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Showing 1 to 20 of 2578 for “"Asian"”.
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Beautification Practices Among Asian And Asian American College Students
… both in western and non-western nations. East Asian countries like Japan, Korea, and China are the biggest markets. Although each of these countries has local beauty standards, the global beauty industry imposes western beauty standards on individuals in those countries. This affects not only …
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Nutrition environmental measures for Asian restaurants and Asian grocery stores
… a nutritional environmental measures survey for Asian restaurants and grocery stores. Target audience: Educators working with Asian clients. Theory, Prior Research, Rationale: Nutrition Environment Measures Surveys (NEMS) provide valid and reliable observational measures of community and consumer …
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SOUTH ASIAN DIVORCE AND DISPUTES INVOLVING CHILDREN OF SOUTH ASIAN ORIGIN
… of considerable socio-legal significance: South Asian divorce and disputes involving South Asian children. Both themes are explored empirically by means of a qualitative research study conducted in an urban and industrial area of Britain with a high South Asian population. The thesis thus seeks …
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"Mobilizing ""Asian American"": rhetoric and ethnography of Asian American media organizations"
Historically, Asian Americans have been seldom represented, or if so negatively, in the mainstream media and not through their own accord. As a result, popular images of emasculated or villainous Asian American males, submissive or sexually threatening Asian American females prevail as the most …
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Delivering a Public Service? The BBC Asian Network and British Asian audiences.
… minority ethnic producers employed by the BBC Asian Network, the BBC’s only ethnic specific digital radio station, construct a distinctive audience for the broadcaster. The study looks at the challenges, barriers and conflicts that have emerged as a consequence of BBC strategic attempts to make …
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Asian American women entrepreneurs
There are an estimated 620,300 firms owned by Asian American women nationwide, and they contribute $105 billion to the U.S. economy. They are also active in Greater Boston's innovation and entrepreneurship communities. This thesis explores the entrepreneurial narratives of eight women whose …
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Asian American Adolescent Identity
The formation of ego identity in Asian American late adolescents attending Virginia Tech was examined within the frameworks of Erikson's psychosocial theory and Berry, Trimble, and Olmedo's model of acculturation. Ego identity was measured using the Achieved sub-scale of the Revised Version of the …
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The Effects of Asian American Studies on Asian American College Students' Psychological Functioning
Because Asian American college students are commonly perceived to be highly achieving and functioning, psychosocial outcomes other than academic achievements are understudied. Nonetheless, stereotypes and racism have consistently been shown to be detrimental to Asian American students' …
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Risky business: the foreclosure crisis, Asian Americans, and Asian American-serving community-based organizations
… of research on how the crisis has impacted Asian American communities, even though they are geographically concentrated in metropolitan areas and states with higher foreclosure rates. This study explores foreclosure risk, or what factors impact homeowner vulnerability to foreclosure, and how …
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Imaginaries of the Asian modern
… their native countries as well. Within the East Asian region, a booming television program trade circulates television texts, both as programs and as formats for re-making within the native culture industry. In this paper, I examine the program Hana Yori Dango, a Japanese manga turned television …
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Rethinking parenting of East Asian immigrant families in the United States with Asian feminist perspectives
In the Western perspective of parenting, East Asian parenting had been understood as either tiger mothering or traditional Confucian mothering. However, those parenting styles were considered a harsh authoritarian style. Based on Asian feminist perspectives, which seek to rethink ‘Asia’ and ‘Asian …
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Differences in the. Reading and Mathematics Achievement between Asian American and Non Asian American Children
… for the achievement or overachievement of Asian Americans are often conflicting and subject to debate among researchers. Four major theories for this achievement are explored in the review of literature. One of these theories concerns the idea that Asian American's beliefs are the result of …
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Enhanced care to people of South Asian Ethnicity-the United Kingdom Asian Diabetes Study (UKADS)
The United Kingdom Asian Diabetes Study (UKADS) is a large community based cluster randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a culturally sensitive intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in south Asians with type 2 diabetes. The study was conducted over a 2 year period and involved 21 …
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Asian and Asian American Racialization through Legislative Language in the 2023 State Alien Land Bills
This thesis analyzes how Asians and Asian Americans are racialized through the 2023 State Alien Land Bills. Previous scholarship has shown that Asians and Asian Americans are racialized through "yellow peril," "model minority myth," and "forever foreigner" tropes but little existing sociological …
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About face : Asian representations of Australia
… Australia has been publicly represented in ten Asian societies in the twentieth century. It shows how these representations are at odds with Australian opinion leaders’ assertions about being a multicultural society, with their claims about engagement with Asia, and with their understanding of …
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Influence of recent Asian SO₂ and Asian NOx̳ emissions change (2001 to 2010) on particulate matter : shifts in Asian sulfate enhancement over US surface, major production pathway, and lifetime
… the influence of recent (2001 to 2010) growth in Asian NOx and Asian SO 2 emission on transpacific transport of Asian particulate matter, especially sulfate, by quantifying and analyzing the details of chemistry and its sequential influence on transpacific transport during spring and summer. From …
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… simply be dismissed. My analysis begins with Asian American poets who I see as challenging the different forms that racism takes across more than a century of Asian American writing. But I go on to suggest that the form these critiques take connect them to the work of American poets who …
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