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...heated debate on the e-mail list of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association (CSA) regarding the current Japanese prime minister’s unwillingness to apologize for sex crimes against the Chinese during World War II prompted a discussion yesterday about tensions within Harvard’s Asian community. About a dozen people from the CSA, the Korean Association (KA) and the Asian American Association gathered in Ticknor Lounge for the talk, titled “Our Generation’s Perceptions of Different Asian Ethnicities.” CSA President Lydia N. Lo ’09 said...
Under previous lottery regimes, Houses boasted individual characters based on the social types that dominated their entryways. Varsity athletes perennially comprised large blocs in Kirkland and Mather Houses. Quincy was the Asian house; Adams was "artsy." Most unsettling, though, in the minds of administrators, was the disproportionate number of minority students populating the Quad...
...just as slavery effaced regional differences among Africans, 9/11 lumped together widely disparate people: many Arab Americans are not Muslim, and many Muslim Americans (Iranian, South Asian, black) are not Arab. Pop culture, to put it mildly, has paid less attention to these nuances. Maz Jobrani, an Iranian-American Axis comic and actor, says he's often cast as "Unspecified Foreign Guy" and plays an Indian cabdriver on The Knights of Prosperity...
...ominous intro to “Photograph” is reminiscent of “The Virgin Suicides” and maintains intensity without an overstated volume or tempo. “Mer du Japon,” a further exploration of Air’s quite apparent Asian fetish, is closer to “Talkie Walkie” than any of the proceeding tracks. The song even comes fully equipped with a bridge devoid of all other sounds besides waves crashing and a tragic-sounding mandolin. “Redhead Girl” finally brings the album?...
When Shinzo Abe took over as Japan's Prime Minister last September, there was concern inside and outside of Tokyo that his right-wing leanings would put Japan on a collision course with its Asian neighbors. As a young legislator, Abe had pushed for a reexamination of Japan's expressions of guilt over its actions in World War II, and had called for changes in Japanese textbooks on the war. But during his first few months in office, Abe confounded critics by appearing to curb some of his earlier conservative inclinations. He moved to repair relations with China and South...