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COVID-19, Asian-Australian Racism And Media: What This Pandemic Says About Us
With COVID-19 racing across the world, it’s become a different reality overnight. Some of us feel fear hearing COVID-19 cases rise in other countries. Feel uncertainty as toilet paper disappears from the shelves at the grocery store around the corner. For some of us Asian-Australians, we feel the slap of racism once again amidst this…
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The Challenges of Blogging, And How To Overcome Them
A lot of the time blogging is a challenge, even for bloggers who have been blogging for a while. We all blog about different topics and blog for different reasons. But what we have in common as bloggers is sharing stories on our blogs – and so much effort goes into it. This is nearlt…
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Asians In Australian Media. Or Rather, The Lack Thereof
Fact: Australia is a multicultural country, a multicultural country where roughly 2.4 million of the population today comprises residents of Asian – Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino etc. – ethnicity. Fact: There is a lack of Asian faces in Australian mainstream media. Given Australia’s ever growing Asian population, it would be expected for Asian faces and representations…
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Psy’s Gangnam Style: This Isn’t Really Multiculturalism
If you haven’t been living under a rock these past couple of months, you probably would’ve heard of Psy and watched the viral music video that has racked up over 500 million views and counting for his hit song Gangnam Style. You might have also noticed the more than generous media coverage Psy and his…
Mabel Kwong 