Essays

Perfume and Japan’s Gender Identity
2019-12-19 08:53:40 UTC
As society construct gender identity, gender-specific products such as perfumes react to how gender is identified in society. Brian Moeran demonstrated that through fragrance descriptions and gender identity and ideals seen in Japan through this article. Japan still has a prominent gender gap — seen from their wage gap, sexual…

Weiwei’s “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn” (1995) justified actions of destroying a cultural relic
2019-12-19 08:52:33 UTC
With all great nations, there are hidden events within their historic past. While governments can destroy evidence and censor information, the memories of the people are deeply embedded into their memories. Within the last fifty years, The People’s Republic of China has gone through dramatic changes that has transformed the…

Racialization of Asians in the western society and how it affects gay Asian men’s identity
2019-12-19 08:50:02 UTC
Since the first contact between the Eastern and Western world, there has been a Western representation of Asians that has affected Asians and Asian-Americans to this day. The racialized view of Asians —that was created by the western fascination with the ‘erotic’ otherness of Asians— has created stereotypes and a…

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