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...sociologist at University of 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...
...attracted an audience from across New England. “As a student here, he showed quite mature views about cross-strait relations,” said Ezra F. Vogel, emeritus Ford II research professor of the social sciences and former director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. “His US tour has been very successful. He has the potential for making great strides in cross-strait relations.” A graduate of Harvard Law School, Ma joked that he almost named his daughter Cambridge Ma “exactly 30 years ago?...
...Blind Students Association that Lurie called for. The Native American group counts three board members with no American Indian ancestry.Students who choose to join organizations based on ethnicities other than their own do so for a variety of reasons. “I’m really interested in Asian culture,” said Frommer, who is currently traveling in Japan and is preparing to write a senior thesis on health care in that country.Pace said that it was his political views that led to his involvement in the Society of Arab Students.As he read about the Middle Eastern...
According to a study published in 1996, black students had settled in the Quad, and Asian students were concentrated in Quincy. Eliot, Kirkland, and Winthrop were known as the “White Triangle.” But in fact, Mather held the highest percentage of white students, following a spate of racist graffiti there in the 1990s...
...that an abusive stepfather is out of their lives, Junelyn finally persuades her daughter to come with her - and then cries with relief. Later, the daughter says she has been on a tuna boat; she spent the previous night in a hotel room with Atto, a 20-year-old Asian sailor from the Sea Chase, who paid her for the night. Under Solomon Islands law, defiling a girl under 13 carries a life sentence, but Atto is unlikely to face prosecution. Junelyn and her daughter just want to return to their home island, and have no plans...