Word: asianization
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...First elected to federal Parliament in 1974, he has traveled well beyond his origins and his own family's home on the city's comfortable North Shore. But the P.M. has never lost his bearings on the area he represents, even as it has been transformed by wealth and Asian immigration. In fact, Bennelong is Howard's touchstone for the get-ahead and assimilating migrants he believes are the key to national cohesion. As many as one-quarter of the seat's population are Asian-born. Many have professional, trade and technical qualifications; most share Howard's ferocious work ethic...
...might already have Asobi Seksu—Japanese for “playful sex”—in your iTunes library, since Apple recently offered the song “Thursday” as a free download. The NYC band combines poppish rock and a moody pan-Asian sound with the voice of potentially attractive singer/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate, to produce a sugary ambient effect. The music video for “Goodbye” finds its influences not in the sexiness of the band’s name but rather in its Japanese background. The aesthetic scheme...
...fastest growing economies today—is no longer a special-interest issue. Rather, study of the region has become absolutely essential to any curriculum that seeks to make global citizens of its students. However, despite claims by administrators that Harvard is committed to developing South Asian Studies, we have yet to see the administration devote resources to this area of study...
...South Asia Initiative. The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, however, lacks sufficient faculty resources and has been largely focused upon language study and classical traditions, both of which are essential but insufficient for a well-rounded South Asia program. Despite the availability of a secondary concentration in South Asian Studies and a South Asian Studies track within Sanksrit and Indian Studies, the fact remains that only six undergraduate non-language courses on South Asia are offered this semester. That courses that spend only a few days on South Asia are accepted for concentration and certificate credit is yet another...
...Meanwhile, the South Asia Initiative (SAI), a faculty consortium founded in 1999 to provide a forum for South Asian scholars across disciplines, does not have the power to appoint faculty or grant degrees. Though SAI has begun to offer grants for study in South Asia, it was only able to fund less than 50 percent of summer grant proposals last year; this despite former President Lawrence H. Summers’ statement that his favorite trip of 2006 was to India: “Every American should visit the country that may be our most important ally two decades from...