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Author Archives: Mitsuru
Obama Bows to Emperor Akihito
Barack Obama’s bow-at-the-waist to Emperor Akihito has garnered some pretty harsh responses in the US. Namely, it is anti-Obama critics jumping on the President’s gesture with the ferocity of a jock at my high school who’s just been implicated as … Continue reading
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So Why Do Asians Love Stereotypes of Themselves?
It was sitting in the middle of a packed theatre in downtown Toronto that I noticed racist jokes aren’t just funny to white people. Fu-gen, Asian Canadian Theatre Company operating out of Toronto has recently produced some plays that are … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Entertainment, Observations, The Arts
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White Men Making Decisions for Asian Women: Sarkozy and the Burqa
“It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic.” Following a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in which the two disagreed on the issue, French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a major policy speech condemning the covering. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Politics
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Reena Virk: 12 Years Later and No Sign of Justice for Hate Crime
Friday, June 12, 2009 marks the “conclusion” of the fourth trial for the murder of South Asian youth, Reena Virk. Reena was fourteen years old when she was killed in 1997 by a gang of white youth in Victoria, British … Continue reading
Thomas Beatie: “Pregnant-Again” Man, Once a Filipino
So I had heard a while ago that Thomas Beatie — a celebrity transman — is a mixie much like myself. He too has a white mama, an Asian daddy, and originally, an Asian surname. He too was born with … Continue reading
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What Does Being “Asian” Mean?
I tried not to take anything they taught me in grade nine geography class too seriously; it was one of those easy courses where the teacher read a National Geographic to herself while you coloured in maps for an hour … Continue reading
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