The term “third world” has com to refer to developing nations in our global community. But that wasn’t always the case. During the cold war, the political globe really was divided into three worlds– the capitalists, the communists, and everyone else. Many of the peoples and countries included in ‘everyone else’ were ex-colonies, still choosing [...]
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Third World Everything
Posted in Basic Definitions, tagged third world on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the Nature of Cultural Exchange
Posted in Basic Definitions, tagged transnationalism on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I actually got to write an email today that went like this: Have you ever heard of the term transnationalism? Its the idea that when people migrate between countries, they don’t simply go in one direction. Rather, people, products, money, ideas, and culture are constantly moving back and forth across borders. Anime is a very simple [...]
In Between Rocks and Hard Places
Posted in Basic Definitions, tagged intersectionality on May 17, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In defining Asian American, we often begin with common experiences– physical colonization, economic imperialism, discriminatory immigration policies, overlap of cultural values like strong familial obligations, racialization as the foreign/exotic, etc. (leave a comment if any of those sound interesting)– and then move towards the mind boggling diversity of experiences within the community. In unraveling this [...]
