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"Chocolate City"– Africans seek their dreams in China
This feature article (文章，published Jan 2008) from the Southern Metropolis Daily provides a candid, street-level view of the lives of African traders in China. I translate this article to provide some...
View ArticleA Discussion On Religion in China
This is a continuation of the discussion from the June 14th 2008 blog entry “Chocolate City” – Africans seek their dreams in China“, an article originally published in The Southern Metropolis Daily Jan...
View ArticleWhy are most of the advertising models in China Caucasian?
This is a follow up to DJ’s post on the Official Chinese Olympic Fashion, but from a different angle. Instead of mutual respect between the host and guests, I have some introspective and soul-searching...
View Article(Letter from Joel) How should foreigners feel about being called...
I’m on an extended visit back to my hometown, Vancouver, a Canadian city full of Chinese. Chinese is the second-most commonly used language after English. My wife and I were running around a Chinese...
View ArticleRecent African Americans attacks on Asian Americans, what are your thoughts?
In the last few months, there were a number of brutal attacks on Asian Americans by African Americans. 64-year-old Rongshi Chen, while on his way to a convenient store in San Francisco, was kicked by...
View ArticleWhen the ‘race’ gets strong, everybody wants in
Race is a hot issue anywhere on the planet and has been throughout human history. Waves of European immigrants (not to mention those from other continents) have been shunned upon in America’s past....
View ArticleA Singaporean view on racial harmony
Reader silentvoice recently made these remarks about racial harmony as a Singaporean. His thoughts resonated with me and I would like to highlight it here as a post. Do you think this is achievable in...
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