Word: rudyard
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...Oppenheim's wonderful balancing of both Orientalist stereotypes and the "model minority myth" was a great example of what young white Harvard men can do when they put their minds to it (Column, April 21). Let us relive that wonderful column, reminiscent of the best Orientalist days of Rudyard Kipling and James Clavell: "It looks like the Bushido spirit is alive and well. (Bushido refers to the Japanese warrior ethic.) Based on the recent public debate surrounding the portrayal of minorities in the media, it is not clear whether the use of the word is appropriate…[But] bushido...