Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Urban Outfitters’ ‘Indian Chic’ Prompts Sadly Familiar Outrage - COLORLINES
Urban Outfitters’ ‘Indian Chic’ Prompts Sadly Familiar Outrage - COLORLINES
Interesting article on cultural reappropriation.
Interesting article on cultural reappropriation.
Asian Americans Most Bullied in US Schools: study
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Asian Americans most bullied in US schools: study
WASHINGTON — Asian Americans endure far more bullying at US schools than members of other ethnic groups, with teenagers of the community three times as likely to face taunts on the Internet, new data shows.
Policymakers see a range of reasons for the harassment, including language barriers faced by some Asian American students and a spike in racial abuse following the September 11, 2001 attacks against children perceived as Muslim.
"This data is absolutely unacceptable and it must change. Our children have to be able to go to school free of fear," US Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday during a forum at the Center for American Progress think-tank.
The research, to be released on Saturday, found that 54 percent of Asian American teenagers said they were bullied in the classroom, sharply above the 31.3 percent of whites who reported being picked on.
The figure was 38.4 percent for African Americans and 34.3 percent for Hispanics, a government researcher involved in the data analysis told AFP. He requested anonymity because the data has not been made public.
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