Word: asian-american
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...sincerely driven by intellectual curiosity rather than an ulterior motive to couple. Unfounded charges of fetishism may frustrate attempts at cross-cultural edification and defeat the very goal originally aspired to by ethnic groups. Alexander T. Nguyen '99, a Crimson editor in Pforzheimer House, is former president of the Asian-American Association...
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra; Refugee Term Enrichment Program; Harvard-Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth; Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship; Mozart Society Orchestra...
Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe - Co-President - Fundraising Chairperson; An Evening with Champions - Exec. Manager; PBHA - Colprep Kids Co-Director - Cabinet; Harvard-Radcliffe Asian-American Christian Fellowship...
...Yale and Harvard Law School, worked as a Clinton speechwriter and became an MSNBC pundit. As an adolescent he identified less with other Asians than with "that subset of people... who were educated, affluent: going places." He began, he says, to "imagine myself beyond race." In The Accidental Asian, Liu still distances himself from the identity politics of the multicultural left. He points out the folly in the idea that a shared Asian-American identity can be woven from the many strands--Japanese, Korean, Indian, Pakistani--of Asians in America. And he argues further that racial groupthink can stir...
...Disney cartoon, with comic relief--a little wheezy at first, in a matchmaker scene that seems to revel in inflicting pain--and yearning romance. It has some star voices, like Eddie Murphy, very funny as the Mushu shrimp, and a fine cast of East Asian and Asian-American actors (Ming-Na Wen, B.D. Wong, Soon-Tek Oh, James Shigeta) playing the main characters. But what's terrific about Mulan is its reaching for emotions that other movies run from: family love and duty, personal honor and group commitment, obedience and ingenuity. Nice notions for kids to think about...