Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of the New Otani employees are immigrants. And the tactics used against the hotel are typical of the unorthodox new weapons of labor's "corporate campaigns." Local 11 of the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees sends delegations to Japan and Hong Kong to rally Asian unions against the hotel and urge travel agents to avoid it. It has secured endorsements from scores of the city's Asian and Latino civic and business groups, as well as 11 out of 15 city councillors, and it blocked rush-hour traffic with a sit-down protest last spring that resulted in 57 arrests...
...this industry decline here simply because we couldn't compete with children's wages in the Third World. In a global economy, companies will manufacture wherever wages are lowest. Now we need global unions to help establish and enforce the minimum wage and all other benefits workers should enjoy. Asian child labor and European unemployment are aspects of the same problem. It's an illusion to think otherwise. Neither difficult situation will be solved by politicians and unions who still think only of national interests or by consumers indifferent to the health and future of all children, in both rich...
What scholars do know is that the ancestors of the Olmec, like those of all Native Americans, were Asian hunter-gatherers who crossed into the Americas at least 12,000 years ago, at the end of the most recent ice age. Bits of ancient garbage and the remains of mud buildings hint that by about 2000 B.C., some of their descendants had settled in what is now the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco, living in small fishing villages along the region's rivers...
...University promised to hire four new professors in Asian-American and Hispanic Studies and to continue to recruit faculty members for its African-American studies department...
Students, however, say that ethnic studies must be viewed much more specifically, as Asian American studies, Native American studies and American Latino studies...