Word: exoticisms
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The most exotic elements in modern Asian-American works can be attributed to older generations' "preoccupation with the past," Chou said, explaining that younger Asian-Americans were more likely to draw their own inspirations from American culture.
It's two o'clock in the morning and the peak hour at Store 24. The Snapple and Dorito shelves--the store's traditional best sellers--are looking lonely. A small crowd huddles around the piles of cellophane-wrapped sandwiches, wavering between exotic macro meals and basic meatball subs.
Of course, we didn't appreciate the food once we got it, either. The best dish happened to be the least exotic of the five we sampled. The Asmara Tibbs is a simple diced beef with peppers and onions, not quite the way Ma would cook it, but not all...
In one ridiculous scene, for example, Gallimard makes policy based on the faux-exotic drivel Song has been feeding him, claiming to his superior at the embassy that "once you know Orientals, you realize they're secretly attracted to our Western ways." It's hard to see Gallimard as representative...
The view of nineteenth-century white society that Asian men were asexual and that Asian women were submissive and exotic continues today and will doubtless haunt us for a long time. However, although we may not always have the power to choose how others represent us, we do have the...