Diaspora(n.): the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. How is it that we find ethnically similar people in vastly different areas? Diaspora. Simply put, diaspora refers to people moving outwards from their home country into other nations. Diaspora can also refer to the people who have moved…
Whirr! Whirr! You sit up straight, straining your ear, trying to figure out whether the noise you just heard was a figment of your imagination or not. Crunch! Crunch! You rush outside. A couple of bulldozers are tearing your precious house down. You signal violently to them, but they don’t listen. You scream at them,…
Yellow Peril (n.): a metaphor representative of the danger and threat to Western civilization East Asian peoples hold from an expansion of power and influence Although “threat” and “danger” are common words associated with the term “Yellow Peril,” the above definition does not fully expand on the often racist connotations that accompany this term. In…
I still remember the first time that I saw Mo, or Mohini Banarjee, on Disney Channel’s Lemonade Mouth. This was the first time that I ever saw an Indian character on television who was not the socially awkward, nerdy sidekick of the white main characters. She was confident; she stood up for herself; and she…
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“Dad, I want to be an actor. No son, it’s pronounced doctor!”. This phrase coupled with a picture of a stern-looking Asian man is a meme I’ve seen circulating the internet ever since I was in middle school. It’s definitely humorous and may even seem like an exaggeration to many people, but in some Asian…