Word: caucasians
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Maya E. Frommer ’07 might have been an anomaly at Chinese Student Association meetings two years ago, when she was an officer of the group.For one thing, she’s not Chinese.“I’m completely Caucasian,” said Frommer, a government concentrator from Chicago.Frommer might have stood out at the group’s meetings, but on Harvard’s campus, she epitomizes a trend—undergraduates who are crossing traditional ethnic lines in their extracurricular choices.Joseph A. Pace ’06, a social studies concentrator...
...Kennewick Man Caucasian?Thanks to Chatters' mention of Caucasoid features back in 1996, the myth that Kennewick Man might have been European never quite died out. The reconstructed skull confirms that he was not - and Chatters never seriously thought otherwise. "I tried my damnedest to curtail that business about Caucasians in America early," he says. "I'm not talking about today's Caucasians. I'm saying they had 'Caucasoid-like' characteristics. There's a big difference." Says Owsley: "[Kennewick Man] is not North American looking, and he's not tied in to Siberian or Northeast Asian populations. He looks more...
...from,” he wrote. The study also broke down the data according to gender, race, and academic discipline. Sixty-six percent of African-American faculty describe themselves as spiritual “to a great extent,” the report said, compared to 48 percent of Caucasian faculty and only 37 percent of Asian and Asian-American faculty. Professors in the physical and biological sciences were less likely to believe that universities should concern themselves with students’ spiritual growth than professors in the humanities. Slightly more women than men “integrate spirituality...
...Musical—“It’s the Hard-Knock Life” “I appeared in Annie as a youngster. The musical, not the movie.” 5) AZN—“Asian Pride” Schwartze, a Catholic caucasian, explains that “I live with two Asians. Also I belong to the AACF (Asian American Christian Fellowship).” 6) “Blues Clues Theme Song” “Look at me! I’m cowering!” says a huddled...
...seems ridiculous to call the shirt racist in and of itself. The argument, of course, is that it perpetuates stereotypes. Do you know what often perpetuates stereotypes? Truth. Believe it or not, many Asians tend to have eyes that are narrower than most people of Caucasian background (hereafter white people). Thus, there may perhaps be a grain of truth behind the shirts, even if they are “offensive...