"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "2004-03-19"@en . "\"Colours\". A special issue."@en . ""@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126458/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " K.\n1\n1\n--* \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 >-^\n.Jl\n.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-^\n'a**\n^\n\y\n\ i \\n\u00C2\u00BB*\n/\n\\n,V\nT\n<\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nf\nx\n\\n^\ns\n7\n$\n/\n' / / /\n/ / /\n/ ^ a-/\n.*':\nfa'fj*\n7\n(\nX\ny\n.'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0v.\n.^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0^\na\"\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2:/ A Ubygey Special Issue\nFriday, March 19.200*\ncolours issye\nCLASSIFIEDS\nui\nUBC FOOD COOP. FAIR TRADE &\nORGANIC FOOD FOR THE\nSTUDENT BUDGET. Open 12-2PM\nweekdays in the SUB basement near die\nWellness Centre and Travelcuts.\nWOMEN'S CENTRE AGM Tuesday\nMarch 23rd 4PM in the Centre!\n\"REALITIES OF RACE IN CANADA\"\nA week of events leading up to March\n21st International Day for the\nElimination of Racism Refer to\nwww.ams.ubc.ca for more details See you\nthere!\nUBC CIRCLE K VOLUNTEERS\nPRESETS: MASSAGE FUNDRAISER!\nSUB 209 11-3pm By donation and all\nproceeds go to the Leukemia and\nLymphmo Society.\nUNICEF UBC PRESENTS\nTWISTED, a hip hop night at The Pit\nPub on Sat. March 20. Featuring DJ\nColione & a break dancing competition.\nTEACH ENGLISH OVERSEAS: Jobs\n$$ Guaranteed-Great Pay. TESOL\nCertified 5 days in-c!ass, online or by\ncorrespondehce. Free information \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSeminar, every Tuesday <_ 6:00pm. #216,\n1755 West Broadway (@ Burrard). Free\ninfopack: 1-888-270-2941 or contact\nglobaltesol.com\nGRADUATING? OBTAIN RELATED\nWORK. EXPERIENCE AND A JOB\nIN YOUR FIELD! 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Email\nspeakreferrals@ams.ubc.ca.\nTo place an Ad or Classified,\ncall 822-1654 or visit SUB\nKoom 23 (Basement).\nwww.ubyssey.bc.ca\nCAPITALIST PIGS ONLY\nNEED APPLY\nStockwatch, a stock market news service, has immediate\nopenings for two journalism interns. These two-year, eara-while-\nyou-Iearn positions will be of interest to arts graduates, who have\nmajored in either English, philosophy or economics, and who seek\na business journalism career through work experience rather than\nthrough graduate study. Pay will range from S15 to 125 per hour,\nbased on accuracy, productivity and regular performance reviews.\nA high level of English comprehension, excellent grammar skills\nand a typing speed of 65 words per minute are requirements. A\nstrong interest in qualitative business research would be helpful.\n.Aptitude testing (se%'eral hours) will take place in Vancouver.\nE-mail resumes to mikec@stockwatch.com\nWorkshops in:\n^ Spoken word, Rap, Punk,\nAitsirtMttGft::-ft-'ft,v .ft \u00E2\u0096\u00A0ft'pftftWji\u00C2\u00AB:ift'ft'f'if:'-: ft ! -yy \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTneatr^,Chiidren s writing,\nftftft'ft;Manifesto for Change',;/\n^fft^f-.^'ft.ft :f -f; B \"pofc-irta ]Qraffiti, Videso,\nWyM^MM^M\nC o ntr i bute a nd ttaive a ch a ri c^ 16 go to\n3|;|KyftMft^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 0 (-ftf Register ati\nby Megan Thomas\nCanada is indisputably an incredible mix of ethnic\nvariety. So how does a country such as Canada decide\non a single person who can represent all of that\ndiversity?\nThe question becomes even more complicated\nwhen that person is expected to represent Canada and\nis being judged on the abstract ideals of beauty.\nNazanin Afshin-Jam, a UBC graduate and Canadian,\nmade history last year as the first woman of Iranian\ndescent to compete in the Miss World beauty pagent.\nWhile her runner-up finish was an incredible personal\nachievement and a cause for celebration for both the\nCanadian and Iranian communities, it leads to the\nquestion of how race and beauty are linked, if they are\nlinked at all.\nIn the Miss World competition, women compete on\nbehalf of their country. Their bodies come to define\ntheir nation as well as their race. Because they are\njudged, their bodies function as a signifier that is being\ncompared to an ideal\u00E2\u0080\u0094this ideal in the past has been\nrepresented only by Western values. This would suggest that Afshin-Jam's near win is progress for non-\nWesternised beauty ideals on the international stage.\nBut evidence of the tension between race and beau-\niy is rampant. The 1996 Miss Italy pageant generated\nmuch controversy over race when a black carribean\nimmigrant was given the crown. The victory ignited a\nstorm of controversy in the Italian communiiy around\nwhat it means to be Italian, and also raised the flag of\nracial intolerance in the country. This leads to the question of whether one person, regardless of race, should\nbe expected to represent the ideals, beauiy or otherwise, of a nation.\nWhen the Miss World Pageant set up shop in India\nthat same year, feminist and nationalist protesters rallied and threatened mass suicide against what they\nsaw as the importation of Western values into Indian\nculture. They felt the contest was an exclusionary showcase for Western beauty ideals. The groups continue to\nraise the question of how much of a beauty queen's\nidentity is made up of her racial and ethnic heritage,\nand how much is expected to be.\nIn Africa, a nation all too familiar with racial tension and unspeakable race-based violence, controversy erupted in 1999 when a white South African\nwoman made the finals for the Pan-African beauty\ncontest. Some members of the media called the event\ninsulting to black Africans, while the contest organisers maintained that beauiy is colour blind. Is it? Is it\npossible to judge different races and ethnicities\nagainst a single ideal?\nIf beauty and race cannot be reconciled within a single nation, how can it be dealt with in a meaningful\nway on an international stage?\nPerhaps too much is being read into a beauiy pageant. Merely wearing a country's sash may not represent an entire nation, but rather a unique piece of that\nnation.\nPerhaps Afshin-Jam's success in the beauty world\nserves as evidence that she is a beautiful and unique\nmember of a diverse Canadian population, rather\nthan a representation of what it means to be\na Canadian. *\nPersonal viewpoints:\nSome collaborative thoughts on being\n\"mixed-raced\"\nby Deidra and Krysten\nCasumpang\nWe are sisters who have had similar experiences as \"mixed-raced\"\nindividuals, for we were born to a\nFilipino father and a Scottish-\nUkrainian mother. Our experiences\nhave ranged from good to bad, so\nwe have decided to write down a\nfew of them in order to share our\nthoughts on living with diverse ethnic backgrounds.\nOne of the major struggles we\nhave had to deal with is the inability to fit nicely into either of the ethnic groups that make up our background. Neither of us has ever felt\ncompletely integrated into our\nScottish-Ukrainian side nor our\nFilipino side. Growing up, our darker features, as well as the values\ninstilled in us by our father, emphasised the difference between us and\nour mother's side of the family. At\nthe same time, our so-called\n'Western' features were always\npointed out by our father's side,\nthereby creating a division between\nus and them.\nIn other words, we were too\nFilipino to be 'white' and too\n'white' to be Filipino. The fact that\nwe identify more with our Filipino\nside is of no relevance to our\nfather's family, who has told us outright that they do not and will never\nconsider us fully Filipino. Instead,\nthey have continued to refer to us\nas 'Mestiza' and 'half-breeds'\nthroughout our lives.\nWe have often been told by others that our situation allows us to\nhave the \"best of both worlds\"; we,\nas 'mixed-race' individuals, are\nbelieved to be lucky in our ability to\nreap the benefits of two distinct cultures. This idea has proved to be\nproblematic for us because\nthroughout our lives we have not\nalways been provided with the\nopportunity to be exposed to the\ndifferent cultures that make up our\nbackground. Therefore, we have\nbeen unable to reap the 'best' of the\ncultures because we have not\ngained familiarity with them\u00E2\u0080\u0094whatever the \"best' implies.\nThe existence of those who\nhave internalised a hierarchy of\nrace and ethnicity has been\nrevealed to us as a disturbing reality. Throughout our lives, we have\nmet many Filipinos who, when\nthey have found out our background, have commented on the\nattractiveness of our 'Western' features such as our noses and our\nlight skin colour. In fact, a couple\nof weeks ago we fell into a conversation with a woman who happened to be a Filipina, and when\nshe found out our father was\nFilipino, she commented that we\nhad nice pointed noses, not broad\nnoses like hers. We both felt saddened by her statement and her\nthinking that her 'Filipino appearance' was somehow inferior to\nours. However, this was not the\nfirst time that this had happened\nto us; sadly, we have come across\nmany individuals who associate\n'Western' features with beauiy.\nIt should be noted, however,\nthat our experiences as mixed-\nraced individuals have not been\ncompletely negative. Although we\nmay not have been granted full\nacceptance into either ethnic category, we have developed a unique\nperspective of the world due to our\ndiverse background. We both also\nfeel lucky that we are able to grow\nup in a time when being of mixed\nrace is more accepted by society\nthan ever before. This could be said\nto be one of the positive sides of\ngrowing up as Triracial.' * colours issue\nFriday, March 19,200*\nA Ubyssey Special Issue\nTHE UBYSSEY\nFRIDAY, MARCH 19,2004\nVOLUME 85 ISSUE 45\nEDITORIAL BOARD\nCOLOURS ISSUE\nCOORDINATORS\nDan Enjo\nAnia Mafi\nCOORDINATING EDITOR\nHywel Tuscano\nNEWS EDITORS\nMegan Thomas\nJonathan Woodward\nCULTURE EDITOR\nJohn Hua\nSPORTS EDITOR\nJesse Marchand\nFEATURES/NATIONAL EDITOR\nHeather Pauls\nPHOTO EDITOR\nMichelle Mayne\nPRODUCTION MANAGER\nPaul Carr\nIva Cheung\nCOORDINATORS\nVOLUNTEERS\nSarah Bourdon\nRESEARCH/LETTERS\nBryan Zandberg\nThe Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University of\nBritish Columbia. It is published every Tuesday and Friday by The\nUbyssey Publications Society.\nWe are an autonomous, democratically run student organisation,\nand all students are encouraged to participata\nEditorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the\nexpressed opinion of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect the\nviews of The Ubyssey Publications Society or the University of\nBritish Columbia.