2011-09-03, 18:57 | Link #1 | |
Knight Errant
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Blast from the Past
I think it might be fun to post links to old news stories that now, with hindsight seem funny or interesting. Given that many newspapers and magazine's websites provide free access to their archives, it's a great opportunity.
Whoever can come up with the funniest or most interesting article will recieve kudos from all. Not only that, but we may get some interesting opportunities for discussion. Without further ado, here's my article to kick things off, from Time Magazine, March 1957: Religion: Going Steady Quote:
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2011-09-06, 10:50 | Link #2 | |
Moving in circles
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'Journalism is the first rough draft of history'
It would be a shame for this thread to fade away without so much as a murmur. And so, one from the archives:
Japanese in America unable to make good Republican citizens Quote:
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2011-09-06, 13:16 | Link #3 | |
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2011-09-07, 04:42 | Link #4 |
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What's funny is how ironic both posts are. Even now, the youth is pretty much almost as liberal about sex as they were in the 60's, and the Japanese have been assimilated quite strongly after being in America for a while as far as I know (tho it's different within Japan itself due to their general xenophobia).
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2011-09-07, 05:06 | Link #5 | |
Le fou, c'est moi
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Use a university database (Proquest/EBSCO/JSTOR, etc.) to access the New York Times' archive or another newspaper's equivalent. Or just go to Times' archive.
Enjoy. I had a lot of fun last semester going through all that, actually. Oh, the silly humans. As a contribution, enjoy this link to a pretty legendary LIFE article. LOL. Quote:
It was only during the 60's with the model minority myth that the Japanese got a break. Chinese got that a bit earlier when they became poor oppressed friendly panda during the Second World War. "Good Asians" vs. "Bad Asians," they used to say. Yes, Mayflower Americans, your great grandparents were racist bastards. If it's any consolation, so were mine, probably, I don't actually know. |
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2011-09-07, 09:04 | Link #6 | |
Knight Errant
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Good articles all.
Here's my own contribution again from time, 1923: Squaring the Circle Final Pronouncements On the Purpose of Schools Quote:
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2011-09-07, 12:56 | Link #7 | |
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That Life article is hilarious/tragic in its ineptness and lack of realization of just how DIFFERENT Chinese are from south to north as well as how different Japanese are from region to region. But the asians even make those mistakes themselves (recalls a fellow Korean student who was adamant that she could tell someone's nationality from their looks alone even when she repeatedly failed example tests). I liked the Zenith portable radio ad next to the article
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2011-09-07, 13:16 | Link #8 | |
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