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	Asian (people) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Those of East Asian origin, such as the Chinese or Vietnamese (referred to as Oriental in the UK and the Commonwealth), are usually not included in the term.
		When "Asian" is used as a shorthand for "East Asian" or "South Asian", Russians are usually not included; one exception being the Kalmyks, the only Buddhist Asians living in East Europe in the republic of Kalmykia, which is a federal subject of the Russian Federation.
		Bobby Jindal, who is of Indian descent, would be categorized as an "Asian or Asian British" by the 2001 UK Census, the 2006 Australian Census as a "Southern and Central Asian" and an "Asian" on the 2000 USA Census.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian (1854 words)

	Asian Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An Asian Canadian is a Canadian of Asian ancestry.
		Asian Canadians can either be born in Canada or be born overseas and later come to be citizens of Canada.
		Chinese Canadian (1,094,700): 8th largest of all Canadian ethnicities, and the largest asian group in all provinces except Manitoba, where the Filipino Canadians are the largest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_Canadian (551 words)

	Japanese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese Americans are a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans.
		In 1974, George R. Ariyoshi of Hawaii became the first Asian American to be elected governor in the United States.
		Patsy T. Mink was the first woman of Asian descent to serve in Congress.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_American (2512 words)

	Overseas Chinese - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Chinese in southeast Asian countries have often established themselves in commerce and finances.
		During this period, the People's Republic of China tended to view overseas Chinese with suspicion as possible capitalist infiltrators and tended to value relationships with southeast Asian nations as more important than gaining support of overseas Chinese, and in the Bandung declaration explicitly stated that overseas Chinese owed primary loyalty to their home nation.
		Various sub-ethnic groups include: Chinese American, American-born Chinese, Chinese Argentines, Chinese Australians, Chinese Vietnamese, Chinese British, Burmese Chinese, Chinese Canadian, Chinese Cayman Islander, Chinese Cuban, Chinese Filipino, Indonesian Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Chinese Mauritian, Chinese Peruvian, Chinese Puerto Rican, Chinese Singaporean, Chinese South African, and Chinese Thai.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/o/v/e/Overseas_Chinese_da26.html (1001 words)

	The Emergence of "Asian Canadian Literature"
		Lowe argues that "[u]nderstanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized foundations of both the emergence of the United States as a nation and the development of American capitalism" (ix).
		Asian immigrants and Asian Americans have not only been "subject to" immigration exclusion and restriction but have also been "subjects of" the immigration process and are agents of political change, cultural expression, and social transformation.
		This is precisely the challenge facing critics of "Asian Canadian literature" at this moment: we must continue to build arguments out of specific local archives while at the same time making the bolder claims needed to address broader questions of exclusion, racialization, and diaspora.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/engl392/492a/articles/beauregard.html (2004 words)

	Asian Wild Rose » Blog
		According to Reynolds, the Asian race is a result of Martian and aboriginal Earthlings interbreeding more than half a million years ago.
		According to a Canadian Press report, the book is the result of a sickening sight of a man’s body being dumped from a bridge in the course of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence sparked off by Indira Gandhi’s killing.
		In 2000, Badami received the Marian Engel Award, instituted by the Writers’ Trust of India to honour a woman Canadian novelist who is in the middle of her career.
	www.asianwildrose.ca /?cat=1 (1422 words)

	The Asianadian \| Volume 6, Issue 2: Spring/May 1985
		All the Asian lesbians whom i have gotten to know are in no way a threat to other Asian lesbians, or to the larger lesbian community.
		Many South Asian women workers also face the barrier of not being fluent in English, a fact that hinders communication with other Canadians and restricts their access to such information as labour laws and rights ar work.
		Consequently, many South Asian women end up as assembly line workers, garment workers, helpers in ethnic restaurants and in a variety of other low-paid jobs which are marked by lack of security and hazards to health.
	faculty.washington.edu /chanant/asianadian/volumes/six/issue2 (9752 words)

	AsianWeek: Washington Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But unlike Asian Americans, Asian Canadians are represented on most every level of government and have held political offices all the way up to cabinet positions.
		By February, the Canadian Parliament passed a bill declaring that all Japanese living within 100 miles of the West Coast be relocated, and between March and October, 22,000 Japanese Canadians, three-quarters of whom were naturalized Canadians, were moved to specific areas under the War Measures Act.
		Looking at the demographics, however, the younger generation of Asian Canadians has political views as diverse as their cousins in the United States, which is why Kamaldeep Sangha is on the Executive Committee of the Ontario New Democratic Party and Victor Lau is Fundraising Chair of the Green Party of Canada.
	www.asianweek.com /090999/news_washj.html (1103 words)

