USA beats Hungary 12-9 for the first time in a decade. Tony motherfucking Azevedo.
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It can be used as a “compliment” for Chinese who are very knowledgeable about America’s culture, or as an insult for Chinese who have “lost their pride” from their parent’s country. When used pejoratively, the term serves as a device to discriminate and separate Chinese-Americans as a class different from those born in Chinese speaking countries. However, this sort of categorization oversimplifies the social realities and identities of many Chinese-Americans. It is often overlooked that innumerable Chinese-Americans are still connected to their parents’ heritage, and it perhaps too quickly valorizes an attachment to an ancestor culture in favor of assimilation and integration within a new one.
whilst procrastinating immunology studies by studying my ethnic identity on wikipedia
sent to krista chan:
I had the greatest dream just now. You, me and the rest of the china team were rapping to a classroom full of Chinese students. And we all had awesome rapper names. Can’t really remember the deets but I kno sarah lin closed up the rap by going “wooka wooka, Slin Shady”. I laughed myself awake. We should make this dream a reality.
In Focus: Glimpses of Humanity in Choreographed North Korea
In a massive spectacle held in Pyongyang over the weekend, North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, addressed an audience of thousands. His appearance was part of a week-long celebration of the birth of the nation’s founder Kim Il Sung. Kim Jong Un, who was recently named “supreme commander,” promised to continue a military-first policy, despite chronic economic and food shortages. Foreign photojournalists invited for the celebrations have been sending back hundreds of images — but viewers back home must work to read between the lines. As you view these images, keep in mind that the photographers are strictly limited, only able to capture pre-approved subjects in sanctioned settings. These shapes, colors, and choreographed formations form the image North Korea wants to project. But even photographs like these can give us glimpses of an individual among the masses, inspiring empathy or curiosity. As we look at these members of a long-impoverished, tightly controlled society, we can only study their faces and imagine what they might truly be thinking.
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Look at the top photo. None of the dancers are smiling.
Peter Goodspeed: Dying as a political act: Centuries-old Buddhist tradition of self-immolation continues in China
“This was not the random act of a disturbed individual, but rather a single manifestation of a deeply rooted set of ideas and ideals in Chinese Buddhism that blossomed again and again in the history of pre-modern China.”
Photo: Tibetan exile Janphel Yeshi, 27, runs as he is engulfed in flames after he set himself on fire to protest an upcoming visit to India by Chinese President Hu Jintao, March 26, 2012, in New Delhi. Yeshi suffered life-threatening burns. (AFP/Getty Images)
