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andromedasummer · 1 year

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one thing i love about my uni is even when the subject we are studying is about far away country or ultra specific phenomenon theres always a book in the syllabus, published by the university, by a member of that country and/or culture, by an expert on that special subject, who happened to attend my university too. who's lived in the same cities i have.

#i just really like reading books by new zealanders on international subjects #the current one is for my post-colonial lit course #the focus for this is specifically on post-colonial writings by koreans #and joanna cho is the author whose poetry book im reading right now.#shes south korean and a new zealander and has lived in both places #and her writing is good at focusing on comfortable moments in time #but also indecision and the fear of making the wrong choices #it also is very good at encapsulating the specific racism so many people from asia are subjected to hete #its very bad. anti-chinese and anti-indian sentiments are held by far too many people. and because of ignorance that gets directed towards #korean japanese filipino and any person who looks ''asian'' enough for someone to let out repugnantly casual racism towards #all in all this has been a good read so far im 1/3 through and i really enjoy her writing style #i think shes my favourite poet ive read in any of the poetry courses ive taken

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