Asian Friends: Evening Times: Time to tackle racial disharmony in our city
MOHAMMAD SARWAR MP should be applauded for his comments, in Monday's Evening Times, regarding Asian gangs.The law, they say, is blind, and this should be the approach the police take when dealing with gang disturbances, whatever colour the participants. I grew up in Pollokshields more than 20 years ago and still meet up with many of the Asian friends I had at school. Back then, we played football and cricket together most evenings and got on well. Most of my Asian friends are,...
Asian Friends: SUPPORT BUILDS FOR MULTIRACIAL CENSUS CATEGORY
It was late at night in the Japantown section of San Francisco.A 22-year-old man, who is white and Asian, was socializing with a group of Asian friends. But another group of young Asians that saw the biracial man thought he was "trying to pass for Asian."And to them, that was a good enough reason to push him down and punch him while he screamed.The man, who was attacked last month, is a member of the multiracial rights group in Berkeley, Hapa Issues Forum,...
Asian Friends: Features
Cartoon showing John Howard dressed as an American Sheriff Aw shucks! it's nuthin' to be scared of...we're just here to help our asian friends...In between threatening themwith pre-emptive strikes......
Asian Friends: Beckham: The End?,
Once adored by millions around Asia, David Beckham's popularity is showing signs of going on a downward spiral
DOES David Beckham still do it for you?I tread sacred ground on this topic, having lost Asian friends over my view that, as a footballer, Beckham never was what the region saw in him.But now, people in your part of the world are asking if his star is waning.Well, he still has the blond hair, the blue eyes, the (usually) polite, almost shy English smile. All that, and bankable girl power.It has become an industry - the idolatry, the screaming Japanese, the chocolate Beckham in...
Asian Friends: The Guardian: The curse of being labelled the 'new Zadie'
' C all me or any a ma bredrens a paki again an I'ma mash u an ur family. Int dat da truth, pakis?" threatens Hardjit, one of a group of Asian friends, Sikh, Hindu and Muslim, who are desperate to escape what they see as their inevitable fate working at Heathrow airport. His Asian rude boy patois, which stirred a storm of admirers at the Frankfurt Book Fair last month, is the creation of Gautam Malkani, a 29-year-old journalist at the Financial Times, whose...
