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Affirmative Action cannot be a solution
US supreme court ruled the affirmative action which sets racial quota in college admission is unconstitutional. I, myself think it is not a bad ruling. When a college chooses who is qualified for its students, why does race matter? Grade Point Average, entrance test scores do... Read more ...
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Novel: ”Henoko Bar, Stars and Stripes” Chapter...
The novel is based on this issue and my own experience. In Henoko, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, shaken by the issue of the construction of a new U.S. military base, a female singer time slips to the time in the midst of the Vietnam War. What is the Henoko New Base Issue? What was... Read more ...
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Film: Black ”Annie” Diversity Casting?
A famous classic musical film was remade using a protagonist with a Black skin. Traditionally the protagonist was played by a white girl. Is this part of Hollywood's "Diversity Casting" campaign? Sounds good. Good musical play. Actors sing very well. I was not bothered by the ... Read more ...
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Film “Hidden Figures” breaks the stereotype
It’s been thought women are not good at mathematics and not suitable for engineering jobs. But that kind of notions were proved to be nonsense a long time ago. The film “Hidden Figures” described three Afro-American women working for NASA rocket engineering department as mathematicians, in Jim-C... Read more ...
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Film “East Side Sushi” Can Japanese accept the...
A story of a Mexican American woman who worked in Japanese cuisine restaurant for the purpose of getting a stable job and later came to want to be a sushi chef. The story took place in California. In Japan you can rarely meet a female sushi chef. It is said that women are unfit for the job beca... Read more ...
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Trump is the very American President
The world is shocked by white supremacists' march and subsequent terror attack to its counterprotestors in Charlottesville, Virginia, and President Trump's response to the incident. To me, it was the same day I participated in a peace march protected by the police force and met with nation... Read more ...
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Disney's film ”Song of the South” Not as racist...
The film's portrayal of the 19th century South was unrealistic. Although the story took place after the Civil War, portrayal of Blacks was not bad. Until civil rights era, the old South was wrongly portrayed as if Black people were happy serving white people. In that film that w... Read more ...
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Film”The Butler” Is that a story of Barak Obama?
A story of a man whose father was shot in front of him on the cotton field by a white farmer and later became a house servant of the farmer and then hotel servant and finally was hired by the White House. It is a fiction but it is based on a real butler who served the White House from 1950... Read more ...
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Making a novel based on my alma mater's history
Last month I attended my alma mater's alumni event in Tokyo. A lot of alumni living in Japan gathered at a restaurant exchanging memories and update information of the university. One faculty member from SFSU joined and told me about current situation. I graduated in late 1990's. He said a lot ... Read more ...
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Film”The Help” and ”Precious” Elegant & Rich...
Two films are stories about Afro-Americans in the U.S. Both of them described hard situations that Black people had experienced in the past and maybe even now. "The Help" was a story of Afro-American maids working for white families in Mississippi in 1960's when segregation was very common. Afr... Read more ...