Word: khoi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central-government revenues come from Ho Chi Minh City's textile factories, shrimp-processing plants and other businesses. The city is a commercial and banking center, as well as the capital of Vietnam's burgeoning oil and gas industry, which generates most of the nation's export income. Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street, formerly Tu Do (Freedom) Street, formerly the Rue Catinat-perhaps Vietnam's most famous avenue-is newly lined with first-class restaurants and gracefully remodeled office buildings. Cholon, the Chinese commercial district, is thriving. Indeed, Vietnam's 1 million ethnic Chinese, long a persecuted minority, are responsible...
...Khoi: Asian women have problematic relationships with their fathers. Asian women tend to think Asian men are sexists...
...impulse to categorize is kicking in "Science concentrators... pre-meds... studious...and Quincy House, these guys must be Asian." they are but they're secure enough not to mind your inference. Over chicken sandwiches and fries with tampico seasoning, an admittedly non-random sampling of Asian manhood--roommates Dan. Khoi, Andy, Alfred, Larry, and Albert, and lunch buddies Albert, Clarence, and David--good-humoredly talked stereotypes, the media, relationships and women...
...Khoi T. Luu `94: I think it depends on your context of comparison...To the outside world, we're week. Within the family and community we're sexist, and wife beaters...
...Khoi: I think a lot of times Asian males are very conscious of whom they want to date. They want To keep the line pure. The white woman is off limits. To say `damn, white men are taking our women [shows] an inferiority complex...