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Shah: I Went To The Other Side Of The World And Found Bush Fires Burning
Commentary, November, 14 2002
Sonia Shah
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Even when we first touched down on this flat, salty, ancient continent, we knew we were on the other side of the world. The moon was half-full, but just the bottom half was visible, a porcelain tea-cup. We were in the far north, it was winter, and...
Shah: Unveiling the Taleban Dress Codes Are Not the Issue, New Study Finds
Commentary, July, 10 2001
Sonia Shah
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While outrage over the Taleban's requirement that Afghan women wear a head-to-toe veil continues, a new comprehensive study shows that the majority of Afghan women consider the Taleban's dress codes a non-issue, and many choose to wear the burqa o...
Shah: The New Yellow Peril: China-Bashing for New Defense Spending Fuels Hate Against Asian Americans
Commentary, June, 22 2001
Sonia Shah
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Senator Feinstein surprised the civil rights organizers who threw her an informal wine-and-cheese shmoozer a couple months ago with an impromptu speech warning of the gathering speed of anti-China sentiment in Congress and the impending fallout fo...
Shah: Lost in Translation On the Liabilities of Being an American Abroad
Commentary, May, 14 2001
Sonia Shah
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You get so used to walking around feeling like a big smart smartypants, understanding (and disapproving of) most things around you (come on, you know what I mean) and then something simple happens that shows you, in a flash, how fragile and circum...
Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk: Part Three
Commentary, April, 10 2001
Sonia Shah
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Anti-formula activists and development officials often claim that millions of infants die every year because they are not breastfed (this is probably based on the fact that millions of infants die of diarrhea from contaminated water every year--wh...
Shah: The Celebrated Immigrant
Zmag Article, April, 01 2001
Sonia Shah
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The Celebrated Immigrant
Shah: The Curious Politics of Milk
Commentary, March, 05 2001
Sonia Shah
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Part OneOne night, a small American boy slipped into bed with his mother and suckled at her breast for a few minutes before dropping off to sleep. The next day, he told his babysitter he wanted to stop doing so, but "Mommy wouldn't let me." The ch...
Shah: The Celebrated Immigrant: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's Asian American Subterfuge
Commentary, February, 15 2001
Sonia Shah
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Labor and civil rights groups were outraged at Bush's nomination of anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage Linda Chavez for labor secretary. But strangely, when Bush quickly replaced Chavez with anti-affirmative action, anti-minimum wage (and ...
Shah: Social Alienation and the School of Fish Theory of Social Change
Commentary, April, 30 2000
Sonia Shah
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Did you miss me? YouÕve been busy, with world-shaking, front-page social change happenings. In my sleep-deprived fog even I noticed that things were getting exciting, and I missed you. My six-month leave from work to look after my 2 kids, aged 3 a...
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the WorldÊ
Commentary, November, 21 1999
Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Shah: Our Deeply Twisted Understanding of the World
Commentary, November, 21 1999
Sonia Shah
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"Do people in India leave their dead in the street?" This was the question posed to my family by a coworker invited for dinner. (She wasn't invited back.)
Shah: Young and Younger
Commentary, October, 06 1999
Sonia Shah
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As a child, on every birthday morning, I was meant to touch the feet of each of my parents to show my gratitude and respect. This simple and brief act would overwhelm me with its nakedness, its confession of my own powerlessness, its reference to ...
Shah: What Are You On? Hormones?
Commentary, August, 07 1999
Sonia Shah
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I am not proud, but not ashamed either, to admit I am humbled by hormones. I used to pride myself on being logical: as a philosophy major, I got an A+ in deductive logic in school. But under the powerful effect of estrogens and other biochemicals ...
Shah: Asian American?
Commentary, April, 26 1999
Sonia Shah
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I was recently asked to write about Asian American History Month, which, since 1979, has been observed during the month of May.
Shah: My Fantasy Goddess Is Not A Barbie Doll
Commentary, March, 04 1999
Sonia Shah
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This holiday season, Mattel, the worldÕ biggest toy maker is poised to embarrass itself and enrage Asians across the globe, with the release of its latest collectible Barbie: The Fantasy Goddess of Asia.
Shah: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Zmag Article, September, 01 1998
Sonia Shah
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peace organization that embodies and furthers this ideological change? Where are the new laws bearing on this issue? Or look at typical mainstream culture. There is a tremendous change in people’s understanding of what’s wrong and in the ide...
