WTF, Uggaversity
Oct. 22nd, 2008 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fleaIs this article, on the front page of today's student paper, kinda racist/xenophobic or what?
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/10/22/Sports/Freshman.Brings.Japanese.Heritage.To.Team-3498317.shtml
I mean, she has a funny name! She's short! She plays volleyball!
Folks, she is an American citizen who was born here and lived her whole life here and sounds pretty much like any other student-athlete from the Atlanta suburbs. She just happens to be Japanese-American. Did the whole profile have to be about that? Are there so few Asian-Americans here that this is newsworthy?
http://media.www.redandblack.com/media/storage/paper871/news/2008/10/22/Sports/Freshman.Brings.Japanese.Heritage.To.Team-3498317.shtml
I mean, she has a funny name! She's short! She plays volleyball!
Folks, she is an American citizen who was born here and lived her whole life here and sounds pretty much like any other student-athlete from the Atlanta suburbs. She just happens to be Japanese-American. Did the whole profile have to be about that? Are there so few Asian-Americans here that this is newsworthy?
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Date: 2008-10-22 05:01 pm (UTC)Although it's a little hard for me to gauge what my parents went through because their experience was so different from mine. They weren't actually minorities, growing up in Hawaii. And they met in a Hawaii club at the college, so it seems like they always had Japanese friends and relatives around.
On the other hand, I never did, to the point where when my relatives were hassling me about dating once, I told them I'd be happy to marry a nice Japanese-American boy if I could ever meet one that wasn't my cousin.