WestCoastRunner

Do you really think we care? We like to expand our horizons and find out what's happening in the rest of the world. And yes, that even includes the United States.

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I'm pretty sure it's because Canadians are intelligent enough to pay attention to world events outside of our own borders.

at first glance this seems harmless.

Well, I know my kid's asian friends were always proud to call themselves 'bananas' and funny enough they were the more racist against the asians 'right off the boat'.

I agree it may be more offensive to another generation. These magazines were started by a younger generation.

I suppose it depends on the generation. My kids grew up with them and are very close to them and they call each other banana including the white kids and no one seems to take offense. It seems to be a common term in the crowd.

No clue what you are talking about. Spell it out for me if you can.

For one thing, it questions whether they are insisting on this covenant because they really believe it or because they will lose millions of donor contributions if they don't. Hard to get behind a university with questionable motives.

It's really hard to say what Harper Lee wants. Here is an interesting tidbit: Watchman is the most preordered book in HarperCollins’s history. Its first print run is two-thirds larger than the final Hunger Games book and more than twice that of the last Game of Thrones installment. HarperCollins is selling the book for up to $20 to bookstores, which means a sold-out first printing could rake in close to $40 million. The novel’s topped Amazon.com’s best-seller list since its release was announced in February and is the website’s most preordered book of any genre in the last four years. Monroeville’s two-room bookstore has presold almost 7,000 copies and is trying to find a loading dock big enough to accept them the night before they go on sale. Here is an interview with Lee’s lawyer, friend, and confidante, Carter.

Except, there have been several attempts to start Asian magazines entitled "Banana". I'm not sure if any of them are still in print, but why would they be called Banana if they were considered derogatory in the Vancouver and NYC community? It may seem dismissive and patronizing to you but apparently not to them. http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/banana-magazine-is-bringing-the-duality-of-asian-american-life-to-the-forefront-456 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/banana-magazine-issue-001#/story http://www.selectism.com/2015/03/10/banana-magazine-001-2015/ "The choice for the name Banana is meant to be an inside joke. For anyone who has ever been called a ‘banana,’ you know that it’s a nickname that has been given to many first generation Asians growing up in western world, like us. It’s not meant to be derogatory, but celebratory. " "The term can be borderline offensive; it implies a limited view of classes of people, and more unfortunately, may impose negative pressure on an individual’s self identity. Knowing precisely this, friends and creative duo Kathleen Tso and Vicki Ho — who are both first-generation Asian Americans — decided to found “Banana,” a new magazine “dedicated to contemporary Asian culture.” The New York-based bi-annual title seeks to turn the misappropriated word into something celebratory by bringing together creative Asian talent from around the world to voice themselves."

I haven't yet bought this novel but will be in the next day or two. Has anyone read it yet? I have heard conflicting reviews including fans horrified as to the possibility that Atticus is racist.

It's pretty sad when Obama has to re-iterate what rape means to reporters in the room.

Does red flagged mean that when you get pissed off because of responses to your posts, that you leave for a while, then come back?

And to be really truthful about this whole thing as I have mentioned in an earlier thread, this is about the Christian right contributing money to this university. Follow the money.......