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Crazy Rich Asians
The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan!When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home and time with the man she might one day marry. What she doesn't know is that Nick's family home happens to look like a palace, that she'll ride in more private planes than cars and that she is about to encounter the strangest, craziest group of people in existence. Uproarious, addictive, and filled with jaw-dropping opulence, Crazy Rich Asians is an insider's look at the Asian jet set; a perfect depiction of the clash between old money and new money - and a fabulous novel about what it means to be young, in love, and gloriously, crazily rich.
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Asians in Britain : 400 Years of History
This is a comprehensive history of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain.Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries.Rozina Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions and perceptions of the British people; the responses of the Asians themselves and their social, cultural and political lives in Britain.This imaginative and detailed investigation asks what it would have been like for Asians to live in Britain, in the heart of an imperial metropolis, and documents the anti-colonial struggle by Asians and their allies in the UK.It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the many different communities that make up contemporary Britain.
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Made-Up Asians : Yellowface During the Exclusion Era
Made-Up Asians traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian.Using specific case studies from European and U.S. theater, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the U.S. context during the Exclusion Era (1862–1940), when Asians faced legal and cultural exclusion from immigration and citizenship.These caricatured, distorted, and misrepresented versions of Asians took the place of excluded Asians on theatrical stages and cinema screens.The book examines a wide-ranging set of primary sources, including makeup guidebooks, play catalogs, advertisements, biographies, and backstage anecdotes, providing new ways of understanding and categorizing yellowface as theatrical practice and historical subject.Made-Up Asians also shows how lingering effects of Asian exclusionary laws can still be seen in yellowface performances, casting practices, and anti-Asian violence into the 21st century.
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Healthy Ageing in Asia : Culture, Prevention and Wellness
Asia is the world’s most populous region and has the highest per capita number of older people in the world.It is also home to the healthy ageing traditions of Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine and the rich regional traditions of Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.This book addresses policies related to ageing, traditional Asian approaches to ageing, an integrated medical system approaches to ageing, ageing in place, and community empowerment. Features Presents information on The 100-Year Life.As a counterpoint to focussing on the frail elderly, Japan is promoting the ‘100-Year Life Society’, a societal model in which all citizens are dynamically engaged and productive throughout the lifespan to reach a healthy 100 years of age. Discusses a framework for optimization of Ageing in Place or staying at home as this is a desired option for most older people. Presents evidence for exercise and movement in healthy aging with guidelines in different states of ageing. Features information on how to improve mental wellbeing in cognitive decline, isolation and loneliness, poor nutrition, and reduced mobility. Creates an understanding of loss and bereavement through processes and the impact of loss. Provides information on developments in health technology to optimize efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of providers. Details health insurance options including coverage for traditional as well as modern medical services, provides models for other countries in the region. Lists coping skills or abilities to help older people to be more independent and in control of their lives. Features information on Asian herbs, spices and foods in healthy ageing across the lifepsan and specifically in addressing age-related health issues. "What is required is a new culture based on the science in which older people are expected to remain, or become increasingly active, physically, cognitively and emotionally maintaining or strengthening a strong sense of purpose.Europe is looking to Asia because this culture is more prevalent there than in Europe.The core theme is not one of ‘caring’ for a passive subset of the population but of promoting lifelong learning because knowledge is the elixir of life." - Professor Sir Muir Gray, Founding Director, The Optimal Ageing Programme & Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford
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How did Asians come to Asia?
Asians are indigenous to Asia, meaning they have been living in the region for thousands of years. The migration patterns of early humans are believed to have originated in Africa and spread to Asia, with different groups settling in various parts of the continent over time. This gradual movement and settlement led to the diverse populations and cultures that exist in Asia today.
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Why do many Asians eat spicy food?
Many Asians eat spicy food because it is deeply ingrained in their culinary traditions and cultural practices. Spices and spicy ingredients are often used in Asian cuisine to add flavor, enhance the taste of dishes, and provide a sense of warmth and comfort. Additionally, some believe that consuming spicy food can help cool the body in hot climates. Moreover, spicy food is also believed to have health benefits, such as boosting metabolism and aiding digestion. Overall, the consumption of spicy food is a significant part of Asian culinary heritage and cultural identity.
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Why do Asians only date other Asians?
It is not accurate to say that Asians only date other Asians. People of all ethnicities and backgrounds can be attracted to and form relationships with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Dating preferences are influenced by a variety of factors such as personal experiences, values, and individual preferences, rather than solely based on race or ethnicity. It is important to avoid making generalizations about people's dating choices based on their ethnicity.
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Do you recognize West Asians as Asians?
Yes, West Asians are recognized as Asians. The term "Asian" encompasses a wide range of ethnic and cultural groups, including those from West Asia. West Asian countries such as Iran, Iraq, and Turkey are geographically located in Asia, and their people are considered part of the Asian continent. It's important to recognize and respect the diversity within the Asian category, which includes West Asians.
