I think acculturation is quite important. If I tried to say that I was Russian everybody around here (here, Russia, not here, LBO-talk) would laugh at me, despite my 7-year residence. Yoshie is no more Westernor a US-er than you are.
Anyway I think it is safe to assume that she has been to Asia.
--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Chris:
>
>
> Yoshie is Japanese!!
>
>
> [WS:] I though she lives in Ohio, no? I do not
> think that parental ancestry
> matters that much, unless one plays stupid identity
> politics. I believe
> that she chose to live in the US, get educated,
> naturalized here, etc. -
> just as I did - and that makes one a "northern
> intellectual," at least in my
> book. "Self loathing" referred to knee jerk
> criticism of anything Western
> or American.
>
> As I said before, this is, on a balance, a rather
> good place to live,
> despite shortcomings. This needs to be brought into
> the picture before any
> criticism is launched on the pain of losing
> credibility and sounding
> demagogic and ridiculous.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit!
ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ!
___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html