Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...student may take a course in any department that deals comparatively with any three of the five major ethnic groups in the United States--Euro-Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans...
...Harvard were to establish a new gay student center, it would be opening a Pandora's box. If we establish a gay student center, what is to prevent black students, Hispanic students, Asian American students or international students from demanding their own spaces? The purpose of establishing the new student center was to create a shared space in which students from different backgrounds can come together and socialize. Building student centers for specific constituencies would go against everything the student center seeks to foster...
Just when I thought that Harvard students had come up with all the possible unique names, categories and even sub-categories for cultural clubs, yet another combo emerges. This week's entry is the Half Asian Persons Association (HAPA). This association, formed by Christine Muraski Millett, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the department of East Asian languages and civilizations, hopes to congregate students of this particular biraciality to promote discussion of multicultural issues. Although a unique attempt at social awareness, HAPA's existence reinforces the ugly truth that Harvard students need to categorize and label just about everything...
...problem with forming all these sub-clubs is that it stands as testimony that the race itself--the Asian race or the African-American race--is so divided within itself that it can't function as a collective body. It implies that something is wrong within, in this case, the Asian race or the Caucasian race. What should be examined more closely are the reasons why half-Asian students do not feel welcomed in the already existing Asian clubs or with the Caucasian community and feel it necessary to take such a drastic measure such as forming a separate club...
...thing we were able to accomplish at Stanford was to make other Asian-American groups on campus more inclusive," Millett said. "I've talked to people who've gone to meetings and come back horrified. They said, 'Oh, you're only half.' Half Asians don't always fit in with fully Caucasians or 100 percent Asians...