Christoff wrote:what is an asian indian? south asian? and doesn't cover Pakistani or Bangladesh too?
Asian Indian as in similar to American Indian I would think.
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Christoff wrote:what is an asian indian? south asian? and doesn't cover Pakistani or Bangladesh too?
At least 13 of the more than 70 centenarians whose whereabouts have been found to be unknown are foreign nationals, indicating flaws in the country's resident registry system, according to a Kyodo News tally based on inquiries to local governments.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:The University of Washington's application:
Mock Cockpit wrote:Seems like they're checking the whereabouts of everyone over 65. They came from the city office looking for the old man today and despite assurances he was very much alive they insisted on confirming with their own eyes. Your taxes at work.
Ganma wrote::rofl:
Typical Japan ove-reaction to a hyped up news story. Still it'll be interesting to see how deep the scamming goes.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Yes, but the instructions say to choose a race and don't mention ethnicity do they? Besides, Asian American wouldn't really be a race either would it since that would mean all non-American Asians are a different race. By the way, the typical less detailed applications also include Hispanic without multiple categories. Is an Argentinian with pure Italian roots the same race as a 100% native Mexican? Do you think Saudi Arabians consider themselves to be the same race as Anglo Saxons? Arabs are usually calssified as White on the race section of college applications.
You seem to think that race is some sort of objective classification. It's not. Race is determined by the culture and time that you live in. The West divided the world into three races (black, white and yellow) initially. Then they decided to add some more categories later. If Japanese and Korean people consider themselves to be a seperate race they are within the context of their cultures. The Pan Asian identity was the result of Western colonization and immigration to Western countries.
Did you ever see the US trailer for the first Harold & Kumar movie?
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"That Asian guy from American Pie and that Indian guy from Van Wilder". That wouldn't work in the UK would it? If you say Asian there most people would think of Kumar first. In the US it's the opposite. A lot of Americans don't even consider Indians, Pakistanis, etc. to be Asian.
I remember when I was on JET they had a workshop at Tokyo Orientation on being Asian in Japan. Not being Asian I didn't attend but my Chinese-American friend did. She was shocked to see so many South Asians there. The Asian Americans who made the workshop aparently were too because it was obviously aimed at people from East Asia who could be mistaken for Japanese. This aparently pissed off some of the British Asians who were expecting something very different. Even in English speaking Western countries racial identity is not consistent.
TennoChinko wrote:NINJA SAY WHAT?
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Ganma wrote:Homeless?:D
According to a tally by The Asahi Shimbun, as of Thursday, at least 279 people aged 100 or older have been confirmed as missing by local authorities across the nation. The figure includes those who have been listed for police searches by kin or others.
Of the total, 112 were reported in Hyogo Prefecture, 88 in Osaka Prefecture, 21 in Kyoto Prefecture and 13 in Tokyo, reflecting the alienation facing many elderly people in large urban areas.
By contrast, no missing senior citizens were reported in 26 prefectures in the Tohoku or Hokuriku regions of the main Honshu island, where traditional community ties remain relatively strong.
Yokohammer wrote:There was the case a few years ago of a couple of guys who wheeled their dead friend into the pension office on an office chair, saying that the guy was "feeling ill and just sleeping" in an attempt to withdraw his pension money.
I'm pretty sure this actually happened, and that I'm not just imagining it.
Christoff wrote:I would loved to have been present when they were sitting around the kotatsu hatching their plan.
Yokohammer wrote:It turns out this particular case happened in New York, so there probably wasn't a kotatsu involved.
I finally found a reference ... here ...
Ganma wrote:What a thoughtful son.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100823/lf_nm_life/us_japan_elderly
Ganma wrote:What a thoughtful son.
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