I went shopping with my 17-year-old niece Joann, who’s a music fan with typical contemporary tastes. Except…. When we were shopping, she bought “Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Greatest Hits, “ a compilation of guitar-driven ‘70s rock that had been part of my generation’s high school and college years. Read more »
When the JPNZ say “JAP”
December 6, 2004 | Author: Gil Asakawa
We’re making great headway in the United States in getting public names changed when they are reflections of an older era when racially charged terms were considered acceptable, or at least, not controversial. Read more »
Thanks, Michelle!
October 18, 2004 | Author: Gil Asakawa
Thank you very much, Michelle Malkin.
Thanks a bunch for writing your book, “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.” Thanks for trying to prove that not only was putting Japanese Americans into U.S. concentration camps during World War II the right thing to do, but also urging that the United States use racial profiling as a tool today, against Muslims. Read more »
Blade runners
August 23, 2004 | Author: Gil Asakawa
Samurai are big in Western pop culture these days, what with Tom Cruise’s hit “The Last Samurai” and of course, Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” movies. Read more »
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July 18, 2004 | Author: Gil Asakawa
You’d think in the 21st century, that racial epithets would be so old-fashioned that anyone using them would be laughed out of the country.
But no, that’s not the case. At issue today, as it has been for decades, is the use of the word “Jap” to describe a person or thing that’s Japanese or Japanese American.
Amazingly, there have been a couple of instances of “Jap” in the media in recent weeks. Read more »
