Word: hyphen
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...came up with some pretty great clothing.”The clothes in the show are a mixture of thrift store finds, students’ own clothing, pieces lent from local shops such as Mudo—a co-sponsor of the show—and original student designs. Hyphen, a San Francisco-based magazine on modern Asian-American life and culture, is also co-sponsoring the show and providing some of the clothes.‘PRETTY OUT THERE’AAA hopes “Identities” will become an annual event with different themes every year...
...Between Two Worlds" [May 1]: How subtly Korean-American Suzette Won Haas described the sense of "feeling like the hyphen in between" Asian and American in Asian-American. It's really hard for the current generation of Asian Americans to cherish their roots and seek their fortunes at the same time. Older immigrants' dilemma of whether to embrace their ethnic culture and community or be carried away by the American environment is like dealing with oil and water, and nowhere is that incompatibility more deeply felt than in romance. As Bob Ragasa, a Filipino-American teacher said, "Maybe...
...human baby is so strong that,according to The New York Times, researchers have recorded positive responses to "the young of virtually every mammalian species, fuzzy-headed birds like Japanese cranes, woolly bear caterpillars, a bobbing balloon, a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock, a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis typed in succession." : - ) There. Doesn't it just make you want to go "awwwwww...
...Jersey, upstate New York, small-town Virginia and the real O.C. But they are the children of parents who immigrated to the U.S. from India, the Philippines, Korea, Bangladesh and Taiwan. What they share, says Korean American Suzette Won Haas, 31, is the sense of "feeling like the hyphen in between" the Asian and the American in Asian-American...
...hard enough for hyphenees right now. Those aforementioned cruel SAT bubbles only allow space for last names fifteen letters long. “Hinniker-Schoenberg” turns into “HINNIKERSCHOENB.” After they get into college, hyphenees also face discrimination based on what that hyphen says about their background. During the Pring-Wilson trial, CourtTV analysts speculated that the defendant’s hyphen might make him appear richer and haughtier than he deserved. The result? An innocent hyphen might be responsible for Pring-Wilson’s six to eight years in the slammer...