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Korean Air errs.. when it says their new destination of Kenya has inhabitants who are filled with “primitive energy”. Of course translations are to blame. (USA Today – Kenya)
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Here’s the monument and it’s being asked to be removed by Japanese officials, but that isn’t happening. Some officials maintain that the event didn’t happen as said by many which pushed the matter to a halt. The monument will stay. (NY Times – Monument)
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An amazing photo. The background of the guys on the roof says a lot. Here’s a thoughful essay by Elaine Woo about her own article two decades ago. If you lived in LA, you can sympathize and understand. “Other non-Korean Asian Americans I spoke to back then felt the same confusion. Solidarity? Not when people who looked like us were getting shot or doing the shooting, we thought, with more than a little shame. “Asian American — who generated this term?” a Japanese American friend mused the other day. “We have nothing in common but appearance.”” (LA Times – Elaine Woo)
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Calling people Fucking Chinese? In a match today against Ernests Gulbis, Michael Llodra exclaimed Fucking Chinese to a Korean American female who was routing for Gulbis at the BNP Indian Wells tournament. The incident was further substantiated by a reporter who tweeted it. What will be done by the USTA?
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Is a Screw Ice-Bar better than a cigarette in bed?
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