From: "Salil Tripathi" <salil61-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Race/Color & Thinking modes-details Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:46:10 +0000 Likewise, coconut, in Singapore and Malaysia, implies brown Englishmen, or the ethnic Indian gentry. It is used in a tone meant to ridicule. There was another term that turned the "banana" epithet around: boiled egg -- it stood for white outside, yellow inside, referring to what SE Asia refers to as Caucasians (meaning white) who were, at heart, sympathetic to, or sycophantic towards, the East Asian worldview. Salil _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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