Word: hardships
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...Worse, still, for the organization's reputation, Chongyron encouraged tens of thousands of zainichi families to repatriate to North Korea in the 1960s, where they faced unimaginable hardship and oppression. "Chongyron became a tool of Kim Il Sung," says Kim Kyoo Il, who left the organization in 1965. "All he did was use the zainichi as human resources for the North Korean regime." (Chongyron did not respond to requests for comment.) Things became worse for the organization in the 1990s when undeniable proof of human rights atrocities in the North began to reach Japan's zainichi. The knockout blow came...
...produced Volume II of the 13-volume Japanese translation of Das Kapital.) But the JCP will likely pick up protest votes in July's legislative elections, and the party is zealously recruiting new members. "I think my friends and those around me have a lot of difficulty and hardship finding themselves, having any confidence in themselves," says Suzuki, the Wako University student. "But as a member of the JCP, I have a wider perspective on my future. I know we have possibility." Who said the war was over, comrade...
There's nothing new about such tales of hardship and pop-culture dreaming, of course (Saf's older sister swoons to Hopelessly Devoted to You from Grease). But in Manzoor's telling, every sigh comes with a different inflection. This is a boy who kisses the Koran before wishing for a ZX Spectrum computer, and was so innocent in adolescence that he thought a "blue movie" was one that made you cry. When he and his best friend, a Sikh, head off to their first Springsteen concert, they go armed with the vegetable samosas and chapatis their mothers have cooked...
...Like 250,000 other Filipinas in Hong Kong, Unite is a domestic worker. She arrived here in 1996, young but toughened by 21 years of struggle and hardship. And her story since then is that of an entire generation of impoverished, migrant Filipinos, hailed the "modern heroes" of a nation unable to provide jobs for them at home, and utterly dependent on the billions of dollars in remittances they send back each year...
...supposedly stamping out racism is that we should be judged by words and ideas, not by race or cultural background, they themselves are the worst perpetuators of that culture. Since I’m the upper middle class white daughter of Harvard graduates who has endured relatively little hardship, my viewpoint is moot on many topics. If someone of my background questions an assertion that something is racist, she is deemed racist herself. We must strive for fair treatment of minority interests on campus but not at the cost of disenfranchisement of the majority...