\nThe Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press\n(CUP) and adheres to CUP's guiding principles.\nAll editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The\nUbyssey Publications Society. Stories, opinions, photographs and\nartwork contained herein cannot be reproduced without the\nexpressed, written permission of The Ubyssey Publications Society.\nLetters to \"the editor must be under 300 words. Please include your\nphone number, student number and signature (not for publication)\nas wel| as your year and faculty with ali submissions. ID will be\nchecked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of\nThe Ubyssey, otherwise verification will be done by phone. The\nUbyssey reserves the right to edit for length and style.\n\"Perspectives\" are opinion pieces over 300 words but under 750\nwords and are run according to space.\n\"Freestyles\" are opinion pieces written by Ubyssey staff members.\nPriority will be given to letters and perspectives over freestyles\nunless the latter is time sensitive Opinion pieces will not be run\nuntil the identity of the writer has been verified. The Ubyssey\n. reserves the right to edit submissions according to length and style\nIt is agreed by all persons placing display or classified advertising\nthat if the Ubyssey Publications Society fails to publish an advertisement or if an error in the ad occurs the liability of the UPS will\nnot be greater than the price paid for the ad. The UPS shall not be\nresponsible for slight changes or typographical errors that do not\nlessen the value or the impact of the ad.\nEDITORIAL OFFICE\nRoom 24, Student Union Building\n6138 Student Union Boulevard\nVancouver, BCV6T1Z1\ntel: 604-822-2301\nfax: 604-822-9279\nweb: www.ubyssey.bc.ca\ne-mail: feedback@ubyssey.bc.ca\nBUSINESS OFFICE\nRoom 23, Student Union Building\nadvertising: 604-822-1654\nbusiness office: 604-822-6681\nfax;, 604-822-1658\ne-mail: advertising@ubyssey.bc.ca\nBUSINESS MANAGER\nFernie Pereira\nAD SALES\nDave Gaertner\nAD DESIGN\nShalene Takara\nCOVER PHOTO\nNic Fensom\nCOVER DESIGN\nPaul Carr\n\"You people need to dean op this mess!\" said Paul Evans. Dan Enjo\nand Paul Carr shoot their heads. The office slahk so badly thai Hywel\nTuscano and Jon Woodward were wearing maslts al Iheir desks.\nEmergens Sam, Sarah Wagner and Chris Wong sprayed Febreze mist\nBryan Zandberg sal in a mound of trash. \"How do you stand the smell?\"\nasled Nic Fensom. as Dierdra and Xiysten Casumpang looked on. UBC\nCleanliness Cops Dan McRoberte and Johnny Hua busted through the\ndoor, saying \"We can smell you all the way to the Pit* Iva Cheung\ngrabbed shovels and Jesss Marchand, Tao-Yee Lau and OanieUe\nNanton in help. With Camille Johnson, .Ania Mail and Mia Amir, they\ncarted the refuse to ihe dumpsters. Sarah Bourdon, Heather Pauls and\nMichelle Mayne buml some incense, and soon Ihe office smelled real\npuriy.\nV\nCanadian\nUniversity .\nPress\nCaha& Post Sales Agreement Numbar OQ4OB7B0Z2\nutside the archetype\nHow is\ncolour\ndiversity\nrepresented\nin the\nmedia?\n^ { i h\nWE'RE SURROUNDED! Ania Mafi (centre left) and Dan Enjo (centre right) talk Canadian\narchetypes, the media and, when pressed, martial arts, nic fensom photo\nby Ania Mafi\nAn opportunity to help develop an issue devoted to people of colour\nmeant putting together an issue that encompassed the diversity that\ndefines the many cultures of this group. Making media our central\ntheme allowed us to shed some light on the positive contributions being\nmade in the media, as well as dying to rectify a few mainstream stereotypical perceptions of people of different racial and ethnic groups within the media. Our focus is based on contemporary culture and where\ndiversity fits in with respect to the mainstream media today. How far\nhave we actually come in combatting racism and racial stereotypes?\nIn this issue, we cannot come close to giving a complete answer to\nwhere racial minorities stand with respect to how the media sees them;\nwe have tried to show some of the positive, and expose some of the outdated and negative depictions helping to bring awareness to matters\nwithin our campus community and beyond.\nAs a diverse campus with many colours within its rainbow of students and faculty, we hope that we have made an effort to educate and\nraise awareness.\nA person of visible minority, I celebrate my own Iranian heritage,\neven though I have only been to Iran two brief times since I was born\nthere. Not entirely Canadian, and yet not entirely Iranian, I feel proud\nto be a member of both communities.\nBoth Dan and I appreciate the dedication of the volunteer writers\nwho took the time to open up about the challenges they face within their\nown lives, and to those who wrote simply to raise awareness. Also, a special thanks to everyone else that helped put this issue together, as well\nas to the Rung Fu Association for the kung fu vogue-ing. Strike a pose. *\nby Dan Enjo\nHow would you define being Canadian, in an ethnic sense? Is there a\n'Canadian' archetype that lurks around us? I would like to put forth the argument that there is no 'typical' Canadian; an archetype is resistant towards\ndiversity. The media has adhered to a non-existent Canadian archetype for\nfar too long, but things are slowly changing to better reflect the various inter\nand intra-ethnicities we see and touch in our everyday lives.\nConversely, the ever-changing face of diversity is well reflected in our\ncampus\u00E2\u0080\u0094diversity is a part of many students' lives, whether in clubs, courses, or academic programs, and there is a mounting push to become educated about more and more cultures. Hence, the production of this issue.\nMany of us have yet to discover this potential for diversity on campus; these\npages address some of the ideas that contributors have brought forward, in\nthe hopes that people will be better informed about campus culture as well\nas the shape of Canadian culture in general.\nAs a person born in Canada of Japanese ancestry (and thus considered\nJapanese-Canadian), I have become used being asked the ubiquitous \"Where\nare you from?\" when meeting new people. There seemed (to me) to be a\nprevalent stereotype of the Anglo-Canadian being the typical Canadian,\nwhich was due, in no small part, to inaccurate media representation.\nRecently, however, the question has morphed into something like \"what\nis your heritage?\" as an awareness of the sheer diversity of people who are\nborn Tiere' is becoming more accepted and widespread. I feel that people\nknow that being 'Canadian' is a given and I am not readily identified with\nanother culture that I have faint ties to. 'Culture' and 'diversity' are complicated words, but perhaps they are the best terms to describe phenomena\nthat axe always changing and never reversing. *\nBorders Within panel, Friday,\nMar. 19,2-4pm\nThe SUB Norm Theatre hosts\na keynote panel, \"Borders\nWithin: Two-Tiered Citizenship\nPost-9/11,\" as a part of Realities\nof Race in Canada events at\nUBC.\nKeynote speaker, Friday, Mar.\n19,11-12 noon\nVancouver City Hall hosts\nHayne Wai, a community anti-\nracism and human rights advocate who currently teaches at\nUBC. Council Chamber and\nfoyer, 3rd floor.\nYouth of Colour In Consultation\nAgainst Systemic Racism conference, Mar. 27-28, 9am-\n10pm\nThe BC Government and\nService Employees' Union hosts\na two-day conference designed\nto deepen our understanding of\nsystemic racism through discussion and analysis of experiences\nof racism and discrimination.\nRegistration can be made at\n604-215-1103.*\n* * y\nV\nGOT ISLAM? A high-traffic information booth in the SUB\nconcourse raises awareness about Islam, nic fensom photo\nAFRICA LIVES IN ME\nby Emergene Sam\nWon't take Africa out of me\nWon't take Africa out of me\nAm a long long way from home\nBut no matter where I roam\nAfrica is ip my soul.\nWon't take Africa out of me '\nWon't take Africa out of me\nNo, No, No, No\nYou may take my ancestors out of Africa\nBut you won't take Africa out of me\nBecause, Because, you see, you see\nAfrica Lives!\nAfrica lives in her children\nIn the Caribbean, on the Continent,\nIn Canada, in the diaspora, at UBC\nAfrica lives through you and me\nAnd in those who share solidarity\nWe are the children of Africa\nCome on sister take my hand\nCome on brother let's get along\nOut of many we are one\nSee the candle burning bright\nOn the darkest, darkest night\nThat's Africa, that's Africa\nShe's the flame that would never go out\nIn spite of slavery and colonisation\nAnd AIDS and Famine,\nAfrica will survive\nShe's got to stay alive\nThrough you and me\nA-f-r-_c-al * 4\nA Ubyssey Special Issue\nFriday, March 19,200*\ncolours issye\n/? #?THE UBYSSEY\nf r^ Ts \"\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '\" # pitted up (* 85. /\n(^ommunitu\nf ontributl\nVta_*S i a \u00E2\u0096\u00A0* W -I- A \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 R >\n\u00C2\u00A30/Z\ns\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0s'\nJ\n^\nr\\n1;V\nWfe, at the Ubyssey, the official student newspaper of UBC, feel that we should be doing our\nmost to recognize and encourage activities and events that develop and strengthen a sense of\ncommunity on campus. On our 80th anniversary in 1998, we established a $50,000\nendowment that will fund the Ubyssey Community Contribution Award. This annual award\nrecognizes a returning UBC Student who has made a significant contribution to developing\nand strengthening the sense of community on the UBC campus by:\n1. Organizing or administrating an event or project, or\n2. Promoting activism and awareness in an academic, cultural political, recreational, or\nsocial sphere. -\nThe 2003-2004 award went to Christopher Ste-Croix in recognition of his contribution to\ncampus safety and related services.\nThe award is open to all returning, full-time, UBC students, graduate, undergraduate and\nunclassified in good standing with the Ubyssey Society. We will award $3,000 to this project\nand the award will be disbursed to the successful candidate in September 2004.\nNominees for the award will be judged on:\n1. The impact of the contribution made - the number of people involved or affected.\n2. The extent of the contribution - the degree to which it strengthens the sense of\ncommunity on campus.\n3. The innovation of tie contribution - preference will be given to recognizing a new\ncontribution over the administration of an existing one.\n4. The commitment of the individual to UBC as a community.