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...Epps' alleged "insensitivities" was that he often offends Asian American students by "randomly" greeting them in East Asian languages. But even more telling was Cheng's remark to a Crimson reporter writing a story on the letter that "you wouldn't do that to every Black student, try to speak to him in jive. Why should you try to greet Asian students in various Asian languages...
There is a world of difference between the suggestion that a student would speak a language spoken by his or her ancestors and a thoughtless, misplaced Black stereotype. The analogy Cheng makes is ridiculously flawed--and is far more insensitive than any alleged remark or inefficiency attributed to Epps...
...three panel discussions, nor did he ever acknowledge the wrong and offer an apology. Secondly, when AAA (along with Harvard Foundations, E4A, and the Office for the Arts) invited Lane Nishikawa--a prominent Japanese American actor/writer/director--to perform at Harvard, Dean Epps deeply offended Nishikawa with a racially insensitive remark...
Since 1970, Hughes has filled our magazine's pages with vigorous commentary written at a high intellectual pitch. Yet he never fails to make his subjects appealing and accessible -- with humor, apt social context and, more than occasionally, a rude remark...
Superficially at least, it was a big advance over the last time Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa met with an American President: there were no digestive mishaps, and by quoting the song Yes! We Have No Bananas, Miyazawa made light of Bill Clinton's remark to Boris Yeltsin that Japanese say yes when they mean no. As for substance, however, Clinton's first U.S.-Japanese summit did not mark much of a change in the relations between the two countries. "Let's not paper this over," said Clinton. "There are differences still between the Prime Minister and me." Japanese markets...