Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political pain on the Republicans without totally killing any prospect of a deal. But a political campaign for a new bill requires focus, which is something this White House has largely lacked during the second term, and particularly since the Lewinsky scandal broke open in January. Between managing an Asian financial crisis, nuclear tests in India and Pakistan and ethnic conflicts in Kosovo, the strategy is to book his days so fully that he never appears bogged down in scandal. Recent weeks have seen him planting flowers in Harpers Ferry, Va., talking to the Delaware assembly on education, discussing census...
...already be happening. More than half of Asian Americans under 34 marry outside their race (Liu is among them), and as he notes in the book's concluding essay, the boom in interracial marriage offers some fresh promise for America's agonized debate on race. Writes Liu: "Something new is emerging from the torrent." This book makes one hope Liu will be there to chronicle...
...book, Liu, 29, defies easy categorization. He grew up in an integrated middle-class suburb of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the son of professionals; he went on to 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...
...careful, balanced views on race are a soothing respite from the usual partisan cacophony, which makes his cursory treatment of the most divisive issue--affirmative action--a little disappointing. Still he comments insightfully on almost every other race-loaded topic of the day, from the Asian campaign-finance scandal to Tiger Woods. "I wish for a society that treats race as an option, the way white people today are able to enjoy ethnicity as an option," he writes. "As something cost-free, neutral, fluid...
...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...