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WINTERFEST. Fast all morning, because you’ll need room for the Taiwanese Cultural Society’s annual winter food and cultural festival, offering both a 22 course Taiwanese meal, and the opportunity to make a chopstick gun. Between bites , learn a little Taiwanese language, or watch performances from the Asian American Dance Troup or TCS Chinese Yoyo Club. Friday, March 7 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets $7, available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Quincy Dining Hall...
...second or third?time. But here, the garrulous footballer has been reduced to pantomime gestures and one-word exchanges. "Okay," says one teammate, clapping Gazza on the back as he watches the foreigner try to capture a particularly slippery dumpling. "Okay," responds Gascoigne, dramatically spearing the morsel with his chopstick. "Okay!" cheers the teammate. It's one of the longest conversations Gascoigne has had with a teammate...
From the bridge, venture east through the outdoor mall, the domain of slouching teenagers wearing baggy, white socks and sporting dyed red hair. The mall is peppered with 100-yen stores, the Japanese equivalent of the dollar store, where you can buy necessities like Hello Kitty bandages and chopstick sets. In the alleys alongside the central esplanade, old women sell fresh fish using floral umbrellas to shield their catches from...
...worry is that national homogeneity continues to be Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on your chopstick skills. This is not an "Expat-as-Victim" article: I know that in the immigration authority's hierarchy of gaijinhood, Caucasians have a far easier time than, say, Filipino "Japayukis," Russian exotic dancers or South American laborers. My point is that foreignness is like a magical garment from a folktale...
...A.Room might have struck a chord by waving the flag for Cantonese hip-hop but with success it's suddenly finding a larger mission. DJ Tommy earned raves from Japanese and Korean music 'zines in August with his A.Room-produced album Respect 4 Da Chopstick Hip Hop -- which he recorded with an eclectic mix of Japanese, Korean and Cantonese hip-hop artists. He believes beats can bring Asian youth together. "Because we like hip-hop we have something in common," says Tommy, who won international fame in the early '90s with his blurry-handed appearances at the world DJ competition...