\nNominations should include a cover letter by the nominator, either an individual or a group,\nbriefly stating the nature of the contribution made, the individual being nominated, contact\ninformation of the nominator and the nominee and a letter (approximately 500 words in\nlength) describing the contribution made and bow the above four criteria have been met.\nStudents are welcome to nominate themselves, but those doing so must attach a letter of\nsupport from another member of the campus community. The award will be judged by a\ncommittee chaired by a representative of UBC Student Financial Assistance and Awards office\nand members from various parts of the campus community.\nDeadline for submission of completed nominations should reach the Ubyssey, room 23, SUB,\nno lata: flan Monday, April 19th, 2004.\nFor further information, please contact Femie Pereira, Business Manager, Hie Ubyssey, at\n(604) 822-6681 or email: fpereira#inteKhange,ube.ea\n. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0_--__\nAdvanced Placement into Diploma Programs\nPut Your Degree to Work\nIf you have a university degree in any field you\nmay be able to obtain a BCIT Diploma in one year.\nBQTs advanced placement into diploma and\npost-diploma business programs can fast-track\nyou into a career in:\nFinancial Management\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Advanced Accounting\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Professional Accounting\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Finance/Financial Planning\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2Taxation\nContact:\nTim Edwards, Associate Dean\n604-432-8898 or fmgt\u00C2\u00AEbcit.ca\nOperations Management and\nInformation Technology\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Operations Management\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Internationa! 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Culture shock, mostly.\nFrom this other-cultural perspective, the movie captures the essence\nof rapidity and techno-prominence\nof urban Tokyo culture, all from the\nNorth American visitor's point of\nview. The movie is able to portray\nthe gaijin subculture that is increasingly prevalent in Japan; gaijins\nbeing the group of foreigners who\nusually float from West to East,\nlooking at Japanese popular culture\nthrough an objective lens, much\nlike the scene where Charlotte looks\nout from a taxi window at night as\nthe city flashes by.\nThe film isn't without its share\nof controversy. Criticism has been\ndivided into two distinct camps;\none group takes dire offence at the\nfilm's portrayal of the Japanese people and culture, while the other\nlauds the portrayal of living in\nJapan as a foreigner. For example,\nYoko Akashi of Japan Today writes\nthat she was offended by the film\nand \"the more [she] thought about\nthis film, the more it made [her]\nangry,\" but others, such as Mirai\nKonishi ofwww.eiga.com, note that\nno great offence was taken, and that\n\"for an American movie about\nJapan, it's a frank, if somewhat\nexaggerated, snapshot,'\nWhile valid arguments exist for\nboth, I feel that the former group is\noverreacting to the cultural depiction. As a Canadian of Japanese\nancestry, the movie brought back\nmemories of being in that gaijin\nculture as a foreign student within\na group of foreign students.\nInadvertently but not deliberately\nholing ourselves up in our dormitory, we created a small sub-culture,\nkeeping the vestiges of North\nAmerican culture alive while the\n'other' culture surrounded us. We\nwere bonded by our feelings of\nalienation from the world that\nencircled us; any excursion into the\nland of the locals' was usually a\n(mis)adventure that everyone\nenjoyed telling afterwards, and\nthese objective journeys formed\nwhat our understanding of\nJapanese culture was.\nOur group had a full year to\nshare our own impressions of\nJapanese culture; Sofia Coppola has\nabout two hours to do the same. In\ndiscovering any new culture in a\nshort period of time, we are led to\nthe act of categorisation and to\nforms of stereotyping in an attempt\nto understand what is going on\naround us, whether we like it or\nnot. With this thought in mind.\nCoppola has given the audience a\nworthy imprint of a culture that\nmanages to combine the familiar\nand the unfamiliar; a 'Westernised'\nculture that is still somehow\n'exotic'\nIt is important to note that Japan\nserves as a background to a simple\nstory that focuses on the relationship between two visiting foreigners. Japan is the cultural backdrop;\nfleshing out each character would\nrequire a significantly longer\nscreening time, and would probably\ninfringe on documentary. As in\nstage theatre, the backdrop functions to complement the main\naction; it uses representative elements to try to create a feeling of\nverisimilitude, but is never directly\npart of the main storyline action.\nIn this movie, Japanese culture is\nthat setting and the people are its\n'extras'; while they help the storyline progress, they don't play an\nintegral part in the main action.\nThe movie focuses on a love\nstory, not a foreign culture, as\nmovies like the comedic Mr\nBaseball (starring Tom Selleck) did.\nAs I (and the 50 other people who\nwatched the movie) remember, Mr\nBaseball was a farce that directly\nand unsympatheticaUy poked fun at\nJapanese mannerisms and customs, and Selleck's eventual\nromance with his translator was\nalmost negligent to the storyline.\nGranted, Lost in Translation\nmakes no effort to hide the fact that\nit plays on racial stereotypes, but\nthe typecasting goes both ways. For\nevery 'salary-man/ there is a North\nAmerican businessman; a call girl\nwho understands little of North\nAmerican culture has a foil in the\naction movie star who has little\nknowledge of Japanese culture.\nHowever, there was a time, not so\nlong ago, when cultural stereotypes\nwere far more prevalent in television and the movies. Shows like\nHawaii Five-0 and Kung Fu used\nethnic stereotyping to the point\nwhere Asian characters were portrayed as caricatures\u00E2\u0080\u0094Caucasian\nactors played Asian parts and\nattempted (and largely failed) to\nimitate languages and mannerisms\u00E2\u0080\u0094but these interpretations\nwere the real emulators of misguidance and inaccuracy.\nLost in Translation has moved\nbeyond the fake accents and badly-\npronounced languages to film on\nlocation with native speakers\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nwelcome change that is much\nappreciated. While the portrayal of\nJapanese culture is not perfect, it\nhas come a long way from the days\n. of Danno and Phillip Aim. * colours issue\nFriday, March 19,2004\nA Ubytsey Special Issue\nstudies\nby Danielle Nanion\nEver since my first year at UBC, I\nhave sought courses of interest in my\ntwo fields of study: history and\nCommerce. However, I have yet to\nsee a course in African history which\nI could take. This is not to say that I\nhaven't attempted to rectify the situation in my own special way. I have\nfond memories of attempting to\nwrite a term paper for an international relations course in which I discussed African politics. Another, perhaps a little more farfetched, attempt\nwas during a first-year 20th century\nhistory course, associating the\nKorean War with the independence\nmovement that occurred in Kenya.\nBut up until a week ago, I thought\nthat I was alone in my thinking that\nthere should be more African-based\ncourses offered by the history\ndepartment at UBC. It took one\nbrave soul to stand up in front of my\nBritish imperial history class, wave\ntwo pieces of paper and proclaim\nthat there is a petition seeking signatures trying to encourage the\nintroduction of more African histo*\nry courses into the UBC history curriculum. As the petition went\naround the class, I could see that I\nwas not alone in my desire for\ncourses of this nature.\nMcGill offers African-based histo\nry courses and so do many other\nuniversities here in Canada, according to the petition. By introducing\nthese classes, students who are in\nthe department of history will be\ngiven the opportunity to widen their\nperspectives while gaining a more\nintegrated and functional degree.\nI can speak from my own experiences of travelling to Africa, and\nmore specifically Kenya, that it is a\ntruly fascinating country and continent. I was able to live with the\nMaasi tribal people in the Maasi\nMara and learn where they live, how\nthey live and how they dance. The\nculture and history of these people\nare truly fascinating. Two of my\nfriends from the Maasi tribe also\nsaved me countless times from\nfalling into crocodile-infested\nwaters as well as from being stuck\nfor a night out in the African outback because I got trapped in black\ncotton, a type of soil that is impossible to drive in. If the history of these\npeople isn't something that everyone would want to learn regardless\nof their department, I don't know\nwhat is.\nNow, as we say in Swahili\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nnative language of Kenya and my\nmother's first language\u00E2\u0080\u0094an ever\nhopeful Hakuna Matata (no worries)\nand Asante Sana Rafiki (thank you\nfriend). *\nPiilt^ip!^\nsignatures\nfor 5000\nRaising awareness for African studies\nby Paul \"Basil\" Evans\nNearly 2000 signatures have been\ncollected for a petition that calls on\nthe UBC administration to implement an African Studies program\nat UBC.\nConducted by the UBC Africa\nNetwork, the petition demands that\nthe university offer African-\nfocused courses covering a wide\nrange of subjects, including history, culture and language.\nEventually, the Network would like\nto see a department offering\ndegrees in African Studies.\nIt hopes to collect 5000 signatures from UBC students and faculty, as well as members of the\ncommunity. But even 2000 would\nmake a good statement said UBC\nAfrica Network spokesperson\nCara Ng.\nThe group will present the petition to UBC as part of their ongoing\ncampaign.\nAlma Mater Society (AMS) VP\nAcademic Brenda Ogembo would\nalso like to see Africa play a larger\nrole in the curriculum. \"[African\nstudies] is essential to broadening\nthe perspectives of students, if this\nis truly an institution of higher\nlearning,\" she saicL\n\"UBC has the whole vision of\nglobalisation and internationali-\nsation and so, following in line\nwith that, it can't not have African\nstudies,\" she said.\nThe university is taking this\nvery seriously and is always eager\nto hear student feedback, said\nBrian Sullivan, UBC VP Students.\n\"I've been actively encouraging\nstudents to give voice to that\ndesire,\" he said. The university is\nalready planning to increase funding for Africa Week next year, and\nmomentum is building around\nAfrican awareness, he added.