Word: asianness
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...even those who did vote for him may experience racism in their daily interactions. Indeed, in some ways, diversity in America has even aggravated the problem: As the number of minority groups in America has increased, discrimination has been extended on a racial and religious basis to Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, Arab-Americans, Muslims, Sikhs, and others...
...Chinese astrologer takes all these factors into consideration when charting an individual's personality or determining what a new year will bring. These predictions aren't just for carnival sideshows or fortune cookies: in many Asian cultures, each year's forecasts are studied carefully for portents relating to business, romantic and family decisions for the coming year. Some Chinese plan births during dragon years to improve their children's fortune. Some people born in "wrong" years have reportedly been excluded from attending weddings and funerals. As for those making plans for 2009, be warned: because the element of fire...
...Asian communities throughout the world will mark the Lunar New Year beginning Jan. 26 with festivities that include plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back...
...Attended the private all-girls Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and was an avid tennis player. She majored in Asian studies and studied Chinese at Dartmouth, where she graduated magna cum laude. She received a law degree from UCLA in 1991 after completing an internship at the United Nations Crime Prevention Branch in Austria...
...Like the endless blending of culinary traditions - a subject Sardar uses as a point of entry into how and why a term-defying group lazily called South Asians ended up in the U.K. - Balti Britain too is a garam masala of styles. It is part autobiography, part family history, part history, part journalism, part polemical essay. His favored method is to use an often mundane morsel of information and then launch into an erudite analysis of the surprisingly complex ingredients of which it is composed. For example, the unorthodox orthography of the name of his friend, AbdoolKarim Vakil...