Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Millennium Generation, today's 15-to-25-year-olds, is the most racially mixed generation this country has ever seen. Its members are 60% more likely to be nonwhite than those of their parents' and grandparents' generations, and an increasing number are racially mixed. A third are black, Latino, Asian or Native American. And the two-thirds who are white have grown up with more exposure to people of other races, through school, sports, dating and the media...
...Justin, a white high school senior, who confessed that he sometimes felt uncomfortable around members of his own race, since he had grown up in an Oakland, Calif., neighborhood that is almost all black, Latino and Asian. His classmates Sandra and Diana were smart, studious Latinas who'd lived most or all of their lives in the U.S. Sandra went on to Berkeley, but Diana, with no green card and no money, couldn't attend college. I spoke with Steve, who had felt the sting of anti-Iranian racism, but as a recruiter for the Berkeley College Republicans, he nonetheless...
...grants from the Undergraduate Council, although they help out, we couldn't depend on them as our only source of funding," says South Asian Association (SAA) President Amit N. Doshi '00. "There are a lot of students who apply for the council grants so its understandable that it's tough for them to spend a good amount on everyone...
...that SAA received from the student activities fund will sponsor a literature discussion series featuring speakers on South Asian issues...
Such sentiment has not gone away. In the 1980s, there was a rash of Japan-bashing whose rhetoric affected not only Japanese Americans but other Asian Americans who were grouped with them. The 1997 campaign-finance scandal involving Chinese American John Huang also demonstrated that the fear of "yellow peril" persists. I don't think the scandal would have been half as pernicious if the donor had been, say, a German American...