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While some minority students say they turn to ethnic communities for a sense of belonging, those who fall between the cracks of traditional racial boundaries often feel they have to fight for their place on the Harvard campus...
...Massachusetts-Amherst, C.N. Le, just 0.1 percent of Chinese-American men have African-American wives, compared to 5.1 percent who are married to white women.Zhao’s parents’ joke might be jarring to many, but it underscores the obstacles facing Asian-Americans who date across racial lines.At Harvard, students say, interracial relationships involving Asian students seem relatively common, and they may not draw as much attention as other interracial pairings.But even this prevalent form of interracial dating is bound by its own set of rules and expectations, which students say complicate every intersection of romance...
...America’s war grew worse and worse” the script ominously tells us). Need a ready-made authoritarian figure? Make him white, conservative, and religious, and make his party’s symbol the Christian cross. Need targets of discrimination? Easy, make them racial minorities and homosexuals. Need a criminal conspiracy? Easy, use big business. It is only pettiness that can explain why, in a world under serious and unremitting threat from Islamic extremists, it is Christianity that is depicted as intolerant, spiteful, authoritarian, and power hungry. It is only pettiness that can explain...
...like skin color or where our ancestors came from.” He called for a “Color Blind Students Association” to take their place.The Harvard Foundation was formed in 1981 by University administrators who wanted to “improve relations among racial and ethnic groups,” according to the foundation’s website.A quarter-century later, some of the ethnic mixing at Harvard is occurring within ethnic organizations themselves. For example, the current membership of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC) actually looks a lot like the Color Blind Students Association...
...Additionally, the argument that cultural, ethnic, and gender groups siphon members off from non-racial or non-gender groups overlooks the fact that very often these groups motivate their members to get involved in other groups. The BMF makes an elaborate effort every year to get its members to run for and be elected to the UC; the UC presidential candidacy of current BMF President Tracy Moore ’06 is the most prominent example of this...