Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ethnic studies? First, wistful notions of a color-blind America aside, a marginalized status has characterized and continues to characterize the experiences of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Jewish Americans and other groups in this country to an extreme degree. Traditional approaches to American history tend to sanitize the "immigrant-minority experience" of these people, often reducing it to meaninglessness by simplifying and genericizing the effects of marginalized status. Only an interdisciplinary approach that recognizes the defining impact that marginalized status has had on the history of ethnic groups in this country achieves a rigorous and therefore useful...
Records were set in two demographic categories: 54 Hispanic students will enroll, up from the previous high of 50 in the Class of 1995; and 325 Asian-Americans plan to attend, up from 322 in the Class...
...areas encourages no one, and the only aid being delivered is to the vast new camps across Rwanda's borders in Tanzania and Burundi. At the U.N., there is only a vague hope for a cease-fire. "We are at a loss to know what to do," says an Asian delegate. The butchery is "inhuman, ghastly," says U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda David Rawson. Still, says another State Department official, "it's not that we have any plan." There is not likely to be one anytime soon. "We have got to hope that these people will understand that they are brothers...
Such statistics are merealy a reflection of the grater problem in the Asian community. While Asians make up three percent of the country's population, they are only one percent of the registered voters. A recent survey in the New York Times pointed out that there are only 60-70 elected Asian officials in the United States...
...Harvard, the Asian community should not be so segregated, a policy which results in a weakeinig of overall power. The political infighting is petty, and should be recognized as such . Moving toward unity is only one step in the process toward a more political Asian-American population. Individuals have the options to become more active in the community in a variety of ways . As more Asians run for council seats, eventually there will be greater representation within the college...