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...this context, remaking Asian films is nothing more than cultural imperialism, an effort to insulate America from representations of Asia. In a 1997 article in Slate, Eric Liu writes optimistically about the “Asianization of American culture,” the possibility for merging East and West. Today’s bubble tea-drinking, karaoke-singing hipster could be tomorrow’s cultural acceptance and integration. But how much effect can Asian culture have in America if its Asian origins are denied? Apparently, pop culture has since figured out the solution to the Yellow Peril: Just whitewash...
...seek intellectual and political diversity much more rigorously than it has in the past. For if diversity is truly held to be a valuable goal in the makeup of a faculty, schools must consider the hiring of more conservative professors an important part of that commitment. Only in this context can bias cease to be the problem and become its own solution...
...violations found during inspections conducted by the City of Cambridge Inspectional Services Department, the agency responsible for oversight of food safety in the City. The article presents an incomplete view of food safety, and I would like to put the findings cited in the article into a more balanced context...
Goldsmith said that he is legally barred from commenting about the third memo, the March draft on removing detainees from Iraqi soil. “I can talk about the legal arguments, but I can’t talk about the memo itself or its context,” Goldsmith said...
...background and spiral back and forth between the stereo channels. It seems strange to describe a 23 minute experimental-acoustic track as “sparse” and “restrained,” but both of these adjectives are apt to describe this, given the context of the recent V8rdom material and especially eYe’s Visian Recreation Newsound remixes. The drums continue to build in the track, until 4:33, when a piano(!) enters into the fray, weaving improvisational lines in with Yoshimi’s continued vocal flourishes, still wordless, merely a beautiful crooning...