Word: asian-american
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...sadness, this is still an engaging play, and the AAA players' interpretation was especially intriguing. Though the script remained unchanged for the most part, the Americans here were Asian-Americans, the Russians became Chinese and Budapest was transplanted to a city in Vietnam to "make Chess contemporary and applicable for us in the '90s," according to the director's note. Two traditional Vietnamese songs--"Ly Ngua O" and "Ly Chieu Chieu"--were beautiful additions to the script. Twice during the play, slides were shown on the back wall of the set. The first set of slides featured professional Asian-American...
...college, Asian-American students have varying views about how they should be included under the minority label...
Some students find the umbrella term of "Asian-American" problematic itself. Grace C. Liu '00 says there is a misconception that Asian-American students are only Chinese, Japanese or Korean...
...Within the term 'Asian-American' there are many nationalities. There are very underrepresented groups like Vietnamese and Cambodian that get lost in the shuffle when people say that Asians aren't a minority," she says...
Wendy M. Lu '00 is bothered by the inconsistent definition of Asian-American and minority. "I don't think definitions of minority should change based upon the institution. Asian-Americans should always be considered a minority," she says...