Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules of interracial dating are supposed to be like this: If white dates Asian, it's a "fetish." If white dates black, it's "going jungle." These formulas usually leave Asian males and black females ogling Caucasians attending ethnic campus events with what ranges from amusement to indignity ("Why are they here? It can't be to learn about our culture. Must be a fetish...
...know how defensive I sound, and that brings me to my main point: Fetishism is a problem. A superficial preference for black males or Asian females or any other group grounded in stereotypes can and does offend deeply. Such a racial ranking of desirable (mostly sexual) partners represents ignorance of the basest kind...
...liberally charging the lone Caucasian at an Asian American Association's event with fetishism is just as dangerous a problem. While fetishism pinpoints cultural ignorance, random charges of fetishism impede attempts to address that very cultural ignorance by dispensing guilt. I wanted to learn more about my friend's ethnic history simply to fill a gap in knowledge I did not know was there until meeting her. Yet guilt tainted any attempt to fill that...
...sincerely driven by intellectual curiosity rather than an ulterior motive to couple. Unfounded charges of fetishism may frustrate attempts at cross-cultural edification and defeat the very goal originally aspired to by ethnic groups. Alexander T. Nguyen '99, a Crimson editor in Pforzheimer House, is former president of the Asian-American Association...
...There's a mix of people. You can see Americans, African-Americans, Asian-Americans--it's a mix of races," he says...