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The Death of Language
by Bun Kin Today, half of the six thousand or so languages are spoken by fewer than ten thousand people. On the other hand, only a small number are spoken by hundreds of millions of people. Researchers...
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Colorism and affirmative action in Brazil
by Seimu Yamashita Reading Edward Telles’ work on the social consequences of skin color in Brazil made me think whether affirmative action is truly justified. The author mentions about difficulties in...
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Immigration for children in Japan
by Yuki Muto Children are victims of immigration. Their parents migrate with their children, even if the children don’t want to go. We learn from the two articles that bilingual children get high...
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Brazil’s income gap and inequality
by Nachika Fujimoto Through official figures, we can observe the income gap In Brazil still remaining extremely high and unequal. According to the census, the richest 10 percent is still over 20 times...
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Colorism in Latin America; Not about Race
by Oscar Manzano If you are reading this blog about colorism and you already have prior knowledge on the subject, chances are that you don’t agree with the title of this piece. This may be because...
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The consequences of blackness in Brazil
by Saki Miyata In “The social consequences of skin color in Brazil”, Edward Telles describes how people perceive skin color and race differently in the Brazil, compared to the United States, as well as...
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Blackness in Brazil: ancestry, skin color, and race
by Hiroki Matsuyama In today’s modern world, there are many types of injurious racisms all over the world. However, the elements to discriminate against people are different, and they are depending on...
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Race, Color, and Beauty in Brazil
by Deanne Walters Brazil is a country with a long history of racial mixing, so the common system of classification for people is not one by race, but one by color. The three main categories that are...
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Color? Look for beauty in its own
by Kanae Mukaihara “Hey!” When a person sees another person and exchanges a word, they likely have already distinguished the other person’s race according to their appearance. This is the reality. In...
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Brazilian immigrants children’s identities between expectation and reality
by Minako Sanda “On the sports festival day, Brazilians were gathered and forced to dance Brazilian Samba. I hated it. While I was trying my best to assimilate to Japanese friends, being forced to...
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Expansion of plastic surgery, a new era of beauty culture
by Kiho Kozaki Plastic surgery is a widespread phenomenon today, and is more popular and accepted than ever. Aman Garg once said that plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the...
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The Era of Plastic Surgery Culture
by Hanna Byun This is a very interesting and educative topic entailing the cultural dynamics of different communities regarding beauty and appearance. Plastic surgery has become so standardized that...
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The Privilege of Beauty
by Ellen Brookes “Because society is stratified along lines of gender, race, class, sexuality, age, disability status, citizenship, geography, and other cleavages, some bodies are publicly and visually...
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The “Return” of Race in Brazil
by Chloe Lyu Different from the American white or black model of racial classification, there is a large range of choices between black and white for Brazilians to identify themselves, since Brazil...
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Consent To Plastic Surgery?
by Lin, Tzu-Chun The demand for plastic surgery is growing. The number of clients in the US experienced a three percent growth from 2012 to 2013, and 15.1 million people in America received plastic...
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