Word: chinamanã
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...Earlier this month, controversy boiled at Dartmouth concerningits newly appointed president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim. An anonymous e-mail referred to Dr. Kim as a “Chinaman?? and even went so far as to claim that “Dartmouth is America, not Panda Garden Rice Village Restaurant.” A few days later, xenophobic comments on the Crimson’s website began to circulate over many email lists: “Asians and Indians are not creative and are basically just cookie cutter academic grunts...
...stories, he described the burden of being an immigrant’s son and an outsider. After announcing his candidacy for student body president in high school in the 1930s, for example, the vice-principal asked Lee to withdraw. In spite of his not having “a Chinaman??s chance,” according to the administrator, he won the presidency...
...prove himself. Gong was first elected to the Florida House of Representatives from Dade County in 1963 in an election that, he recalls, many had said he “didn’t have a Chinaman??s chance of winning...
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