\nAlthough the university's\nresponse has been positive so far,\nOgembo is still skeptical. \"Actions\nspeak louder than words,\" she said.\nWhile the petition is being circulated primarily for students to\nsign, many members of the\nVancouver community have also\nsigned it\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ng thinks that the outside signatures enhance the petition.\n\"It's a statement from the community, both the UBC community\nand the wider community itself\nshe said. Everyone's opinion is\nimportant, said Sullivan.\nThe campaign to incorporate an\nAfrican studies program received a\nboost when, in Januaiy, the AMS\npassed a motion that created a policy to lobby the administration for\nAfrican courses. But African studies still faces many obstacles and\nOgembo conceded that this will be\na long process: \"It's not something\nthat would happen overnight,\"\nshe said.\nHiring new faculty and actually\ncreating courses would be very\ncostly to the university, she said.\nNg recognises financial barriers, but proposes that UBC should\nseek money from its alumni and\nvarious African organisations. In\naddition, she thinks the university\ncould always revisit its current\nexpenditures.\nDespite the fact that the program is still hypothetical and not\nrealistic in the near future,\nOgembo wants the university\ntake some type of action. \"I'd\nlike to see the university take\nsome concrete steps towards getting an African studies department going.\"*\n''UBC has the whole vision of globalisation and international-\nisation and so, following in line with that, it can't not have\nAfrican studies.\"\n.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-.., i / \u00E2\u0080\u0094Brenda Ogembo, AMS VP ^cedemic\nft_|Ck I <5 NIHIMPI P[ease forward your resume & cover letter for any of these positions by March 31,2004 to: Brenda Ogembo, VP Academic & University Affairs,\nHind 19 tllltlif U. Chairof m6 AMS Appointments Committee, c/o room 238-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z1.\nAMS Service Coordinators\nAMS Firstweek Coordinator\n:.c.f\nt Fir^t\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u009E' .VA-\nt'.-!,rr \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 i\n:sl '\".jiur 5 a\n-.\"C-d ,-.i\"rt-\nV1 '-.h '.1 n-\no S-p.-i-'ttr\ni r.t.' \" . o >3 :<^\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 *--&iging br speaker, perttf-urs, 8'>d sli\ne'.ter'dinrent will coi sulfa \"jr i>oti the\ns'.eersgc cocmirtre\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Cco'dirat'.'ig eh \"dieting eMea.ois in-;\ncLding rnn'l-cuts\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Recrj ting '.-aiP'ng and coor|:i\"a\"L'ng vo jp-!\nipe^ and spec al staff for First v'.'ock '\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Superv.jng asiitians d-'ng [he 'mai\nTi'.'-iih of'.he s-irpmer and rjr.ng re First *\nWttkeve-.s j\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Coo'diotrg actvtes & ev^s cV.ig v\nF>rs! A'ecK i\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Serjr.ig a! 'i&r.ess?r, raorvs equ.pn-er*. t\npov-dr .-nd secu'.'y i _eJec ji.r'tg F\"St\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2/vefck\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Ov'j scrj.-g F -bt Week bjcigei\nPrr.'d'ig regj=r ^rcjress v-po.ts ta 7he\ns?E;vnves n'vj'O'iratu\") to ihe .-.&of.-;p\ncc '\u00E2\u0080\u00A2-fee ?-s .'.e1 i-o. p'O'li'crj =j f-sl re-\np*.\". io C3ur ;i' !\nOrientations Coordinator\nThe AMS Orientations Program introduces\nnew UBC students to campus life through\na variety of initiatives. Acting as coordinator\nand spokesperson for this program, the successful applicant will manage all aspects of\nAMS Orientations.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Assisting in the recruitment, hiring and\ntraining of orientations staff\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Preparing a detailed budget and operational and financial reports\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Gathering student feedback and statistics\nduring the orientations.\nTime Commitment: The Coordinator's time\ncommitment will vary throughout the year.\nApril, 25 hours per week\nMay-August, 40 hours per week\nSeptember - December, 10 hours per\nmonth.\nThe positions responsibilities and remuneration are currently under review.\nQualifications\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Knowledge and enthusiasm about student\nlife at UBC\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Strong communication, organizational and\nleadership skills.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Ability to train, manage arid supervise staff\n*Note: Interested applicants are highly en-\ncouraged to have access to a vehicle during\nInside UBC\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"t'ce U8C 'S 3 >\.;:i: Cd tr i \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: i*. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2&, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a - pus .\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 !.>\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\"'. on < t a ;\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' a\n'{,\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:..\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:' ap. !c *.;. on- ^ rcy. a'\u00C2\u00AB3 jn \"forrr:,\n jj \u00E2\u0080\u00A2..;> cr c<~ \u00C2\u00BB'. 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AMS Services are a vital part\n' of our society. We are looking for people that\nhave great initiative, ideas, personality and\nthat can make a difference.\n. General Responsibilities\n. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Manage and oversee all aspects of your service;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Assist in the recruitment, hiring and training\nof employees;\n! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Convey service goals to AMS Communications Department to ensure proper promotion and marketing;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Liaise with all relevant on and off-campus\ngroups;\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Attend Student Service meetings and main\ntain regular office hours;\n; \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Gather student feedback during the year and\n' keep statistics on your service;\n' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Provide a final, detailed operation report to\nj the Executive Coordinator of Student Ser-\n; vices;\n! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Prepare a detailed budget and provide operational and financial reports to the AMS\nExecutive Coordinator of Student Services.\nFor descriptions visit www.ams.ubc.ca.\nWANT MORE INFOP\nS-51' jo 'nr yj 6wv z \"\"e.-.s'i-1 :r \"le /-MS\n'-tear ve ana Ac ii .-\u00E2\u0080\u00A2';' z you :>.:a:es cr a! tSe-\n^d'esi e.e-\"? a' z ':S. k-. '.hat a'Vt rcu \"0 &\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 31'\nLp .is1: wAwarr.s ubc.ca A Ubyssey Special faue\ncolours issue\nFriday, March 19,2004\nA Ubyssey Special Issue\n>*-i-\n9\".\nV I R I D A E\nAre you suffering from\nfrequent cold sores?\nViridae Clinical Sciences Inc. is looking for volunteers\nfor a cold sore research study involving an\nexperimental drug in the form of a cream. The study\nis testing to see if the cream speeds the healing of\nthe cold sores.\nIf you have at least four episodes of cold sores a year\nand are interested in participating in a research study\nplease call us to see if you qualify.\nViridae Clinical Sciences Inc.\n(604)689-9404\nI . *- -s\n .\u00E2\u0080\u0094\u00E2\u0080\u0094'f.MIJlf\nit'spaybacktime\nREPAYING YOUR STUDENT LOANS:\nA WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATING STUDENTS\nTUESDAY, MARCH 23. 3 - 4 PM BUCHANAN A204\nWEDNESDAY MARCH 24. 3 - 4 PM BUCHANAN A102\nEquity Ambassador\nUBC group leads workshops on empowerment, anti-oppression\n'^'<\u00C2\u00A3\n\"! I \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ! 7. <' i !i :i! \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \": *:[ A::'.!\ni * * *.'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0-. i \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 i - i...i\nit.. >.//\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 /'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 f .\"j\nfo/ vlnia Ma/i\nThe Equity Ambassadors, formed through a collaboration between the UBC Equity and Women's Studies\nOffices, are a group of motivated and optimistic individuals making a difference within our campus community.\nLeading workshops on campus about racism, anti-\noppression, heterosexism, personal empowerment and\nsexual harassment, this group is raising awareness\nthrough education.\nWith an average of 30 people applying to be\nAmbassadors each year, many are accepted and partake in\na training period that instructs newcomers on how to conduct workshops. Laura Spencer, a member of the\n^\n! m t. _!* J.\n/\n,,. .j\nIT'S LIKE THIS: Ambassador Lin Khng facilitates an anti-oppression workshop, nic fensom photo\nAmbassadors, notes that \"the program has developed and\nprogressed into [one] that has potential, especially when\ncollaborated with other UBC and student groups, to\nteach...groups which have not confronted their own privileges or barriers at UBC.\" A proud member for two years,\nSpencer encourages students to unite in the fight towards a\nmore equitable community. The program, led by Anna\nVanderbijl and Maura Decruz, meets once per week and is\ncurrently working on efforts to expand their group and\nencourage more students to join in their outreach efforts.\n\"[The coordinators] allow us to learn at our own pace,\nexpress ourselves in any form, and allow us to mould the\nprogram into how we feel will reach our peers,\" says\nSpencer. The group makes decisions as a whole, but each\nmember plays an important and fundamental role in the\nworkings of this collaboration.\nAttending a meeting earlier this term, I saw for myself\nthe dynamics of this group and the dedication of each\nmember to create workshops that people will not only\nlearn from but will also enjoy attending. Hoping to offer\nworkshops at high schools and elementary schools in the\nnear future, the Equity Ambassadors currently accept\nrequests by other clubs and student groups to run workshops for them.\n\"I experience what UBC really is: a diverse community\nexperiencing issues that arise from Canada and the globe,\nincluding international issues of equity, accessibility and\nidentity politics,\" says Spencer.