Koreans of mixed race tackle a prejudice
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SEOUL -- For years, Lee Yu Jin kept her secret. Whenever anybody asked -- and they did all the time as her celebrity as an actress and model spread -- she simply denied the rumors. No, she was not a foreigner. She was Korean.
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Although a smattering of Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Indians, Thais, and others may crow about seeing their kind sitting in prominent positions in corporations and organizations in the USA, these accomplishments become mere cultural high-fives and ritualistic chest-thumping goaded and impishly patronized by 'mainstream society' - the milder and gentler term for the white-dominated populace.
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South Korea is set to cleanse gender   stereotypes from its school textbooks, where women have long   been depicted as housekeepers and men as the breadwinners.
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TOKYO -- During her many years working for a major Japanese trading company, Michiko Koseki said, she and her female co-workers have suffered a series of indignities both small and large. But the 59-year-old clerical worker was nevertheless shocked a few years ago when her company suddenly decided...
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The growing number of Chinatowns in South Korea have not progressed very far because of a host of obstacles including a shortage of Chinese residents.
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A group of 29 people identifying themselves as North Koreans have sought asylum in a South Korean school in the Chinese capital, Beijing.
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A controversy over too much skin points to the chasm dividing puritan official morality from the lives of real Chinese.
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There is a disturbing trend in South Korea: people using the Web to trade tips about suicide and, in some cases, to form suicide pacts.
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Chinese gamers react angrily to a Japanese video game they say besmirches the heroine of a classic Chinese novel.  Whether it does or not, this latest cross-cultural tiff does nothing to help the historically lousy relations between these two Asian nations.
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South Koreans are more and more   disenchanted with North Korea, with a growing number losing   enthusiasm for unification and believing their Stalinist   neighbor could start a war, a survey released on Friday said.
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Relations among African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans are fraught with tension and negative stereotypes, but the three groups share core values and a desire to get along better, according to a poll released yesterday by the nonprofit group New America Media.
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The alleged racist treatment of a Bollywood star on British television has put the spotlight on prejudice in India, where the ancient caste system still creates divisions and men openly declare a preference for fairer-skinned wives.
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North Korea is well practiced in getting some of what it wants through provocation. Bullying through a bullhorn has worked time and again for a small nation with an outsized military force and an even bigger capacity for bluster and threat.
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Military officers from North and South Korea engaged in a shoving match and a war of words Thursday over their disputed sea border, on the second day of talks dominated by the thorny issue.
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South Korea has become one of the worldâs most credit-card-friendly countries. With cards everywhere, however, the challenge is to attract consumers.
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A difference of opinion about the genetic basis of race has emerged between scientists at the National Human Genome Center at Howard University and some other geneticists.
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The head of a race equality body has said many black and Asian people in the UK feel they do not belong outside towns and cities.