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What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag
Wesley Yangnymag.com
You don’t like how you look, how you sound. You think your Asian features are undefined, like God started pinching out your features and then abandoned you. You hate that there are so many Asians in the room. Who let in all the Asians? you rant in your head. Instead of solidarity, you feel that you are less than around other Asians, the boundaries
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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
global cosmopolitanism, widely
Homi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
Global cosmopolitans of this ilk frequently inhabit ‘imagined communities’ that consist of silicon valleys and software campuses; although, increasingly, they have to face up to the carceral world of call-centres, and the sweat-shops of outsourcing. A global cosmopolitanism of this sort readily celebrates a world of plural cultures and peoples loca
... See moreHomi K. Bhabha • The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics)
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.