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Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2005
Dr. Wallace Loh still remembers the sting of hearing his high school teachers in Peru call him "el chino"--Spanish for "Chinese boy." Why didn't they simply use his name? After all, they did so with his classmates. They typically did not single out students of other foreign nationalities, such as calling the German student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Secondary School Teachers, Enrollment
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Romero, Robert Chao – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2007
This essay examines Chinese-Mexican interracial marriage during the early twentieth century through the lens of Mexican popular culture. Comedy, poetry, cartoons, and musical recordings of the time portrayed these marriages as relationships of abuse, slavery, and neglect, and rejected the offspring of such unions as subhuman and unworthy of full…
Descriptors: Poetry, Mexicans, Marriage, Cartoons
Varela, Beatriz – Yelmo, 1979
Presents a historical analysis of the Chinese in Cuba and examines the influence of the Chinese language on Spanish. Examples are given of Chinese words used in Cuba today and it is concluded that they have made a considerable contribution to Cuban Spanish. (NCR)
Descriptors: Chinese, Diachronic Linguistics, Etymology, Language Patterns