\nFor many who can relate to this, taking the extra step in\nmaking a difference to combat these issues of inequality\nseems like an impossible task that cannot be embarked\nupon by one person.\nHowever, making a difference right here within the UBC\ncommunity can be done through learning to educate the\npeople around us. The Equity Ambassadors are a group of\nindividuals that are taking an active step towards challenging the barriers that many students face. *\nA family\nfair\nA multiracial family has its share of twists and turns\nby Sarah Wagner\nWhen the social worker asked me if I would\nlike to have a little sister, I didn't hear her\nsay the words \"of a different race.\" With four\nyounger brothers, I was just ecstatic at the\nthought of finally having a younger sister. I\nwas not concerned about weaving racial\nlines together into one family, because we\nhad already adopted twins who are half Cree.\nThe twins were adopted in 1988, when I\nwas six years old. Although information on\ntheir birth family and community is limited,\nAJ and Andrew are very proud of their First\nNations heritage. They know who they are\nand where they came from. In some sense, it\nis easier for the boys because they have each\nother. They share the same heritage and the\nsame history. ;\nWe knew that Becky's rdad might have its\nmoments of solitude. With her Indo-\nCanadian background, she would immediately stand out as \"different\" from the other\nmembers of the family We worried about\nfinding ways to incorporate her culture into\nour own, and the best means for her to be a\nWagner without giving up her heritage.\nAlong with the challenges, we knew that welcoming Becky would also bring us overwhelming joy.\nWe did our best to include Becky's birth\nculture into our family which was mostly\nIrish and German. I asked my parents to\nkeep the name her birth parents had given\nher as a middle name. They agreed. We\nlearned a bit about Sikhism and Indian culture, so that when Becky has questions, we\nwon't have to look too far for an answer. We\nwere lucky to grow up in a very diverse\nneighborhood, so Becky was able to make\nfriends with children of many races, including several of her heritage.\nDespite all of this/we bad moments of\nheartache. When she was only four or five, I\nfound Becky's brown-haired Barbie laying\nhalf-under the bed. When I bent down to pick\nit up, I saw that several other dolls were also\nbeneath the mattress. I looked around and\nrealised that Becky had lined up all of her\nblonde-haired, blue-eyed dolls on the shelf,\nand thrown those that looked like her underneath her bed. I asked Becky why she didn't\nwant to play with all her dolls. She shrugged\nand pointed tp one with yellow hair; \"that\none looks like you, right Sarah?\"\nI couldn't help that I was white, and I had\nno sense of what it meant to be Indian. Why\nwas Becky hiding part of herself underneath\nthe bed? I felt like I failed because 1 didn't\nanticipate Becky feeling like an outsider in\nspite of all the love we shared. All I could do\nwas pick the dolls up from under the bed\nand put them back on the shelf.\nBy the time Becky entered school, her\nawareness of our physical differences\nreached its peak. Our mother still remembers picking Becky up from day camp\nwhen she was seven. Becky slunk into the\ncar and asked Mom to park \"far away\"\nfrom the camp next time so that her\nfriends wouldn't see them together. She\nwas only in grade two, and Becky didn't\nwant to explain her differences to her\nfriends\u00E2\u0080\u0094not yet, at least.\nBecky is ten now, and she has come a long\nway in accepting who she is as part of our\nfamily. I asked her last week if she was happy.\n\"Of course!\" she said. I then asked her if she\nwould change anything about our family if\nshe could. I held my breath when she said:\n\"Well, there is one thing I don't like.\" Her\nresponse was wonderfully typical for a ten\nyear old\u00E2\u0080\u0094and something I could relate to perfectly: \"All those brothers, Sarah. They're driving me crazyl\" %\nA.1 .*V %>_%____!_\nAnswers to the question: what are you?\nIdentity issues of the biracialwoman in her twenties\nby Camille Johnson\n\"You look like Catherine Zeta-Jones!\"\nActually, no one's ever said that to me.\nI wish I looked like her, but unfortunately I'm not quite that lucky. Coming\nfrom a Filipino and English-Canadian\nfamily, I have always been complimented by strangers on my unique\nbeauiy. But in comparison to Zeta-\nJones and other female celebrities, my\nface has never quite measured up in\nproportion. However, I have been\nasked questions like, \"What are you?\nIt's a pretty mix...\" or \"What nationality\nare you?\" on a fairly frequent basis. If\nyou can relate, then you're likely part\nof the growing population of biracial or\nmultiethnic individuals. And chances\nare you've been bombarded with these\nquestions many times over.\nIt's questions like \"What are you?\"\nor \"Where are your parents from?\" that\nbring many identity issues to the forefront 2 2 year-old Shari Riley dealt with\na lot of these questions as a child in her\nhometown of Surrey. Coming from an\nEnglish and Malaysian-Chinese family,\nshe found that although some people\ndidn't even notice her biracial upbringing, others were quick tp inquire about\nher unusual look. \"I didn't stand out\nvery much,\" she points out, \"[but] I\nthink they responded to my face, which\nthey couldn't quite place. Everyone put\ntheir own personal slant to it\"\nThat's when the identity issues\ncome into play. Women like Riley\nbegin to question what it is that others\nare seeing in their physical appearance, and begin to identify those differences within themselves. \"Up until\neveryone started asking me, it never\noccurred to me to ask what [these per\nceptions] were,\" Riley says. \"It never\nreally mattered to me until I realised it\nmattered to everyone else.\"\nWith these differences in physical\nappearance hanging over them, biracial individuals often search to find\nimages of themselves in the media.\nLianne McLean, 20, who is half-\nScottish and half-Chinese, remembers the first celebrity that she identified with in terms of physical appearance. \"[I liked] Jessica Alba in Fhpper,\nIdle Hands, and Dark Angel,\" she\nrecalls, \"because I remember her as\nthe first biracial actress I acknowledged as such.\"\nShari Riley's own female celebrity\nidols during her teenage years tended\ntowards characters in popular movies\nand television shows. She points to\nwomen such as Candice Bergen, Julia\nRoberts, Claire Danes, and Angelina\nJolie as having a huge influence on her\nlife. \"[They were] gorgeous, talented,\nwitty, and had more spunk, more\ncourage to say and do what they felt\"\nNo biracial individuals here.\nAlex Swann, 20, describes a different portrait of beauty as a child. She\nnames the character of Princess\nButtercup, played by Robin Wright-\nPenn, in the The Princess Bride as one\nof the women who influenced her\nbeauty ideals as a young girl. \"When I\nwas a child, the women I remember\nwere princess-like,\" she muses. \"She\nwas younger, long-haired, gentle, and\nvery pure. And usually English.\" This\nstandard of beauty follows years of\nBarbie dolls, Disney cartoons, and\ncharacters from children's fairy tales,\nfar from her own Colombian and\nScottish/Welsh backgrounds\nThis is not to say that multiethnic\nwomen could not be found in the\nmedia at all Over the past several\ndecades there have been many media\nicons who were celebrated for their\nunique beauty. One of the most\nfamous examples from early film history is Rita Hayworth. Born Margarita\nCarmen Cansino, she was the daughter of a Spanish dancer and a New\nYork showgirl; her combined ethnic\ncultures included Spanish, Jewish,\nEnglish, and Irish. And she certainly\nwasn't alone: Lena Home, Raquel\nWelch, and Cher are only a few famous\nfaces that belong in this category.\nNevertheless, there was still a distinct\ntrend to avoid any strong affiliation\nwith the non-Caucasian part of their\nheritage. Although Rita Hayworth was\nmost famously known for her strawberry blonde locks, she had dyed them\nfrom the original black and under the\norders of studio executives, underwent years of painful electrolysis to\nrecede her hairline to enhance her\nCaucasian features.\nThis tendency has itself receded\nover the last couple of decades. In\n1995, People Magazine released their\nMost Beautiful People list with double\nthe number of multiethnic women\nthan the year before. Not only was\ntheir presence felt visually, but their\nbeauty was often attributed to their\ncultural backgrounds. Actress Vanessa\nMarcil was not only honoured by\nPeople Magazine, she was also selected by Prince (at the time not \"formerly known\") to play the key role in his\nmusic video \"The Most Beautiful Girl\n. in the World.\" Her raven hair and \"versatile looks\" were credited to her\nFrench and Portuguese parents.\nLonnette McKee's success on\nBroadway was in part due to her \"one-\nof-a-kind features\" (inherited from her\nScandinavian-American mother and\nAfrican-American father); Queen\nSilvia of Sweden was blessed with her\nfather's rugged German good looks\nand \"her Brazilian mother's brown-\nsugar eyes\"; Yasmine Bleeth's\nRussian, German, French, and\nAlgerian physical manifestation was\n\"exotic and classy.\" s\nThe modelling industry, an entity\nthat plays a huge role in setting beauty standards in society, also echoes\nthese sentiments. In Angela\nNowacin's 1994 book. Modeling: A\nGuide to Working in Canada, she\ninforms young women about the\nnature of the most glamorous and\nbest paid modelling market high\nfashion. \"Exotic and unusual looks\nare common,\" she writes. \"Models\nwith ethnic backgrounds or who are\nmixes are quite popular.\"\nLegendary makeup artist Kevyn\nAucoin also notes this change in attitude in his 2000 makeup book Face\nForward. He uses Christy Turlington,\none of People Magazine's 50 most\nbeautiful people in 1993, as an example of these changing trends: \"It's\nhard to believe that [in the early\n1980s] Christy's dual ethnicity made\nit more difficult for her to get advertising campaigns and magazine covers,\" he writes, \"Luckily, as the\nnineties rolled around, such blatant\nracial prejudice\u00E2\u0080\u0094eyen though the\nNew York f ashionistas think they have\nno bias \u00E2\u0080\u0094began to dissipate.\" Aucoin\nrefers to her several times throughout\nhis book as \"a role model for those\nborn of different races\".