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...part of it,” he said. Tang highlighted one issue of controversy and divergence between Asian Americans and African Americans: the issue of affirmative action in universities. While African Americans statistically benefit, Tang said, Asian Americans are penalized. Tang said that the solution would be to base affirmative action on class. “Asians will benefit eventually from affirmative action that takes class into account,” he said. “They will not benefit from rejection of affirmative action and so-called meritocracy.” James A. Fish...
...most dangerous and at least the most frightened I was over the course of the trip was probably when we were embedded with the troops in Afghanistan. These guys are targets. Al-Qaeda targets them. Taliban targets them. The week before we got to the base where were staying, there was a mortar attack on the base. There was a Taliban ambush on the governor?s convoy. There?s so many things that at any moment these guys could suddenly become target practice. That?s a scary place to be. You?re protected and you feel safe...
...estimated at about 6% in 1949 - rise to an official 40%, a figure that is much higher if millions of undocumented migrant workers are included. That massive immigration has transformed the north of the province, effectively establishing a Han majority and helping to turn what might have been a base for a festering separatist problem into a race-relations issue. Just as Inner Mongolia, now 70% Han, has been Sinicized, so too are Xinjiang and Tibet being flooded with Chinese arrivals. In Tibet, the migration has been assisted by a $4.1 billion railway completed in mid-2006 that connects Beijing...
...Khotan now seem back to normal. The bazaar is open every morning, selling everything from roast lamb and athletic shoes to handwoven local carpets and the famous local white jade. But the almost exclusively Chinese traders whose small shops line the streets between the large People's Liberation Army base and Unity Square are evasive when asked about relations between the races and the events of March 23, after which many of these shops stayed closed for days. One young woman from Sichuan province says it is getting dark outside and she must close her store because...
...What raises the stakes is the crucial role that white working-class voters play in just about every conceivable Democratic scenario for winning in the fall. It is no accident that McCain is also exploiting Obama's comments to go after swing voters and rev up his own embittered base. Small-town Americans "are the people that have fundamental cultural, spiritual and other values that in my view have very little to do with their economic condition," McCain said in a speech at the Associated Press annual meeting in Washington. And in case that didn't hit the spot, McCain...