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Daily Archives: March 7, 2009

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“You’re American? You don’t look like one…”

OPINIONBy Pacific TiesMarch 7, 2009Leave a comment

When I was an exchange student in Hong Kong two years ago, I learned that in Asia, some people (usually the older generation) assume that to be “American” is to be white. In Hong Kong, I chatted with some elderly Chinese and told them I was an exchange student from the U.S.   “But you don’t look American,” they protested.  I…

Newsprint: Study Brings to Light the Obama Effect

OPINIONBy Pacific TiesMarch 7, 2009Leave a comment

Two university professors at Florida State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a decrease in racial prejudice that occurred during the Nov. 4 election. They call this the Obama Effect. A series of studies and experiments done with 300 non-black (white, Asian or Hispanic) students, designed to measure stereotyping and implicit prejudice, has found…

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