\nNow wait one minute. Did you\nknow that Christy Turlington was biracial? Probably not In fact, many of the\nabove names are not identified by the\npublic as anything but Caucasian. For\nexample, Eliza Dushku, star of the television series 2rue Calling and formerly of Bully the Vampire Slayer is biracial (to my great surprise), of Albanian\nand Danish descent\nThe most often-used phrase is\n\"passing as\"; individuals such as\nDushku are able tp blend almost effortlessly into the majority culture. One of\nLonnette McKee's most famous roles\non Broadway, the character of Julie La\nVerne in \"Showboat,\" tells the story of\nthe star singer of the Cotton Blossom\nwho passes as white for several years\nuntil the local sheriff discovers her\nblack heritage. Other than meeting\ntheir parents or having them be more\nforthcoming about their cultural heritage, these women, for all intents and\npurposes, are an invisible minority.\nSo who can biracial women visually\nidentify with if they can't even tell\nother biracial individuals from everyone else? They either make an 'educated' guess or project their cultural backgrounds on the next best thing. Alex\nSwannidentified strongly with the\nphysical appearance of Catherine Zeta-\nJones. Zetajones' Spanish character }n\nThe Mask ofZorro is a far cry from her\nIrish/Welsh roots, but Swann identified with her supposedly Spanish looks\nand character. Living solely with her\nmother from the ages of six to 13,\nSwann was extremely influenced by\nher Latin-American roots arid that\nchanged her perspective on physical\nappearance.\nYet there's still those differences in\ntheir features, the qualities that other\npeople just can't place. More often\nthan not these physical attributes are\ntheir non-Caucasian features which\nseparate them from many of the\nfemale celebrities in the media, or\neven many of their own peers. In other\ncases, it is their Caucasian features that\nprevent them from identifying fully\nwith the other half of their cultural\nbackground. This disjunction of the\nself makes it difficult for biracial\nwomen to reconcile these physical differences, and can lead to negative self-\nperception. While growing up, I found\nthat I liked my pointed nose but I\nwished I could change my rounded\nface, a feature that I later realised was\ninherited from my Filipina mother.\nChildren usually do not draw any distinction between either of their parents' features, but as they grow up, it\nhas a large bearing on their own self-\nperception.\nAt the same time, the increase in\nmultiracial families and the subsequent growth of the biracial demc.\ngraphic has contributed to the acceptance and celebration of these distinct\nindividuals. They are often alluded to\nas tokens of the new multicultural\nglobal society, a role which some\nembrace and others reject McLean\nfinds the curiosity of others amusing,\nbut emphasises that her background\nis not the most important aspect of\nher identity. \"It's not offensive, but\nhumourous,\" she remarks, \"when I\nconsider myself Canadian and\nhuman above any sort of racial classification.\"\nParticularly with biracial women,\nthere is an exoticisation of their unique\nfeatures, leading to the sexy and glamorous descriptions seen earlier. As a\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0*}\nLOOKING FOR IDENTITY? Looking good, michelle mayne photo\nresult, biracial women often have a\nvery positive self-image, but not without a price. For many of these women,\nthere is a level of objectification that\ngoes beyond sheer curiosity and reaches into the realm of fetishism. \"Once I\nwas at a party, and this guy was pestering me,\" Riley recalls. \"I didn't want to\ntalk about my [background] and he just\nwouldn't let it go. That's just a little\nstrange, the way complete strangers\nfeel that they have the right to know\nsomething personal about me just\nbecause it's not written across my forehead for the world to see.\"\nEach biracial individual has a different experience, depending on the\ncombination of different backgrounds\nthey possess. However, it is common\nthat all of these individuals, at one\npoint or another, will be seen simply\nas a sum of their racial parts, and a\nlack of visual identification in others\nusually exacerbates this problem.\nOften these women cannot recognise\nthemselves, and are forced to either\npick one of their ethnicities to define\nthemselves or constantly move back\nand forth between them\u00E2\u0080\u0094a juggling\nact which doesn't always pan out But\nwith the ever-increasing presence of\nbiracial individuals in Canada and\nacross the world, we become less the\nexception and more the rule. Even\nthough I could list countless numbers\nof biracial women in the media today,\nnumbers aren't the issue; it is the\nunderlying perception of these\nwomen that counts. The more generations that are exposed to the biracial\nexperience, the more likely that these\nperceptions will change.\nAnd my hope? That even though I\nmay never look like Catherine Zeta-\nJones, I'll eventually be able to look\ninto the mirror and appreciate what I\nsee on a deeper level than just the sum\nof my ethnic parts. * 8\nA Ubyssey Special Issue\nFriday, March 19,200 _\ncolours issue\nIntegrated Sciences Program\nI Making Connections in Science I\nJj|f$^\nWednesday, March 24,12:00 -1:00 pm\nRoom 462, Leonard S. Klinck Bldg.\nThursday, March 25, 5:00 - 6:00 pm\nRoom 460 Leonard S. Klinck Bldg.\nContact:\nCarmen Reilly\nRoom 303, Leonard S. Klinck Bldg.\nisp@interchange.ubc.ca\nwww.science.ubc.ca/~isp\nBang!\nfw?s\nSpoof meeting: today; at i2cpp pm\niiiSUB Room 24\n#tH| UBYSSEY\nholy spoof issue, batlnan! since 1918\n4\nf -\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nEmployment opportunities available\nEmployment opportunities are excellent for\nmedical laboratory technologists, BCTTs unique\nblend of academic learning and real skills\nensures that our graduates leave with the\nconfidence they can succeed.\nIf you're Interested in the practical laboratory\napplications of biology, chemistry and\nmathematics, and have excellent written and\nspoken English, this may be the career for you.\nAs a medical laboratory technologist you'll\nprovide accurate information to physicians as\nthey diagnose* monitor and treat diseases.\n>fftf:;ft:;;ftjhte4\u00C2\u00BBCai;^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0|ft le^Hhoiogis ts Progranri\nReal Life Clinical Experience\nThis 2.5 year full-time program includes 40 weeks\nof clinical experience in a hospital or private\nclinical laboratory.\nProgram starts in September.\nApplication deadline: Friday, April 23\nFor more information:\n604-432-8831\nkaren_nfcolson@bcit.ca\nwww.bcit.ca\nthe path you choose can make all the difference.\nA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION\nNon-existent races\nBantering with UBC politica\nscience professor Bruce Baum\nBy Chris Wong\n\"There are no Negroes, there's no\nMongolian race, there's no\nCaucasian race. It's just that we use\nthose three categories/ says Bruce\nBaum, author of the upcoming book.\nThe Rise and Fall of the Caucasian\nRace.\nHold on. Let the hackles on your\nneck slowly resume their original\npositions. No one is denying that\nrace-based suffering has left an\nindelible mark on your personal\nexperience. In fact, it is precisely\nthose individual differences in experience, as opposed to your particular\nplace on the pigmentation spectrum,\nthat Bruce Baum suggests would\nmake up your 'racialised* identity.\nI recently had the chance to sit\ndown with the UBC political science\nprofessor to talk about race, its construction, and some of my favourite\nstereotypes:\n1. Blacks are biologically pre-dis-\nposed to play basketball.\nThis is one myth that seems to have\nfound solid purchase\" in the general\nconsciousness. Statistically, if you are\na black man in America, you have\nabout a one in 4000 chance to make\nthe NBA, while if you are white, you\nhave approximately a one in 90,000\nchance. The problem with this statement is that, while rhetorically\nhandy, proportional arguments are\nalso mutable to the point of absurdity-\nBruce Baum: If you went back fifty\nyears you might have said that Jews\nmust be physically predisposed to\nexcel at basketball because they certainly were overrepresented in terms\nof their number of the population,\nwhich was probably, like, two percent of the US population. And they\nwere, maybe, 10-15 percent of the\nNBA- WeH, what was going on was\nthat same kind of an urban thing\nwhere they were overrepresented in\ncertain areas where basketball was\nbig.\n2. Asian people are the 'model\nminority/\nArguments of this sort represent a\nlarger discourse\u00E2\u0080\u0094the idea that we\ncan place people on an evolutionary\nhierarchy according to racial lines.\nAlthough I'd desperately like to\nbelieve that this practice went out of\nvogue with the dissolution of\nphrenology (not The Roots album) as\na credible scientific doctrine, this is\nnot the case, unfortunately.\nAt this very moment, everyone's\nfavourite Canadian pseudo-scientist,\nJean Pierre Rushton, is probably\nexamining a pickled penis in an\nattempt to further the cause of scientifically supported racism. The crux\nof Rushton's argument is that the\nraces evolved from a common\nhominid at different times and, as\nAsians separated from this common\nancestry last, they have a higher IQ,\nare more law-abiding, and are more\nsexually restrained than the other\nraces.\nBruce Baum: He looks at [IQ tests]\nand says 'well that just proves that\nAsians are smarter than Caucasians\nand that Caucasians are smarter than\npeople of African descent' Rather\nthan saying that those groups, first of\nall, that those categories aren't necessarily coherent and meaningful in\nthe first place, and second, that the\nsocial conditions very much favour\ncertain groups to succeed at tests and\nother educational outcomes and\nclearly disadvantage other groups.\nDomestically, the link between\nclass and immigration access in\nCanadian-Chinese immigration policy has factored into these results.\nMeasures like the Head Tax, which\nrequired incoming immigrants to\npay a substantial fee to enter the\ncountry and included exemptions for\nvarious professions, restricted the\ninflux of the incoming 'yellow\nhordes'; this ensured a relatively\nhigh concentration of wealthy, educated, or alternately, debt-ridden\nnewcomers.\n\"There are no\nNegroes, there's\nno Mongolian\nrace, there's no\nCaucasian race.\nIt's just that we\nuse those three\ncategories.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bruce Baum\n3. Mixed races are universally\nexotic and beautiful.\nThis stereotype probably stems from\nthe influx of Eurasians in the twin\nfields of modelling and acting. Tia\nCarrere, Keanu Reeves, and other\npop culture superstars are pretty\nmuck the only representation of\nmulti-racial identities in the media.