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The First Asians in the Americas : A Transpacific History
The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas. Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies.Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, these Spanish trading ships also facilitated the earliest migrations and displacements of Asian peoples to the Americas.Hailing from Gujarat, Nagasaki, and many places in between, both free and enslaved Asians boarded the galleons and made the treacherous transpacific journey each year.Once in Mexico, they became “chinos” within the New Spanish caste system. Diego Javier Luis chronicles this first sustained wave of Asian mobility to the early Americas.Uncovering how and why Asian peoples crossed the Pacific, he sheds new light on the daily lives of those who disembarked at Acapulco.There, the term “chino” officially racialized diverse ethnolinguistic populations into a single caste, vulnerable to New Spanish policies of colonial control.Yet Asians resisted these strictures, often by forging new connections across ethnic groups.Social adaptation and cultural convergence, Luis argues, defined Asian experiences in the Spanish Americas from the colonial invasions of the sixteenth century to the first cries for Mexican independence in the nineteenth. The First Asians in the Americas speaks to an important era in the construction of race, vividly unfolding what it meant to be “chino” in the early modern Spanish empire.In so doing, it demonstrates the significance of colonial Latin America to Asian diasporic history and reveals the fundamental role of transpacific connections to the development of colonial societies in the Americas.
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Asians on Demand : Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism
Does media representation advance racial justice? While the past decade has witnessed a push for increased diversity in visual media, Asians on Demand grapples with the pressing question of whether representation is enough to advance racial justice.Surveying a contemporary, cutting-edge archive of video works from the Asian diaspora in North America, Europe, and East Asia, this book uncovers the ways that diasporic artists challenge the narrow—and damaging—conceptions of Asian identity pervading mainstream media. Through an engagement with grassroots activist documentaries, experimental video diaries by undocumented and migrant workers, and works by high-profile media artists such as Hito Steyerl and Ming Wong, Feng-Mei Heberer showcases contemporary video productions that trouble the mainstream culture industry’s insistence on portraying ethnic Asians as congenial to dominant neoliberal values.Undermining the demands placed on Asian subjects to exemplify institutional diversity and individual exceptionalism, this book provides a critical and nuanced set of alternatives to the easily digestible forms generated by online streaming culture and multicultural lip service more broadly. Employing feminist, racial, and queer critiques of the contemporary media landscape, Asians on Demand highlights how the dynamics of Asian representation play out differently in Germany, the United States, Taiwan, and Spain.Rather than accepting the notion that inclusion requires an uncomplicated set of appearances, the works explored in this volume spotlight a staunch resistance to formulating racial identity as an instantly accessible consumer product.
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Desi Queers : LGBTQ+ South Asians and Cultural Belonging in Britain
Desi Queers reveals how diasporic South Asians have shaped LGBTQ+ movements and communities in Britain, from the 1970s to the present day.Weaving the history of 1980s anti-racism with the emergence of Black LGBTQ+ and feminist coalitions, this book highlights landmark moments in British queer life and culture through South Asian lives, and illuminates British histories of colour through queer politics and creativity. From the Gay Black Group to Haringey Council's pioneering Lesbian and Gay Unit, desi queers were at the centre of anti-homophobic direct action in the 1980s, including the historic 'Smash the Backlash' demo against bigotry.This activism birthed key grassroots groups of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Shakti and Naz, whose founders and early members opened a path of creative resistance to the intersecting violence of racism and homophobia--a path of solidarity echoing through the twenty-first century. These spaces and networks have been a refuge for people doubly marginalised in Britain--by experiences of homophobia within South Asian communities, and by the whiteness of mainstream queer scenes.Drawing on artistic creations, archives and oral history, Desi Queers celebrates rich traditions of social and cultural activism alongside stories of everyday life among Britain's LGBTQ+ South Asians.
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The Geography of Thought : How Asians and Westerners Think Differently
'The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett.He basically gave me my view of the world.'-Malcolm Gladwell"One of the world's leading thinkers" Daily TelegraphWhen Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish.Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment...and the different "seeings" are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians.As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.As a result, East Asian thought is "holistic" - drawn to the perceptual field as a whole, and to relations among objects and events within that field.By comparison to Western modes of reasoning, East Asian thought relies far less on categories, or on formal logic; it is fundamentally dialectic, seeking a "middle way" between opposing thoughts.By contrast, Westerners focus on salient objects or people, use attributes to assign them to categories, and apply rules of formal logic to understand their behaviour.
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What is the general term for the inhabitants of the continent of Asia, if only East Asians are called Asians?
The general term for the inhabitants of the continent of Asia, if only East Asians are called Asians, would be "Asians." While the term "Asian" is often used to specifically refer to people from East Asia, it technically encompasses all the people from the entire continent of Asia. Therefore, the general term for the inhabitants of Asia, regardless of their specific region, would be "Asians."
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Why do Asians think they are not Asians?
Some Asians may not identify strongly with the term "Asian" because it is a broad and diverse category that encompasses a wide range of cultures, languages, and histories. They may feel that their specific cultural or national identity is more important to them than a broader regional label. Additionally, there may be a desire to differentiate themselves from stereotypes or generalizations associated with the term "Asian" in Western societies. Ultimately, individual experiences and perspectives vary, and not all Asians may feel disconnected from their Asian identity.
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Are Arabs Afro-Asians, since they originate from both Africa and Asia?
Arabs are not typically considered Afro-Asians, as the term "Afro-Asian" generally refers to people of mixed African and Asian descent. Arabs are considered to be of Middle Eastern descent, with their origins primarily in the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding areas. While there may be some historical and cultural connections between Arabs and both Africa and Asia, they are generally considered a distinct ethnic and cultural group.
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Are Arabs Afro-Asians, since they come from both Africa and Asia?
Arabs are not typically categorized as Afro-Asians. While it is true that the Arab world spans across both Africa and Asia, Arabs are generally considered a distinct ethnic group with their own unique cultural and linguistic characteristics. The term Afro-Asian is more commonly used to refer to people or cultures that have origins or influences from both Africa and Asia, such as in the case of Afro-Asian literature or art.
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