	Asian-Nation : Asian American History, Demographics, & Issues :: Anti-Asian Racism & Violence
		It resulted in the formation of numerous Asian American community organizations and coalitions whose purpose was to monitor how Asian Americans were treated and to mobilize any and all resources available to fight for justice.
		Asian Americans saw firsthand how anti-Asian prejudice and hostility operated, both at the personal physical level and at the institutional level.
		It found that South Asians were the most targeted among Asian Americans and that vandalism was the most common form of anti-Asian discrimination.
	www.asian-nation.org /racism.shtml (2051 words)

	Asian Canadian Labour Alliance
		Asian children were discouraged from attending school, professional jobs were closed to all Asians, the vote was denied them, and economic problems were blamed on their willingness to work hard and for less than their white counterparts.
		Because the South Asians lived in a different part of the city, their community was spared the violence of the riot.
		While South Asian families were allowed to reunite after 1919, wives and children of the Chinese men were not allowed to join their husbands and many of the early pioneer men were left bachelors in Canada for the next 20-plus years.
	www.buzzardpress.com /acla/history/early_asian_pioneers.html (4313 words)

	Asian Wild Rose » Blog Archive » Canadian Values or Else?
		In his study, which mostly targets and the fear of Muslim extremists in Canada, he suggests that new immigrants must respect ‘Canadian Values’ or else be expelled and be stripped of Canadian citizenship.
		What I think Canada is looking to avoid is the “Eurabia” mess that turned France and the Netherlands into immigration policy disasters, but apparently, have not found a way to phrase it more coherently in the context of an immigration policy statement.
		By way of personal example: my fiancee is a chinese born Canadian, but her parents are immigrants from Hong Kong.
	www.asianwildrose.ca /?p=86 (560 words)

	Ryerson Library - Asian Heritage in Canada - History
		Asian Canadian Symposium (7th : 1986 : University of Manitoba).
		Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing, and Resistance.
		South Asian Canadians: Current Issues in the Politics of Culture.
	www.ryerson.ca /library/events/asian_heritage/history.html (996 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: Asian: Asian-Canadian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Asian Canadian - News and information related to various Asian cultural, artistic, educational and community groups based in Canada.
		Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (ACWW) - Mandate is to assist writers, artists, and performers of Asian descent.
		Gay and Lesbian Asians of Montreal (GLAM) - Serves as a support and social group for gays and lesbians residing in the Montreal area.
	dmoz.org /Society/Ethnicity/Asian/Asian-Canadian (488 words)

	Asian Canadian
		Asians and Asian diasporic communities met to organize to fight racism, develop anti-racism strategies and action plans and to network with anti-racism NGOs.
		The Chinese Canadian National Council has convened this conference to establish a national network of Asian Canadian communities and activists and to develop concrete action plans for five prioritized subject areas: immigration and security; employment; media; racial profiling; and education.
		This important national conference is open to all participants, but we strongly encourage anti-racism activists, artists, representatives from national and local Asian Canadian organizations, scholars of the Asian diasporic experience, and settlement service agencies to attend.
	www.freewebs.com /panasian2 (264 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Discount Breast Surgery Turns Deadly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Illegal clinics are targeting Asian Canadian women with their low cost and dangerous procedures.
		Canadian police have issued a warning about a bizarre world of secret underground cosmetic surgery clinics that target Asian Canadian women who want bigger breasts, fuller lips and enhanced eyes — all at discount prices.
		Collin Hong, a Toronto area plastic surgeon, says he often sees Asian women who’ve gone to such unlicensed clinics and had foreign substances, such as non-sterile injected silicone or even window caulking, injected into their lips, eyes or breasts.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_05_11/news5_plasticsurgerydeath.html (673 words)

	Canadian Born Chinese, jook,sing, hollow bamboo, Asian women, White, Jook Sing
		Yes, like many other middle class Asians, I had piano lessons as a child, but in no way was I a prodigy on the piano.
		So I'm a liberal arts major in a university that isn't in town (most of the Chinese grads from my high school go to university here in town) and is a traditionally more "preppy/white-Felicity/Dawson's Creek" type school (as opposed to the more "hip" HK Chinese who live in Toronto).
		It was like that in summer camp (there were a number of Asians at music camp, but they were all in a strings program while I was in musical theater) and in most of my drama classes at university.
	www.asianwhite.org /Immigration/jooksing.html (894 words)

	Amazon.fr : Anti-Asian Violence in North America: Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the first time, voices of Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have been brought together to discuss the multidimensional impact of racial crime in their lives and through their work as attorneys, teachers, community activists, students, or business professionals.
		She teaches university courses on Asian religions and on Asian American women, and has been a community advocate since the 1979.
		Victor M. Hwang is the managing attorney of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, directing its Hate Violence/Race Relations project, and co-authoring its annual, national audit on anti-Asian violence.
	www.amazon.fr /Anti-Asian-Violence-North-America-Reflections/dp/074250459X (521 words)

	Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Asian Cooking Demonstrations – May 6, 13, 20, and 27 at The Bay downtown store, 4th floor from 1:00 – 2:00 pm.
		Representatives from the various levels of governments will be invited to open Asian Heritage Month.
		Asian Canadian Festival at The Forks Plaza and cultural demonstrations at The Forks Market - Sunday, May 21, 2006 and Monday, May 22, 2006.
	www.asianheritagemanitoba.ca /index.php?id=events (272 words)

	Multiculturalism - Asian Heritage Month
		This acknowledges the long and rich history of Asian Canadians and their contributions to Canada.
		Asian Heritage Month is an ideal occasion for all to celebrate the beauty and wisdom of various Asian cultures.
		Canadians are invited to take part in the festivities that commemorate the legacy of Asian Canadians and their many contributions which have helped Canada to become the multicultural and diverse nation it is today.
	www.canadianheritage.gc.ca /progs/multi/asian-asiatique/index_e.cfm (152 words)

	Asian Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This study analyzes the manner in which important Asian American and Asian Canadian writers appropriate the short-story cycle as a tool for both self-representation and empowerment.
		Twelve of today's most prominent South Asian writers across the globe talk candidly about their work, while Kanaganayakam complements the picture with salient features of the media, critical, and public responses to their work.
		Following the greatly acclaimed first volume, this collection brings together more first-rate stories by South Asian women that—whether set in their home countries or those of their adoption—explore with profound and sensitive insight the inner tenor of women’s lives.
	www.tsarbooks.com /Asian.htm (1525 words)

	East Asian Studies
		Japanese Canadian Timeline and bibliography - from the Japanese Canadian National Museum
		Bibliography of Asian Studies - major index to Asian studies journals from 1971 to the present.
		Canadian Periodical Index - indexes Canadian and international periodicals with an emphasis on mainstream and academic titles
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/subjects/ETAS/canasia.html (1004 words)

	Asian Canadian Artists Fund 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ROMEO CANDIDO is a Canadian born Filipino writer/director/musician.
		She also was one of the key members of Vancouver Asian Heritage Month, 1997.
		She is the 2002 winner for Central Canada in the RBC Investments/Canadian Art Foundation's New Canadian Painting Competition.
	s94948121.onlinehome.us /209937.html (951 words)

	Asian Literature - A Great Resource of Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Asian Otter Bibliography This list of articles about Asian otters, were derived mainly from the thesis bibliography of Sivasothi (1995...
		asian literature in thailand(poetry) Information on the asian literature in thailand(poetry) agenda in the areas of asian literature in thailand(poetry) video and articles on specifics asian...
		Asian Literature, Literatures of China, Japan, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Vi...
	www.literaturecorner.com /asianliterature (1458 words)

	Asian American Film: Reviews
		Generational conflict ran through two other visceral films, both American shorts: Helen Haeyoung Lee's "Sophie" and Georgia Lee's "Educated." "Sophie" is a chilling piece about a Korean American girl desperately trying to whisk her and her mother from her tyrannical father.
		Based in the second-largest Asian centre in North America, the Toronto fest balanced Asian arthouse pics with lowbrow, homegrown fare more starkly than ever.
		The Asian population in North America is expected to double in a decade, yet Asian cinema remains marginalized by the Western mainstream.
	www.asianamericanfilm.com /archives/000043.html (502 words)

	1st Annual South Asian Canadian Film Awards
		The 1st Annual South Asian Canadian Film Awards night was held on Sunday, May 28th, 2006 at the Living Art Center in Mississauga, Ontario.
		The show was organized by Avtar Surti and Tariq Yousaf of the South Asian Actors Association.
		He's appealling to all the South Asian film makers in North America to register their movies at the South Asian Canadian Film Awards website www.sacfa.com.
	www.thebramptonnews.com /articles/171/1/1st-Annual-South-Asian-Canadian-Film-Awards/Page1.html (520 words)

	ACWW >> Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop is a non-profit organization that assists Asian Canadian writers in publishing, and artists and performers in showcasing their work in culturally diverse venues and community, academic and corporate environments.
		The mandate of the ACWW is to assist writers, artists, and performers in the publication or showcase of their work and talent.
		The ACWW provides a place for more established writers to guide emerging writers from a common Pacific Rim Asian heritage through the difficulties of the publishing field in a supportive and culturally sensitive environment.
	members.shaw.ca /asiancanadianwritersworkshop/about.html (132 words)

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