本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Regarding the racist articles about Asian students published on Macleans and Toronto Star.
Here are some information you might need to digest and take your actions.
All the contact information of related parties can be found on the Internet, thus public.
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Actions: I suggest you do at least the following things:
1. Spread these information to as many people as possible, and let's make things happen.
2. Write to Macleans and Toronto Star
- To protest against the publication of articles inciting racism and racial hatred;
- To Request formal apologies and corrective actions to counter-act the negative effect of the mentioned articles;
- To request the firing of the authors / editor in chief who wrote and published these articles;
3. Write to your MPPs, City Consellers, whatever political figures that you can reach, to express your deep concerns about this act of racism reflected by mainstream media. We have deep concerns that the education authorities might be influenced by these kind of racism and change the rules and regulations to make them unfair for intelligent and hard-working students, including hard-working Asian students.
4. Contact Maria Yau at TDSB, and express your concerns, since she is in charge of education system in Toronto and she should be sensible and responsible in what she is saying in public.
5. Unsubscribe from Macleans and Toronto Star immediately. Don't wait till you were asked, just explicitly tell them, better in written form, the reason why you want to be removed from their subscriber's list.
6. consider legal actions agains Macleans and Toronto Star. This needs our team work!
Take action now, do not procrastinate, do not wait. Anyone who is concerned about this issue is free to contribute with more ideas!!!
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Maclean's article: Too Asian?
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/10/too-asian/
(Note:
The subtitle of the article is: 'Worries that efforts in the U.S. to limit enrollment of Asian students in top universities may migrate to Canada'
Now you bet what's behind the intent of the authors of this article! To me it looks like they should have made it even clearer that they 'Hope that efforts in the U.S. to limit enrollment of Asian students in top universities may migrate to Canada' !!!
)
The article in Toronto Star (Nov 10 2010): Asian students suffering for success
http://www.thestar.com/article/888368--asian-students-being-forced-into-university-maclean-s
(This article quoted part of Maclean's article mentioned above, selectively picked the racism contents, it's even worse than the Maclean's article.
And it also quoted what Maria Yau, research coordinator at TDSB, have said, and based on that it said that 'parents of Asian background are coming underfire from their own community for pushing their children into university programs for which many have no real interest or talent...'
)
FYI.
Our society is far from free of racism. Check out this video to see what happened about 30 years ago:
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/racism/clips/9248/
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General email contacts of Macleans and Toronto Star:
letters@macleans.ca
city@thestar.ca
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Maria Yau's contact:
Maria Yau
Chair, External Research Review Committee
Toronto District School Board
1 Civic Centre Court, Lower Level
Etobicoke, ON M9C 2B3
Direct questions to: Maria Yau (416) 394-4951 or maria.yau@tdsb.on.ca
Note: It's public contact information posted on TDSB website:
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/about_us/external_research_application/docs/rrc_guidelines.pdf
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Author1 of article on MacLeans: Stephanie Findlay
(Based on profile found http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/stephanie-findlay/a/9aa/349 , now the profile is no longer available)
Current Staff at The Ubyssey
Past Intern at Maclean's magazine
Education The University of British Columbia
Connections 33 connections Industry Primary/Secondary Education
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Stephanie Findlay’s Experience
Staff
The Ubyssey
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
2007 — Present (3 years )
Served as volunteer coordinator from 2007-2008.
Was News Editor from 2008-2009.
Staff member from 2009-2010.
Intern
Maclean's magazine
(Media Production industry)
May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)
Intern at Maclean's magazine
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Stephanie Findlay’s Education
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts , Political Science , 2006 — 2010
Activities and Societies: The Ubyssey, Journalists for Human Rights, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, Women and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association, Journal of International Affairs
http://ubyssey.ca/about/
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Author2 of article on MacLeans: Nicholas Kohler (Nicholas Köhler)
Till now I can only find his name on this list:
http://www2.macleans.ca/about-macleans/
Note that he is listed as one of the 'Bureaus'.
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Author of article on Toronto Star: Louise Brown (Education Reporter)
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Here are some information you might need to digest and take your actions.
