Asian-Caucasian Issues

Archive for November, 2011

Cultural misappropriation

I really enjoyed this post by Jade on Wai-Taiwan: “Someone Else’s Stew.” It’s a nice piece about the cultural appropriation that all visitors take part in and how it can go wrong. An excerpt: Occasionally, it felt like they were speaking as “experts” about the country that they had (briefly) lived in and were outsiders [...]

Open Source couldn’t have come from Asia

One of the greatest things about the internet is the Open Source movement. Incredible shifts in collaborative working as demonstrated by sites like GitHub are some of the greatest manifestations of this philosophy. It is exactly that kind of collaboration which requires one to work towards the “greater good” that makes me think that the [...]