\nBut, given my own half-Chinese, half\nmutt-white ethnic background, I'm\nmotivated to leave this particular\nstereotype intact And I will. Watch\nme.\nI do, however, have a very real\nproblem with the use of umbrella\nterms like 'Eurasian' or 'Hapa' as\nanything other than cultural shorthand; for they suggest that multi-ethnic or multi-racialised identities\noperate as unitary concepts.\nInevitably, this use leads to the\n'whitewashing' of both one's\nEuropean and Asian heritage. No two\npeople's ethnicities are going to be\nexactly alike, especially when you're\ndealing with highly differential\nracialised identities. The experience\nof, say, a third generation half-\nChinese, half- white person who grew\nup middle class in the nineties is\ngoing to be infinitely different from\nthe experience of an Indonesian-\nDutch teen heartthrob or a 'cabli-\nnasian' pro golfer.\nBruce Baum: At some level, I have\nsome trouble with the term [mixed-\nrace]...insofar as it's affirming actual-\nly existing races and people are saying, 'Well, I'm not just one race, I'm\ntwo races,' that part I find troubling\nbecause it's sort of reifying the\nnotion of race.\nSo who's hurt by the propagation\nof these positive stereotypes?\nWell, other than the black men\nwho can't jump, Asians who fail\ntheir math classes, and unattractive\nEurasians, I'd suggest that there is a\nvery real, very negative effect for\nsociety at large. To accept racial\nstereotypes, no matter how positive,\nis to affirm the system of racial division. 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'.\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\ndemocratically\nelect'n since 19.18\nPeter Klesken - :;.\n?-ft f Melissa Rbfide: ftfv ,'j-- -. f' 'V ft:V-\nThe case for\na Safe space\n\"The Colour Connected office exists\nto act as a safe social space for\nempowerment among self-identifying First Nations, and students of\ncolour at UBC who may otherwise\nfeel excluded from UBC spaces.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Colour Connected Constitution\nby Mia Amir\nand Marjory Ditmars\nOn the Colour Connected Against\nRacism door is a sign that reads:\n\"This space is for students of\nColour and First Nations students\nonly. Please Respect. Thank you.*\nDiscussion and disagreement\nhas surrounded the assertion of\nsuch a space, including the\nStudent Administrative\nCommission (SAC), which recently\ndenied Colour Connected the right\nto assert such a space. Colour\nConnected would like to historically and ideologically contextualise\nwhy the existence of such a space\nis necessary.\nIn September, the question of a\nsafe space policy became central to\nhow the group conceptualised itself\nand its role and\nwork on campus.\nColour Connected\nmembers, through\nconsensus, including the voices of\nwhite ally members,\nmade an important amendment to\ntheir constitution, entrenching certain elements into the ways in which\nColour Connected operates. The\nchange reads as follows: _\n\"Whereas Colour Connected\nAgainst Racism, a UBC AMS\nResource Group, exists to do anti-\noppression work on this campus\nfor the whole UBC student population, the Colour Connected office\nexists to act as a safe social space\nfor empowerment among self-\nidentifying First Nations, and students of colour at UBC who may\notherwise feel excluded from UBC\nspaces. Therefore the space is for\nthe use of self-identifying First\nNations and students of Colour\nonly. However, the work, forums,\nevents and specific meetings held\nand organised by Colour\nConnected are open to all UBC students, at the discretion of active\nColour Connected membership, in\norder to maintain the accessibility\npf the group and the group's work\nto all students on this campus.*\nColour Connected's work is\ntherefore two-fold: We exist to\nexpose and counter racism and\noppression on campus and in the\ncommuniiy at large through inclusive education and the organisation of diverse events for all students at UBC. We also exist as a\nspace where these students can\nseek refuge from a normatively\nwhite campus culture, wherein\nexperiences of alienation and\ndisempowerment are all too\ncommon.\nThis space provides the \"students it serves an pppcjrtanity for\nautonomous, , self-empowering\nPERSPECTIVE\norganisation and dialogue; helping students to build a strong\nsense of self by improving their\nself confidence and fostering the\ndevelopment of race consciousness and skills to combat racism,\noutside of the oppressive structure\nof the university. This space also\nprovides students an opportunity\nto address prejudice between\nracialised groups.\nRecently, Colour Connected has\nbeen accused of endorsing\n'reverse racism* through our\nassertion of such a space. We fundamentally disagree with the\nnotion of \"reverse racism.*\nOppressed groups cannot exact\noppression on their oppressor in\nan equal manner, especially in the\ncontext of a society where socioeconomic and political inequalities are systemical-\nly entrenched; ie.\nCanada.\nCurrently, other\nsafe spaces on\ncampus operate in\na similar and very\nlegitimate way, ie. within the First\nNations House of Learning, the\nWomen's Centre, certain Pride\nevents. It is our belief that Colour\nConnected should be allowed the\nsame measures. As thete are no\nother spaces on campus where\nissues of race, racialisation and\nracism are being addressed in\nsuch a comprehensive manner\nand as no other attempt has been\nmade to determine whether or not\nthere is a need for a safe space on\ncampus, Colour Connected has\ntaken it upon itself to create a\nspace for those students who do\ndeal with these experiences of\nexclusion on a daily basis.\nThe safe space policy does not\nviolate Colour Connected's inclu-\nsivity as our meetings do not occur\nin the office itself; our events are\nfor the participation of all students. The majority of our\nresources are located in the\nResource Group library, which is a\ncommon space shared by the\nResource Groups as a whole.\nColour Connected is saddened\nby the recent disagreements that\nhave emerged between themselves and other groups serving\nstudents of colour at UBC.\nHowever, we are encouraged by\nthis revitalised discussion of race\nand racism on campus and we\nhope that through dialogue and\npeer education we will be able to\nbridge these ideological gaps to\ncounter oppression. *\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mia Amir is an ally of Colour\nConnected and Marjory Ditmars\nis a member of. Colour\nConnected colours issue\nFriday, March 19,2004\nA Ubyssey Special Issue\n11\nClub says safe space excludes them\nUBC Caribbean African Association no longer able to share office area\nby Dan McRoberts\nThe creation of an unofficial 'exclusive safe\nspace' for students who identify as First\nNations or of colour has one campus club concerned that some of their membership is\nbeing excluded from a space they used to use\nto meet.\nFor the past two years, the Caribbean\nAfrican Association (CAA) has shared Colour\nConnected's office space in the SUB. But this\nJanuaiy, a sign appeared on the door of the\noffice declaring the space to he an exclusive\nsafe space. The sign has forced the CAA out,\naccording to the association president.\nCAA, a multi-racial club, had been using\nthe space for storage and also to hold meetings, but says that this is no longer a possibility given the change of status.\n\"We have moved out of the office because\nwe cannot share an office space that excludes\nsome of our members,* said Ramona\nCruickshank, CAA president. \"We don't support the space.*\nMia Amir, who defines herself as a \"white\nally of Colour Connected,* recognises the difficulties for CAA, but said the space belongs to\nthe resource group.\n\"The space sharing was established at an\nearlier time, before a lot of the current members and allies were involved,\" she said.\nThe decision to create the exclusive space\nwas made through a lengthy process of debate\namongst the members and allies of Colour\nConnected, said Amir, emphasising that the\ndecision was made through consensus.\nBecause Colour Connected is an Alma\nMater Society (AMS) resource group, it has\nthe option of amending its constitution to\ninclude a clause that would make its office an\nexclusive safe space. This amendment must\nalso be approved by the AMS's Student\nAdministrative Council (SAC), the body that\noverseas clubs and the student council.*\nAmir said Colour Connected has created\nthe amendment. But that amendment has\nnot yet been approved by SAC or council, said\nLynden Wei, a spokesperson for SAC, meaning that Colour Connected can not yet operate\ntheir area as an exclusive safe space. Wei also\nsaid arrangements must be made to create an\narea open to everyone as part of Colour\nConnected's space before the exclusive space\ncan operate.\n\"We have been in communication with\nthem that it is not an official safe space,\" said\nWei, adding that SAC will remove the sign if\nColour Connected does not, and will take\nsteps to make sure the sign does not go back\nuntil the room is approved as a safe space.\nDespite its unofficial status as a safe\nspace, Colour Connected remains inclusive,\nsaid Riaz Behra, a member of the group. \"We\nmeet in the common area in the resource\ngroup area,\" he said. \"In terms of people\nbecoming active within our group, we're\ncompletely open.\"\nBut Cruickshank disagrees, saying the sign\nforces individuals to categorise themselves\ninto racial groups. \"The group is called Colour\nConnected Against Racism, and our understanding of that is that all races are coming\ntogether to combat racism. So when you take\nonly white people out, that doesn't make it a\nsafe space.\"\nBut the safe space is necessary because it\nreflects the realities of equality and racism\non campus, said Amir. \"It's important that\nwe maintain the space as a place for students of colour only, because we need to\nunderstand that the UBC campus is a nor-\nmatively white male campus, whether or not\nthe makeup of the student body is majority\nwhite or not.\"\nCruickshank is also concerned that no\nmember of CAA was informed before the\nchange to an unofficial safe space. \"If you're\nmaking a decision, you have to let people\nknow,\" she said. \"They have disrespected us.\"\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0* __ _T _E A \u00C2\u00AB_IL _* ___* & \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00A3*n\u00C2\u00A3E \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 *\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 -\n3fF...CE\n\\nc i\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ' W 1. 