ethnicity

General Nov 22, 2020

Asian Americans hope for more inclusive society under Biden

by Takaki Tominaga

With President Donald Trump having referred to the 'Chinese virus,' many people in the U.S. have felt racial tensions rise.

Our Lives | BLACK EYE Jan 23, 2020

Hoping for a Japanese society in which all of its members can shine

by Baye McNeil

Black Eye columnist Baye McNeil opens the new year with an email from a reader that illustrates the importance of language in dealing with multiracial individuals.

Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Dec 25, 2019

India's protesters: a cross-section of society

by Abhaya Srivastava

Tens of thousands of Indians have taken to the streets to voice their anger over a new citizenship law that they say discriminates against the minority Muslim community. But it is not just Muslims who are protesting — majority Hindus, low-caste Dalits and Parsis are ...

Our Lives | BLACK EYE Dec 16, 2019

The push for change in the 2010s: The first step is recognizing the problem

by Baye McNeil

Japanese companies have been waking up to the idea that offending some of their customers might be bad for business.

Asia Pacific | ANALYSIS Dec 15, 2019

As Modi advances nationalist agenda, India finds rare criticism in U.S.

For the past two decades India has been enthusiastically feted in Washington, with politicians across the spectrum eager to nurture an alliance between the world's two largest democracies. But as Prime Minister Narendra Modi pushes forward his Hindu nationalist agenda, India has suddenly found itself ...

Asia Pacific Dec 3, 2019

China hints U.S. blacklist imminent in threat to trade talks

Chinese state media said Tuesday that the government will soon publish a list of "unreliable entities" that could lead to sanctions against U.S. companies, signaling trade talks between the two nations are increasingly under threat from disputes over human rights in Hong Kong and ...

Entertainment News Nov 21, 2019

Julia Roberts once floated for role as African-American slavery hero Harriet Tubman

A Hollywood movie studio executive once suggested that Julia Roberts could play Harriet Tubman, the 19th century escaped slave who is seen as an African-American icon. Gregory Allen Howard, the co-writer of the new biopic "Harriet," starring Cynthia Erivo, said the idea was floated 25 ...

Asia Pacific Nov 20, 2019

Hopes shattered for Myanmar's Rohingya refugees who fled to Malaysia

Before he flew to Thailand on a fake Bangladeshi passport and then crossed into Malaysia, Mohammed Imran was one of the most influential Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He headed an 18,000-strong camp and represented them on the big stage. In late 2017, at the peak ...

National / Social Issues Nov 1, 2019

Japan's shrine meant to celebrate Hokkaido's Ainu divides them

by Tim Kelly

On a wooded lake shore in southwest Hokkaido, the government is building a modernist shrine that has divided the indigenous Ainu community whose vanishing culture it was designed to celebrate. At a cost so far of ¥20 billion, the Symbolic Space for Ethnic Harmony is ...

Asia Pacific Oct 8, 2019

U.S. puts 28 Chinese security bureaus and companies on economic blacklist over treatment of Uighurs

The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday placed 28 Chinese public security bureaus and companies — including video surveillance company Hikvision and seven other companies — on a U.S. trade blacklist over Beijing's treatment of Uighur Muslims and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities. Those added to ...

Entertainment News Oct 5, 2019

Diahann Carroll, 'Julia' star and trailblazer for black women on TV, dies

Diahann Carroll, a versatile singer and stage actress who quietly blazed a trail for black women on American television in the late 1960s by playing a widowed nurse and single mother in "Julia," died Friday at age 84, said her manager, Brian Panella. Carroll, whose ...