qwardian
05.11.08, 22:10
To zdjęcie przedstawia osobę czarną z Afryki...
www.africarte.it/foto-storiche/Mongo-%20Bantu%20Congolese.JPG
A to jest Barack Obama, kulturowo i wizualnie z czarnymi ma niewiele
wspólnego:
www.starpulse.com/Notables/Obama,_Barack/gallery/JKZ-003229/
He was born and raised in Hawaii, the only majority-Asian state in
the union; he spent four formative years in Jakarta, the home of his
Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro, where he attended local schools
and learned passable Bahasa Indonesia. The family with whom he's
closest — half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng and her Chinese Canadian
husband, Konrad Ng — are Asian American. So, too, are the most
senior members of his congressional team — his Senate chief of staff
Pete Rouse, whose mother is Japanese American, and his legislative
director Chris Lu, whose parents hail from China.
Evidence for Obama's affinity with the Asian American experience
runs true even as one delves deeper into his history. "A lot of
aspects of the senator's story will be recognizable to many Asian
Americans," says Lu, a Harvard Law School classmate of the senator's
who joined the team in 2005. "He talks about feeling like somewhat
of an outsider; about coming to terms with his self-identity; about
figuring out how to reconcile the values from his unique heritage
with those of larger U.S. society. These are tensions and conflicts
that play out in the lives of all children of immigrants."
And how he talks about those tensions could be rote recital from the
Asian American literary canon. With minor search-and-replace, much
of the first half of "Dreams" could have been excerpted from an
Asian American coming-of-age work, like Gus Lee's "China Boy," Gene
Yang's "American Born Chinese," or Michael Kang's "The Motel."