Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whenever I encounter debates on affirmative action, as I did on Nov. 3, I always ask myself the same question: why doesn't anyone discuss the minorities who are doing very well without it? Certainly there exists racism against Asians, probably of as strong a variety as any prejudice toward Hispanics or Native Americans (two minority groups who, with African-Americans, benefit most often from affirmative-action policies). Many Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese immigrants arrive in America from societies just as violent, environments just as depressed, as any Hispanic or African-American does. Surely, it is harder to learn English...
...credit ethnic groups for spreading awareness of their cultures and promoting political agendas. But it is a dangerous pursuit. Last year I attended that Asian American Association's Food Fest. After we ate our food, a speaker addressed the Asian-American students in the room about their lack of power, their under-representation and their need for solidarity. I felt alienated. I'm sure that what the speaker said was true, but I paid $5 to eat Asian food, not to be told that the Asian-American students in the room should band together against the forces of the white...
...probably won't go to an event that is pitched merely as a celebration of a particular culture. I'm really happy with the cultures I know about. But I will attend Ghungroo this year because I heard it was a great show, not in order to celebrate South Asian heritage. We all came here to be educated, and ethnic organizations have a tough role to play if they position themselves as being a necessary education in addition to classes...
Strangely, despite the intense selling pressure from overseas, the market opened simply garden-variety ugly at 9:30 a.m. Monday. We dumped and dumped and dumped; we were sure that a global sell-off would ensue from the Southeast Asian fallout, and we wanted to beat the panickers to the exit. The sell-off remained orderly until Barton Biggs, one of the reigning rainmakers on Wall Street, conducted a conference call with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter clients. Set up by brokers who actually thought Biggs might be bullish, the big shots who dialed in got a dose of fear that...
Clinton brought up the importance of a secure future for Hong Kong in a suddenly turbulent Asian financial climate. Jiang agreed with that too and said he was glad the New York Stock Exchange had rebounded because he was going to open its session when he was in New York City on Friday. "I don't want to put the gavel down and have [the market] plummet," he joked...