1\n- t*>\n$-^.\nTHE SIGN IN QUESTION: Colour Connected decided in Janurary to make their office\ninto a safe space for persons who identify as First Nations or of colour, putting them\nat odds with a club on campus, nic fensom photo\nColour Connected should have contacted\nCAA, admitted Amir. But she also said CAA\nhas disrespected Colour Connected. \"A white\nmember of CAA did enter and didn't leave\nwhen asked to. It was one instance, but it was\nprofound enough for the students involved in\nColour Connected to be really disturbed.\"\nCruickshank sees the incident in a different light \"We had asjeed one of our members,\nwho is white, to come to the office. At that\npoint I did not know about the sign on the\ndoor,\" she said. \"There were other CAA members in the office and they discussed the sign.\nTlje conversation was not in support of the\nspace. They were saying 'we don't agree with\nit' He was only there for a couple of minutes.*\nCAA is presently holding meetings at\nInternational House, but has no access to an\noffice. Behra said that finding a new space\nfor CAA is important. An anti-oppression\nworkshop for members of both organisations\nhas been proposed but nothing has been\nplanned yet.\nAmir said disagreement over the need for\na safe space has occurred because of differences between the groups. \"We are an\nexpressly political group and CAA is a cultural group and so their analysis of the situation\nis different than ours,\" she said.\nBut the difference of opinion can have a\npositive outcome, said Behra. \"The best thing\nthat can come out of this is an actual dialogue\non racism, and the need for this space, that\noften gets silenced in society.\" >K\nNe^clabreak\nfrom all that\nstudying?\n:y Watch news stands\nfor a very special\nf issue of the Ubyssey\n'coming up real soon!\nV'\--'--'-.'V V V \"~~r'y '\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2: ''\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \" \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 '*\"'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 -'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' :-:\"'::' ':\".'; v Wft7 ''--; \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \"\n;p f :^: f ft THEUBYSSEY\nf tee heehee since; 1918 12\nA Ubyssey Special hsuz\nFriday, March 19,200 _\ncolours issue\nBuilding an immigrant and\nrefugee rights movement\nAn Interview with Harsha Walia\nby Tao-Yee Lau\nHarsha Walia is a community activist and\nwriter working with immigrant/refugee\nrights and aboriginal sovereignty struggles.\nShe has recently worked in India for the\nanti-corporate struggles in one of the largest\nPeople's Alliance movements. Harsha spoke\non campus last month at a forum presented\nby UBC Colour Connected. I recently sat\ndown with Harsha to talk about her work\nwith No One Is Illegal Vancouver.\nTao-Yee Lau: Let's start by discussing the\nfactors which lead to migration.\nHasha Walia: Today, an estimated 150\nmillion people are in migration. Increased\nmigratory pressure over the decades owes\nmore to the dynamism of international capitalism rather than to the growing size of the\npopulation of Third World countries. The\nvery conditions that spawn migration into\nthe countries of the North\u00E2\u0080\u0094war, poverty,\nunemployment, destruction of the rural\neconomy, dispossesion\u00E2\u0080\u0094are fueled by G-8\npolicies on firee trade and western-style\n\"development\"; the same G-8 nations then\nrefuse any semblance of life and dignity to\nthose who can get to the territories of the\nNorth. And less than five per cent of today's\nworld's migrants and refugees come to\nNorth America.\nLau: Can we first clarify the way in which\nyou use the terms immigrant, refugee, and\nundocumented?\nWalia: Yes, language is very important.\nMost of these terms are labels set forth by\nthe government as a means of creating different classes of people: refugees are those\nwho seek protection from war and persecution, as defined by the Geneva Convention.\nImmigrants are selected on the basis of a\nmerit-based point system that enforces the\nidea of capitalism, in that those who speak\nthe colonial languages and have a certain\namount of money are usually selected.\nUndocumented are those who are outside of\nthe system, and are essentially \"illegal.*\nHow can human beings be classified as illegal aliens?\nLau: Public awareness around refugee\nissues often focus on relating the trauma\nexperienced in the home country of the\nrefugees. While this is obviously central to\nunderstanding the refugee experience, most\npeople never hear about the other end of it\nwhat is the experience of going through the\nrefugee system in Canada?\nWalia: The main thing is that refugees\nbear the burden of proving that they are\nindeed fleeing persecution. This sets a huge\nbar for those who are still dealing with the\nbrutality they have faced, the ordeal of displacement, the lack of language skills, etc.\nThe Immigration and Refugee Board has\nbeen 'streamlined* sp that the fate of a person's life is entirely in the hand of one\njudge. Judges to the IRB are political\nappointees and are not mandated to have\nany particular knowledge of the situations\nfrom which people have fled. There is a\nhuge amount of inconsistency in judgments. All these barriers perpetuate systemic discrimination.\nFurther, since 9/11, a variety of extensive\nlegislation has been passed which greatly\nimpact the rights of immigrants and refugees.\nThe ability of the Canadian government to\nimpose such major legislation despite the\nresounding resistance of affected communities says multitudes about democracy and\nequal rightsfor those from foreign-born communities.\nLau: How is the fight for migrant rights a\nfight against racism and economic and occupational apartheid?\nWalia: Borders, a creation of colonisation, are the cartographies of anti-racist and\nanti-imperialist struggle. As a Chicano protestor declared, \"We didn't cross the border,\nthe border crossed us.\" Displacement, migration and race are an intertwined phenomenon, almost inseparably, from the colour-line\nto the border-line. The majority of the displaced throughout the world are indigenous\npeoples in the settler states of North\nAmerica, Australia and New Zealand or from\ncommunities of colour in Latin America, the\nCaribbean, Asia, and Africa. Yet, when those\ncommunities from the South manage to\nmake a home in the North, they continue to\nremain foreigners, as hyphenated citizens,\nIndo-Canadian, Chinese-Canadian, just never\nquite Canadian enough.\nFurther, the system creates a vulnerable\ncommuniiy of non-citizens, which all industrialised states use as temporary, cheap, and\nu\n* \\no \\\n\*\n**%\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n> *\n-4\n. i\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Vrf'iM\n> \u00C2\u00BB i i * /#\n\ ' -* * ' \u00C2\u00BB _\n* > \ \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ' \ > j \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n1\ni: >\n: \\n\ \u00E2\u0096\u00A0-.\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\ni \ \u00E2\u0080\u00A2-\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2* i\n- i *\n'% '\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 V\n\ s\nNO ONE IS ILLEGAL: Concerned citizens take it to the streets in support of refugee\nand immigrant rights, photo courtesy of tao-yee lau\nhyper-exploitable labour. This apartheid system of assigning criminal status to \"illegals\"\nmean that they are treated as a flexible pool\nof workers without rights of settlement or\npolitical enfranchisement in the places\nwhere they work.\nLau: Can you speak about the strength of\nimmigrant and refugee movements worldwide? How do immigrant and refugee rights\nstruggles advance anti-corporate globalisation, anti-war, labour movements in North\nAmerica?\nWalia: As the causes of migration\u00E2\u0080\u0094state\nrepression and capitalist globalisation\u00E2\u0080\u0094continue, immigrant/refugee movements will\ncontinue to gain strength in numbers and\nmorale, and migrants will fight back with\ngreater fortitude for their rights to a new life.\nBorder hysteria in the global North is an\nattempt to subjugate us to remain in the\nspaces in the South, which is reinforced by a\nsense of national entitlement that white people feel towards \"Canada.\" This needs to be\nchallenged with integrated politics that\naccount for the need to end displacement.\nMigrants are the living reality of globalisation and war, and as such, they are the\nhuman face of the anti-war and anti-corporate globalisation movements. Any movement for social justice must honour these\nstruggles.\nLau: You are also a member of the Native\nSolidarity Network. How has working on aboriginal rights enriched your understanding of\nthe work you do around immigrant/refiigee\nrights, and vice versa?\nWalia: Indigenous peoples of the settler\nstates have waged the longest wars against\ncolonisation and dispossession, and the\nstruggles of this land must be honoured and\nrespected. At the surface of [the issue], it\nwould appear that migration from the global South would deepen dispossession and\nsettlement of indigenous communities.\nHowever, displacement is understood as an\nimperialist and elitist agenda, rather than\nmerely the number of migrant/settlers on\n[the land]. Migrants of colour and indigenous communities in the settler states face\nsimilar conditions of unequal citizenship:\nunderrepresented, underpaid, constantly\nbelittled by overt and institutional racism,\nand massively incarcerated.\nAll social movements are essentially\nabout freedom, choice and self-determination. We have to build a common struggle not\nonly against our common oppressor\u00E2\u0080\u0094a type\nof system that deems us as second class, as\nillegal aliens or status Indians\u00E2\u0080\u0094but also to\nreinforce our organising methods and\nvisions of the future to create a global and\ncomprehensive imagination.\nContact: No One is Illegal at noii-\nvan@resist.ca to get information about\nfuture events and current campaigns.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Tao-Yee Lau is member of UBC\nColour Connected\ns yours.\nSan Francisco $257\nLas Vegas $238\nLondon.. $602\nSydney $999\nAifrnQtelf&traosMs:\nBU/flBOUT EUROPE\n^____!::i:::r I *\n2 weeks/16 countries\nFrom:\n$509\nUJORH Ifl flU/TRflUf.\nSydney Work Pack, incl. 4 nt. accomm.,\ntransfers and Sydney Harbour Cruise\nFrom:\n_l\nllt^^SW'^fil'SpHiSlfjpJii\npttflli^^^yQMfflJ^lnplllfiW\nFare is round trip from VAN and\npm-as are per person. Subject to\nchange and availability. 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