian??stage, neither China nor the U.S. can afford a drift into distrust and hostility. A successful summit must address openly and candidly these fundamental truths about China’s growth and U.S. hesitation about that growth...
From the samurai-like topknot he sometimes wears in his long, black hair, to the touchdowns he’s acrobatically caught, to the yards he’s valiantly accumulated—and even down to this ethnicity, which is half-white, half-Asian??Edwards is not like most college football players...
With titles like “Thin Enough to Be Asian?? and “Another American Mutt,” the essays clearly cohere around questions of ethnicity and identity in America...
...deplorable. And yet, oddly, no one is likely to soon write a “Gay or White?” column. Why should the racial identifier “White” seem to encompass too many diverse human lives to caricature, while the identifier “Asian?? does not? At best, the reduction of the rich diversity of a pan-ethnic minority group into a mere subculture gives it a status subordinate to white heritage, and is deeply disrespectful. At worst, the pigeonholing of Asian Americans into limited personas feeds the unconscious conviction that they...
...systemic, unacknowledged racism surrounding Asian Americans. For our part, we neither seek amends from Details nor wish in any way to see their right of expression curbed. We aim instead to draw attention to the assumption pervasive in the larger readership that the definition of an “Asian?? American includes homogeneity, foreignness and incomprehensibility. The Asian American has been imagined less as a person than as a caricature: like a person, but without comparable depth of personality, and with exaggerated features. This perception has been called a “generalization...