“All the girls in Vietnam are aggressive. They attack!”
I’m sure many members of the Vietnamese diaspora can relate to Belgian singer Phạm Quỳnh Anh’s “Hello Vietnam” (“Bonjour Vietnam” in the French original): All I know of you is all the sights of war. A...
View ArticleXenophobia and racism against Chinese and Koreans in Argentina
Anti-Asian sentiment and rhetoric circulate widely in Argentina. As an illustrative example, yesterday I searched for “chinos Argentina” (Chinese people Argentina) on Facebook. Here is the first page...
View ArticleRacist nicknames, wearing a burqa, North Koreans in LA, and what white people...
What white people will never know about travel Two days ago Tammi Jonas tweeted this blog post by Ernest “Fly Brother” White II on “8 things white people will never know about travel.” I agree with...
View ArticleEthnicity, citizenship, language, and privilege – a travel story from Taiwan
Last night I got a wonderful e-mail from a Korean American reader living in Peru who said that this blog was helping her make sense of her experience there. Thanks again for making my day! Since I...
View ArticleBeing an Asian woman in South America
My friend Miyuki Baker (“a queer, multi-racial/lingual female mixed-media artist”) has been traveling around South America as part of her year on the Watson Fellowship. She made a sketched blog post...
View ArticleWhere is home?
I just returned from a brief research trip in Taiwan, where I met a number of second generation Taiwanese American students of a wide range of ages who had come to their ethnic homeland for summer...
View ArticleAccents, foreign-ness, and social distance
As an American traveling around Australia, I haven’t encountered any difficulty being understood. Pronounced Rs at the end of syllables and odd Californian vowel sounds don’t faze anyone. Australians...
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