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...Ireland and spent the rest of his life bringing Christianity to the region. People in the United States began observing the holiday after massive Irish immigration and the establishment of Irish communities in the early 20th century. But the focus of the day has shifted from religious ceremonies to ethnic pride and parties in modern times. “Fun, green, drunkenness,” Marissa L. Long ’08 said at the Woodbridge Society’s St. Patrick’s Day party on Saturday. “I’m Catholic?...
...ride or an exorbitant plane ride, the cheaply priced train has doubled the number of tourists entering Tibet and made access much easier for tens of thousands of Chinese seeking to cash in on a local economy juiced by billions of dollars of investment from Beijing. Chinese already outnumber ethnic Tibetans in Lhasa, and many Tibetans felt that they might end up as strangers in their own country, a fate suffered by Mongolians in Chinese-administered Inner Mongolia...
Beijing is particularly incapable of flexibility when it comes to policy toward ethnic areas of the country because it fears that any sign of weakness could open up the floodgates and lead to widespread demand for autonomy in other areas such as the Muslim province of Xinjiang. "There is just no safety valve for ethnic issues in China," says Bequelin. "It remains one of the most retrograde areas of policy. They just don't have the tools to handle something like this...
...focused on Chinese history and geography center on Taiwan. Learning a local dialect such as Taiwanese, Hakka or aborigine - languages the KMT once banned in the classrooms - is now compulsory in elementary school. Today's youth and pop artists have also sparked a movement that embraces local culture. An ethnic slur, taike - which Taiwan's mainlanders used decades ago to describe the uncultured locals they found on the island - has become something cool. Taike now means a "Taiwanese character" (as in "that guy's a real character"). In his hit rap song I Love TW [Taiwan] Girls, taike icon...
...University of Colorado at Boulder’s online news source—calling readers to attack the souls of Asians and threatening to hogtie Asian students in his apartment. The content of this column was obviously appalling. Although made in jest, threats against a particular ethnic group are never funny. But more curious is this: How can a column like this, entitled, “If it’s war the Asians want…” get published in a college weekly? [See correction below...