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Published: 24 December, 2011
Chinese villagers clash with riot police
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DECEMBER 23, 2011 · 8:41 AM
Chinese Restaurant Ad Causes Controversy
An advertising agency has come under fire for a Chinese restaurant advertisement that its critics say is racist. The advert for China Times features photographs of three men – a Sikh, an Arab and a black man – whose eyes have been digitally altered to look Chinese, with the slogan “Brings out the Chinese in everyone”.
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DECEMBER 22, 2011 · 8:11 AM
Study: Racism Prevalent Among Mexican Children, Revealing Cultural Pattern
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The study indicated that Mexicans tend to place higher social value on light skin — a phenomenon some of the children mentioned explicitly. When an interviewer asked one brown-skinned girl why she liked the white doll better than the dark one, she said “because his eyes are beautiful and his race too.”
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DECEMBER 21, 2011 · 1:45 PM
Update: 8 US Eight U.S. Soldiers Charged Over Death Of ‘Racially-Bullied’ Comrade
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Eight U.S. soldiers have been charged in the death of a fellow GI who authorities say apparently shot himself in Afghanistan after being assaulted and taunted with racial insults by his comrades
By CHRIS HAWLEY
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Even before the Army sent him to Afghanistan, supporters say, Pvt. Daniel Chen was fighting a personal war.
Fellow soldiers at a base in Georgia teased him about his Chinese name, crying out "Chen!" in an exaggerated Asian accent. They called him "Jackie Chen," a reference to the Hollywood action star Jackie Chan. People would ask him repeatedly if he was Chinese, even though he was a native New Yorker.
At one point Chen wrote in his diary that he was running out of jokes to respond with.
Then he was sent overseas, and the hazing began: Soldiers dragged him across a floor, pelted him with stones and forced him to hold liquid in his mouth while hanging upside down, according to diary entries and other accounts cited by a community activist.
On Oct. 3, the 19-year-old Chen was found dead in a guardhouse in Afghanistan with what the Army said was apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Fellow soldiers at a base in Georgia teased him about his Chinese name, crying out "Chen!" in an exaggerated Asian accent. They called him "Jackie Chen," a reference to the Hollywood action star Jackie Chan. People would ask him repeatedly if he was Chinese, even though he was a native New Yorker.
At one point Chen wrote in his diary that he was running out of jokes to respond with.
Then he was sent overseas, and the hazing began: Soldiers dragged him across a floor, pelted him with stones and forced him to hold liquid in his mouth while hanging upside down, according to diary entries and other accounts cited by a community activist.
On Oct. 3, the 19-year-old Chen was found dead in a guardhouse in Afghanistan with what the Army said was apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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Study: Multiracial groups and social position, segregation in America
By Amy Lunday, Homewood
Pamela Bennett
The American social hierarchy places people of mixed-race ancestry below whites but above blacks, while additional social stratifications along color lines are simultaneously taking place within the nation’s multiracial groups, according to a Johns Hopkins University sociologist’s study of U.S. Census data.
Pamela R. Bennett, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, studied the residential location of people who identified themselves with more than one racial group when filling out their 2000 and 2010 census forms.
Where people live has long been associated with their social status, and the connection between neighborhoods and racial segregation is well-covered territory for demographers. Bennett took this area of study a step further to see how the connection between race, residence and socioeconomic status applies to people of multiple racial identities—such as black-white, Asian-white or American Indian–white—rather than racial minorities such as African-American, Asian or American Indian.
In her research, Bennett used residential segregation as an indicator of a group’s social position and attempted to determine what the segregation of multiracial groups from both whites and racial minorities says about the social position of multiracial groups. She also wanted to find out what those patterns say about possible shifts in the nation’s racial hierarchy. She first looked at data from the 2000 census, and her findings were published in the April 2011 edition of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies. Bennett then applied her methodology to the recently released 2010 census figures.
In both cases, she found that multiracial groups occupy a social position between blacks and whites, and that the multiracial groups themselves have their own racial stratifications. Bennett found a lesser degree of segregation among people who are of both black and white heritage when compared to those whose identities are fully black. Yet the black-white multiracials appear to be more segregated than Asian-white or American Indian–white multiracials across several segregation measures.
“For patterns of segregation in 2000, taking socioeconomic status into account does not change that picture,” Bennett said. “So while some scholars and activists view official recognition of multiracial identities as a movement toward the deconstruction of race, I caution against such an optimistic narrative for now.”
社説：原発コスト 「安価神話」も崩壊した
事故後、原発コストの見直しを進めてきた政府の「コスト等検証委員会」の試算によると原発の発電コストは最低でも１キロワット時当たり８．９円。これまで電力会社や政府が提示してきたコストの１．５倍となる。
放射性物質の除染や廃炉、損害の費用など今後の事故処理の費用がかさめば、さらにコストは増す。
石炭火力、液化天然ガス（ＬＮＧ）火力が１０円前後であることを思えば、原発のコストの優位性は大きく揺らいだといえる。風力や地熱も条件がよければ原子力に対抗でき、太陽光も２０年後にはそれなりに安くなる可能性が示されている。
政府はこれをきっかけに、「コスト高」を理由に敬遠されてきた再生可能エネルギーへの投資と推進政策を本気になって進めるべきだ。
今回の試算がこれまでと大きく違う点は、建設費や運転維持費、燃料費などに加え、事故リスクや二酸化炭素対応といった社会的コストも勘案した点だ。考えてみれば、これまで事故リスクを度外視してきたことが間違いだった。「安全神話」と「安価神話」はセットになっていたことになる。
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震災後の政治に「不満」８割 朝日新聞世論調査
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朝日新聞社が実施した郵送による世論調査では、東日本大震災後の政治の現状に不満を抱いている人が８０％に達した。一方で原子力やエネルギー政策をめぐる国民投票や、首相公選制への賛成は７割に上った。停滞する政治にいらだち、自分の手で政治を前に進めたいという意識がのぞいた。
震災後の日本の政治にどの程度満足しているかを聞くと、「どちらかといえば不満」５２％、「不満」２８％で、「どちらかといえば満足」１５％、「満足」１％だった。「不満」は無党派層で３６％、２０代で３５％と高めだった。
震災復興と原発事故について民主党政権のこれまでの対応を「評価しない」という人は７１％で「評価する」は２５％にとどまった。民主支持層でも５０％が「評価しない」だった。
Turkey says "racist" bill opens wounds with France
By Pinar Aydinli
ANKARA | Thu Dec 22, 2011 12:22pm EST
(Reuters) - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused France of racism and xenophobia for passing a bill making it a crime to deny genocide, including the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
Erdogan called off all economic, political and military meetings with Paris and cancelled permission for French military planes to land and warships to dock in Turkey, marking a new low in relations between the NATO partners.
"This is politics based on racism, discrimination and xenophobia. This is using Turkophobia and Islamophobia to gain votes, and it raises concerns regarding these issues not only in France but all Europe," he told a news conference, adding Turkey could "not remain silent in the face of this."
Erdogan accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of sacrificing Turkish-French ties to win the votes of ethnic Armenians in France in next year's election, and said the bill limited freedom of speech in France.
"I am asking now if there is freedom of expression and freedom of thought in France, and I will reply myself, no, there is not," he said.
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