“What’s for dinner?”, father Bart asks his wife Ilse as she walks into the kitchen. She sets down a big blue shopping bag on the table, “Asian”. As if by magic, the blinds come down and a flaming wok, neon lights and a golden maneki-neko appear
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An evening of karaoke sounds innocent enough. But what about when the whole experience is built on the exoticisation of a culture, without giving anything back to that very same community? The popular karaoke bar Duke of Tokyo, with branches in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam, is
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Asian Raisins needs your help! East and Southeast Asian Dutch people experience anti-Asian racism on a daily basis. The so-called birthday song "Hanky Panky Shanghai" is the epitome of how normal anti-Asian racism is in the Netherlands. Today it is often said by people that; Hanky
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