Jennifer Ho demonstrates in Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism. Race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties. Being a vampire, he has committed some of the most heinous crimes, but he constantly tries to control his bloodlust. Stefan has been a morally ambiguous character throughout the show. He was turned into a vampire by his 'lover' at that time, Katerina Petrova, and who is also the doppelgnger of Elena. And it discusses Tiger Woods, the most famous mixed-race Asian American, whose description of himself as “Cablinasian”-reflecting his background as Black, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American-perfectly captures the ambiguity of racial classifications. Stefan Salvatore is Silas' doppelgnger and one of the protagonists of The Vampire Diaries. For those that have an ambiguous appearance, a racial label of biracial is usually validated by. An ally with a very personal interest in Caroline's humanity. Skin color or hair texture is used as markers of ethnicity. At their wits' end, her friends decide to seek help from the most unlikely of allies. It looks at the blogs of Korean, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese Americans who were adopted as children by white American families and have conflicted feelings about their “honorary white” status. Inconsolable over her mother's death, Caroline turns her back on Mystic Falls and on her humanity. The narrative has a very strange way of acknowledging Bonnies race, usually under times when doing so conveniently distances her from the other female stars. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. I know that area of the world is very ethnically mixed and ambiguous, so who knows what her actual racial makeup is. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Nina Dobrev of 'The Vampire Diaries' is Bulgarian, and refers to herself as white, though she could easily pass for Latina or Arabic/Middle Eastern or even Indian.
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