multicultural Archive

  • outsourced

    NBC’s Outsourced Horrifies and Delights Indians and Americans

    Posted on December 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
    On the one hand, it's horrified viewers left comments on Hulu that it's either Indo-blackface from PC-americans, or that Indians have lowered themselves to Hollywood values/morals from Indo-traditionals. However, others note that many of the joke writers are Indian and work best with people who are familiar with at least a bit of Indian cultures such as that Hindus have more gods than Pokemon.

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  • Saxon math favored by homeschoolers

    Why does everybody think only Asians are better at math?

    Posted on November 19, 2010 | 8 Comments
    Surely because she’s Asian – that’s what many people would say. Perhaps it could be also that she is more used to focusing, and therefore is able to recall the mathematical principles that all the 8th graders had learned in past years, (to be forgotten quickly and decisively), and put them all together and applied properly. Perhaps her parents insist that she do her best, rather than dismiss their children's poor achievement in math by saying silly things like, "Oh, I was never that good in math,"

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