Tag: race
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How to answer poor questions
Questions that seem like conversation but offer no real dialogue are a bummer to any relationship. Did you go broke shopping at the mall? Where are you really from? Didn’t you eat the sushi? I couldn’t make up these questions even if I wanted to. Now, it’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with…
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Ethnicity and Identity
What a heavy topic! And I dare to tackle it here. At least a part of it. I finished up the book by anthropologist, Manning Nash, entitled The Cauldron of Ethnicity in the Modern World. And I drew so much insight from it on both ethnicity and identity. First, ethnicity can be difficult to define…
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Handling poor questions
Ever wonder why you’re annoyed by some questions? It could be because of how it’s been asked and then you feel the obligation of answering it because you don’t want to be rude. Or you know that answering it won’t lead to any sort of great conversation. And that’s basically a dead end. Even when…
Tara Ramachandra 