Cool & Cute
This term refers to the erasure of the source culture to emphasize universal appeal in a commodity or cultural product and can be described as "culturally odorless"
Mukokuseki
This aesthetic form emerged in the mid-late 1990's and is characterized by mehndi (henna), bindis, and saris. It represents a fascination with the notion of "India" in the U.S public imagination and an implicit colonialist fantasy of pre-independence India.
Indo-Chic
This term refers to the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hyper-technological terms, yet portraying Asian people intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising.
Techno-Orientalism
In Ai Jiang's short story, "Give Me English," what is the last Chinese word that Gillian sells?
Home
In Ling Ma's novel Severance, Shen Fever is caused by this.
Fungal spores
This word refers to the process of adapting products for world consumption to appeal to the local.
Glocalization
This activist group sought to protest Hollywood casting practicing of "whitewashing" through fan activism, boycotts, and public forums.
The Racebending.com Movement
This is the name of the protagonist's love interest in Charles Yu's short story, "Florence"
Tina
This is Jorry's main source of income.
Language Gambling
The Gemstone Bible
This term is used to refer to the
nontraditional ways a country can influence
another’s country’s wants, or its public’s
values.”
Soft Power
This is one drawback of the racial politics of representation, which is Lori Kido Lopez's critique of the "racebending" movement.
The search for "authenticity" leads to an "essentialized or fixed notion of Asia," creating a slippery slope in determining who does and does not "count" as Asian.
In the video Inhuman Figures shown in lecture, Michelle Huang draws an analogy between Asian Americans and these three figures...
Robots, Clones, & Aliens
Ai Jiang deliberately inhibits the reader's understanding of the dialogue and contexts in these two ways.
Blanked out words and untranslated Chinese characters.
In Severance, when Candace tours the factory in China, the operations director Balthazar makes a reference to this American children's book as an analogy of U.S capitalism and excessive consumption.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The emergence of the modern term "kawaii" coincides with what youth-led phenomenon?
Cute Handwriting
These four ethnicities are the cultural inspirations behind the Air, Fire, Earth, and Water nations in Avatar The Last Airbender
Tibet, Japan, China, and the Inuit
Alice Sola Kim's horror story, "Successor, Usurper, Replacement" is a commentary on this phenomenon in the publishing industry.
Racial Tokenism in publishing.
This is the name of the thought experiment on machine learning invented by John Searle that was premised on the inscrutability of the Chinese language.
The Chinese Room
Image From The Arrival
Assimilation
"Cute fashion was, therefore, a kind of rebellion or refusal to соoperate with established social values and realities."
This passage comes from the article titled, "Cuties in Japan," which was authored by this scholar.
Sharon Kinsella
According to Sunaina Maira, the consumption of Indo-chic, or the commodification of orientalism has this effect on the dominant perception of South Asians, or racial "Others" in general.
Indo-chic does the political and symbolic work of domesticating difference:
"Ethnic difference . . . can be consumed and made safe, in a sense, its threatening foreignness now neutralized” (237)
In Franny Choi's "Imitation Games," Choi refers to this adapted parlor game created by a British Scientist to determine whether machines can think.
The Turing Test
Ai Jiang's "Give Me English" is a parable for this phenomenon
Acculturation for immigrants
At the Facility, Candace is locked up in this store.
L'Occitane