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...sermonizing. Didier Braun Antony, France Can you imagine any Canadian cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness and political correctness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events. The country needs to get rid of its outmoded approach...
...attended an international school in Guatemala all of my life, where identity was more about where you were from than what color your skin was. Cesar and Ron were not black; they were Dominican and Bajan-Israeli. Peter, Anabel, and Miho were not Asian; they were Korean, Taiwanese, and Japanese. I was Guatemalan, born and raised, and the fact that I was white was secondary...
...times, people even decided that I had some Asian blood. You have Asian eyes, they said, after I told them my father was born in Taiwan. To this day, I’d have trouble convincing a lot of them otherwise...
After that moment in Annenberg, there was no question in my mind that race dominates social interactions at Harvard. Many of my black, Asian, or Latino acquaintances could have told me that, but as a white male, I was not being defined by the color of my skin. It doesn’t matter how may times I attend the Monday meetings of the Black Men’s Forum. People are not going to see that on the street, in class, or when I go out at night. Even when I wear a tie for BMF?...
...agenda has been set,” said Glazer. “My job and Clay’s job is to make sure it’s business as usual.” In other business, the UC lent its lobbying support to the South Asian Studies Initiative, which advocates centralizing resources, expanding offerings, and creating a certificate program in South Asian Studies. The council also passed two other resolutions, one concerning the creation of a student advisory committee for Harvard construction projects and the other calling for the establishment of a formal process for administering the Student Activities...