Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your "Cultural Festival Excludes Asian Christian Group," (News, Feb. 12) may have had the negative effect of diminishing the value of our annual festival and undermining the efforts of many Harvard undergraduates who worked diligently to make this event a success. Furthermore, the opinion piece on "The Mis-Education of Cultural Rhythms" (Feb. 24) demonstrates a limited understanding of the festival and its mission, and diminishes the successful work of students...
...comparisons between the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (HRAACF) and other performing groups in your news article were misleading, as HRAACF specifically likened the nature of their mission and performance to that of Hillel; however, this fact was omitted. While Hillel is as HRAACF states, a religious group that performs dances in the festival, they do not perform religious dances...
Sommer talked about the need for "democratizing the space we share with other ethnicities," suggesting that this initiative would shortly be followed by similar programs for Asian American and American Indian studies...
...addition, Yunte Huang, a specialist in Asian-American literature and American modernism who is completing his Ph.D. in trans-Pacific literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo, will expand the department's offerings in the realm of Asian-American literature, an area which currently has no instructors...
...Japan's economy lumbers forward, its lending to Asia should help recovery there, as will its imports of Asian goods. The heft of Japan's economy means every small uptick will help the U.S. export more. "The difference in lost output between -3% growth and 2.5% growth in Japan over 24 months is equal to the GDP of China," says Courtis...