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Sitting up with Wendell C. Ocasio '90 into the early hours of morning two years ago, Henry C. Hsia '90 recalls, the roommates engaged in one of several intense talks they would share in the Yard that year...
...people like Kwonjune Seung '91, the author of the East Wind article, whom I have in mind when I think about minority self-segregation. In his piece, Seung betrays his innermost thoughts: "Perhaps Hsia has never gone out on a dinner date with a white lady friend and felt the temperature drop several degrees. Then he cannot understand how liberating it can be to able to date members of the same minority group...
...Seung's assumptions shows most how little he, and I am sure many others, understand my viewpoint. "Perhaps Hsia has never been called 'chink' and felt shame." No, I have been subjected to racial slurs; though I never felt ashamed by them. My emotions ran closer to anger or condescension. I am not ashamed of being a minority. Nor am I ashamed of my opinion of minority organizations. The two statements are not contradictory...
...Asian-American, but I did take great offense to Mr. Hsia's statement that "A Chorus Line is not an appropiate script for an all-Asian cast." According to whom? Just because the Broadway cast is not all-Asian, does that mean that it cannot be adapted by an all-Asian cast? A crucial element to the "Chorus line" production, which I happen to be familiar with, is dance. Is Mr. Hsia aware that, in the movie version of "A Chorus Line" the actress who was cast to play the part of "T&A" had never had any dance training...
Finally, I am glad that Mr. Hsia's editorial was printed because it brought into the open some of the ignorance that concerns minorities and minority organizations. Harvard is a place where we can all learn from each other. Moreover, the assembly of minority groups should not be seen as a threat or a desire to be separatist. In a community of such diversity, minorities sometimes need to make associations with people of the same minority background for cultural, social, political, or whatever reason and their right to make these associations should be respected and admired. Mecca J. Nelson...