I wouldn’t go so far as to call the US Snapple commercial above “racist,” but the racial undertones are inescapable here. A war between black tea and yellow lemonade, followed by cool-headed white men watching in satisfaction? Yikes.
Believe it or not, the world doesn’t revolve around Jeremy Lin! Here’s a number of non-Lin related articles, mostly from or about places outside of the Lin-sane US of A:
Australia
All-white Australian television fails the reality test
Recent comments by actors Jay Laga’aia and Firass Dirani about their experiences of racism when working in the mainstream media have been called offensive by commercial television representatives. What I think is offensive is that even today mainstream television hardly reflects Australia’s true diversity. Outcries from actors within the industry need to be matched by outrage from viewers.
Australian universities losing their appeal in “Asian century”
The “comprehensive failure” of Australian universities to engage with Asia is rapidly unravelling their appeal to the biggest market of international students, an expert in Asian education, Professor Greg McCarthy, told a conference on higher education today.
Professor McCarthy, Head of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide, told the Future of Higher Education Conference that Australian schools and universities had neglected Asian studies – and exploited international students – for so long that “they would really struggle to find a way back from here”.
Canada
As immigration booms, ethnic enclaves swell and segregate
While the Chinese who came to Canada in the opening days of Confederation settled into dense urban Chinatowns, recent Chinese immigrants now occupy large sprawling Chinalands: Large, self-contained and lined with restaurants and supermarkets offering the comforts of the old country. Indo-Canadians, South Asians and others can lay claim to similar booming settlements in the outskirts of Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto — and the resource-rich centres of the Prairies. And it is only the beginning. By 2030, according to Statistics Canada, more than 80% of Canada’s population growth is expected to depend on immigration. Ethnic enclaves are set to fill up faster and longer than ever before.