All the contact information of related parties can be found on the Internet, thus public.
********************************************************
Actions: I suggest you do at least the following things:
1. Spread these information to as many people as possible, and let's make things happen.
2. Write to Macleans and Toronto Star
- To protest against the publication of articles inciting racism and racial hatred;
- To Request formal apologies and corrective actions to counter-act the negative effect of the mentioned articles;
- To request the firing of the authors / editor in chief who wrote and published these articles;
3. Write to your MPPs, City Consellers, whatever political figures that you can reach, to express your deep concerns about this act of racism reflected by mainstream media. We have deep concerns that the education authorities might be influenced by these kind of racism and change the rules and regulations to make them unfair for intelligent and hard-working students, including hard-working Asian students.
4. Contact Maria Yau at TDSB, and express your concerns, since she is in charge of education system in Toronto and she should be sensible and responsible in what she is saying in public.
5. Unsubscribe from Macleans and Toronto Star immediately. Don't wait till you were asked, just explicitly tell them, better in written form, the reason why you want to be removed from their subscriber's list.
6. consider legal actions agains Macleans and Toronto Star. This needs our team work!
Take action now, do not procrastinate, do not wait. Anyone who is concerned about this issue is free to contribute with more ideas!!!
*****************************************
Maclean's article: Too Asian?
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/11/10/too-asian/
(Note:
The subtitle of the article is: 'Worries that efforts in the U.S. to limit enrollment of Asian students in top universities may migrate to Canada'
Now you bet what's behind the intent of the authors of this article! To me it looks like they should have made it even clearer that they 'Hope that efforts in the U.S. to limit enrollment of Asian students in top universities may migrate to Canada' !!!
)
The article in Toronto Star (Nov 10 2010): Asian students suffering for success
http://www.thestar.com/article/888368--asian-students-being-forced-into-university-maclean-s
(This article quoted part of Maclean's article mentioned above, selectively picked the racism contents, it's even worse than the Maclean's article.
And it also quoted what Maria Yau, research coordinator at TDSB, have said, and based on that it said that 'parents of Asian background are coming underfire from their own community for pushing their children into university programs for which many have no real interest or talent...'
)
FYI.
Our society is far from free of racism. Check out this video to see what happened about 30 years ago:
http://archives.cbc.ca/society/racism/clips/9248/
*****************************************
General email contacts of Macleans and Toronto Star:
letters@macleans.ca
city@thestar.ca
*****************************************
Maria Yau's contact:
Maria Yau
Chair, External Research Review Committee
Toronto District School Board
1 Civic Centre Court, Lower Level
Etobicoke, ON M9C 2B3
Direct questions to: Maria Yau (416) 394-4951 or maria.yau@tdsb.on.ca
Note: It's public contact information posted on TDSB website:
http://www.tdsb.on.ca/about_us/external_research_application/docs/rrc_guidelines.pdf
*****************************************
Author1 of article on MacLeans: Stephanie Findlay
(Based on profile found http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/stephanie-findlay/a/9aa/349 , now the profile is no longer available)
Current Staff at The Ubyssey
Past Intern at Maclean's magazine
Education The University of British Columbia
Connections 33 connections Industry Primary/Secondary Education
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephanie Findlay’s Experience
Staff
The Ubyssey
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
2007 — Present (3 years )
Served as volunteer coordinator from 2007-2008.
Was News Editor from 2008-2009.
Staff member from 2009-2010.
Intern
Maclean's magazine
(Media Production industry)
May 2009 — August 2009 (4 months)
Intern at Maclean's magazine
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stephanie Findlay’s Education
The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts , Political Science , 2006 — 2010
Activities and Societies: The Ubyssey, Journalists for Human Rights, Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, Women and Gender Studies Undergraduate Association, Journal of International Affairs
http://ubyssey.ca/about/
*****************************************
Author2 of article on MacLeans: Nicholas Kohler (Nicholas Köhler)
Till now I can only find his name on this list:
http://www2.macleans.ca/about-macleans/
Note that he is listed as one of the 'Bureaus'.
*****************************************
Author of article on Toronto Star: Louise Brown (Education Reporter)
?更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net