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...Asian American Association (AAA) has conscientiously led the assault, sponsoring a forum on stereotypes and an "Asian Model Search," for a mega-huge-real-Boston-media-coverage-expected-real -hairdressers-real makeup artists-Asian fashion show to be held later this month...
BEFORE you can consider modeling, my taller Asian brothers and sisters, you must be, according to AAA, "non-stereotypical and distinctive-looking...
...felt an acute sense of rejection when I learned that AAA had deserted me and all those Asian students whose rights they purport to promote--the simple majority of us who will never, even with spike heels, make the 5'6" minimum; who spend hours at the mall looking for clothes that won't make us look like little girls playing dress-up in mom's clothes; who deal with jeans and slacks rolled up into jumbo doughnuts around our ankles; who scour "petite" departments for clothes that are vaguely fashionable and aren't designed for middle-aged country club...
...AAA should realize that it's not physical characteristics that create a damaging stereotype. It's not even the existence of a stereotype that is damaging. It would be more worthwhile if they would fight against the pressure that many Asian Americans feel to deny their real interests and avoid choosing stereotypical educational and career paths simply because they are afraid of being labeled as "typical...
...Asian American Association (AAA), incooperation with the College Office of RaceRelations and Minority Affairs, is planning aforum on anti-Asian activity at Harvard andnationwide, said AAA co-president Constance I.Chang...