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[BRIEF NOTE] More on Korea, and Korean Immigrations

In January, I made a brief posting about the Korean diaspora. Recently, in South Korea there has been some publicity about the Korean-Chinese. This article from the Korea Herald goes into more detail on the subject of the ethnic Korean migrants from China now living in South Korea who have been affected by a crackdown on illegal immigrants.

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The Weekly Update

Some interesting, if minor, things, have happened over the past week. I bought the West Side Story original scrore along with the 7th edition of the State of the World atlas Monday; Tuesday, I quite enjoyed Don DeLillo’s short story “The Angel Esmerelda,” which was another decent story that appropriately and enjoyable combined his anti-capitalism and anti-materialism with narrative; Wednesday, I went to the class I’m TAing for and delivered the essays I checked (a median of 67, incidentally), seeing a flaming Leonid on leaving; Thursday was my last class in the semester;

I’ve added some links: Phil Hunt’s Cabalamat blog and Fabian‘s blog can be found under SHWIer blogs, The Invisible Adjunct to non-SHWIer blogs, 8-bit Theatre as another comic (thanks mikedavsi!), an article on an alien species known as the Sung for the 2300AD setting (it’s a hobby).

Wyatt project has gone even worse than I expected. I think I got an extension, but this paper is killing me. I just had such a difficult time getting the thesis to resolve, and have such a hard time with the application of the thesis to Wyatt’s poetry … Ack. I hate this. The other papers, for Literary Theory and for New York City Literature, should go much better–they concern topics I’m actually interested in.

Oh, and I’m missing a pair of glasses. Grr.

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[BRIEF NOTE] On Alliance Homophobia

It might not be defeated–my thanks to Craig for linking to the article on Spencer–but at least it’s not officially approved:

Alliance fires MP for anti-gay comments

Spencer said Trudeau was wrong to make it legal

A Brief Update

Well, the Orientalism presentation went quite nicely. My thanks to Conrad, Jonathan, lesslyn, and others for helping to push me towards a more accurate view of Said.

Now, on to Wyatt’s court poetry. This is going to be an all-nighter.

[ARTICLE] Middleman Minorities

From Prospect Magazine, the article “Vengeful majorities”:

December 2003

In many poor countries, markets concentrate wealth in the hands of prosperous ethnic minorities. In these places, democracy can be an engine of vengeance

Amy Chua

One morning in September 1994, I received a call from my mother in California. In a hushed voice, she told me that my Aunt Leona, my father’s twin sister, had been murdered in her home in the Philippines, her throat slit by her chauffeur. My mother broke the news to me in our Hokkien Chinese dialect. But the word “murder” she said in English, as if to wall off the act from the family through language.

The murder of a relative is horrible for anyone, anywhere. My father’s grief was impenetrable; to this day, he has not broken his silence on the subject. For the rest of the family, though, there was an added element of disgrace. For the Chinese, luck is a moral attribute, and a lucky person would never be murdered. Like having a birth defect, or marrying a Filipino, being murdered is shameful.

Break

I’ll be taking a break from LJ for a while.

I’ll see you all later.

UPDATE: School’s providing enough writing projects; LJ adds too many to the fire. Hmm, mixed metaphors, but anyway. 🙂