Word: asianized
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This is a letter in response to a Dartboard piece ("A Beef With Bamboo Shoots," Feb. 19, 1995) about the art exhibit co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association (AAA) displayed in the Science Center. We hadn't realized The Crimson had the luxury of replacing editorial space with tabloid gossip. We guess you couldn't even call it that--though the cattiness is there, most columns do a bit more research into their subject to avoid looking foolish after publication...
Allow us to correct--or better, to provide some facts about--the piece discussed. As a part of Asian American Cultural Month: Celebrating the Diversity of Asian American, AAA commissioned Mona Higuchi, an Arizona-based artist, to incorporate the responses of over 300 Harvard-Radcliffe students into a coherent exhibit. Collected in various dining halls earlier in the year, these were responses to the question, "Do you identify strongly with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" In the spirit of inclusion and celebrating the multiplicity of the Asian American perspective, all responses were displayed. With the help...
...Crimson piece belittles the content of the work as "pathos-laden drivel," summarily writing off all who expressed themselves as "self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existence." As you chose not to engage the piece as a work of art, i.e. giving it a critical review in the Arts pages, you attack and insult the population of Asian American students at Harvard-Radcliffe on a directly personal level...
Chong speculated that perhaps certain faculty fear that new ethnic studies offerings might upstage more conventional classes. She cited the popularity of English 179c, a course on Asian-American literature...
Because females in African and Asian societies are already at the bottom of the heap in the gender hierarchy, the effects of such cuts are felt more acutely by women, Heyzer said...