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Unfortunately for the Asian American demographic in the United States, there exist various myths concerning its behavioral and general attitudes towards political involvement. One crude stereotype has its origins in the prevalent East Asian practices of gift-giving and “red-envelope” bribery that accompany any Eastern courtship of political power; Asians, so the image goes, are often self-serving operators less interested in political due process than in buying out vested interests through whatever means possible...
...Despite all this, the U.S. debate about withdrawal from Iraq seems remarkably indifferent to those whose lives have been upended. The Bush Administration talks of staying the course without expending nearly enough political or financial capital to mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe that it pretends does not exist. Many advocates of withdrawal point to the humanitarian disaster as a ground for leaving without addressing how worse suffering might be averted...
...there the conversation ends. Students feel progressive, on average, while no one is surprised that a few bad eggs exist in the semi-secret world of million-dollar mansions filled with portraits of dead white men. We can rest easy, it seems, for even if clubs do not welcome blacks, Asians, or gays, final club devotees constitute a mere 15-20 percent of students—a minority themselves. Many members of final clubs, too, can justify their affiliation by distancing themselves from the occasional public relations disaster: “He’s not my close friend...
Furthermore, the T-shirt movement presumes that stigma will continue to exist unless we, the uninfected, can experience what it is like to be a person who is publicly HIV-positive—and that by wearing a cotton T-shirt, we can begin to understand. This is based on the idea that an awareness movement can only work if empathy exists. But the fact that I do not have HIV does not mean I lack compassion for those who are suffering...
What gets you in Shanghai isn’t that between 1992 and today they’ve built twice as many skyscrapers as exist in New York City. Or that another 1,000 are slated for completion for the World Expo in 2010. (Construction is literally taking place around the clock on its tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center...