As physically unthreatening as my mother is, her verbal artillery is quite intimidating. After threatening to send me back to Asia if I limited myself to befriending only Koreans, I became so fixated on being diverse that I shied away from my own people. Read more...

His faint smile transformed into a look of utter confusion as the girl stopped and gave him an equally confused stare. Pretending not to see the awkward situation, I entered through another set of doors. Read more...

DURBAN, South Africa “”mdash; Besides being basically across the globe from each other, the United States and South Africa have a lot of things in common, including a recent history of racial segregation and a mechanism of trying to make amends for that history ­”“ racial affirmative action. Read more...

Bruin Republicans are open, diverse Is the religious right splitting conservatives? As David Lazar pointed out in his column (“Religious right splits conservatives,” Oct. 20), social conservatives and social moderates within the Republican Party have been split in the past. Read more...

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“No man is an island,” you may have read in high school. “Unless,” poet John Donne should have written, “he lives in Westwood.” Castaway stories aren’t uncommon. Read more...

You know what we need? More jackasses in politics. Sure, the right has plenty of rude, obnoxious talking heads, but what about the liberals? Our stock of crazy people is pathetic by comparison. Read more...