1.1 BUT WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM?

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Release 1.1:

BUT WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM?

1.2 "BWAYRF" Call For Submission

NEW! 1.2 (more) But Where Are You REALLY From Call for Submissions. The theme of our first release was so popular, we've decided to do a second run of new stories! Please send any proposals, greetings, ideas and pitches no later than February 22nd, 2010. We encourage early submissions!

Part VI: Really Not That Simple

Globetrotter Paul Dhillon explores the identity of a "world-travelling, internationally-employed and culturally-blended generation" of Canadians.

Part V: Same same, but different

A 1.5 Gen's story of adaption and negotiating between being the same and yet undeniably different from the rest of her Asian-looking-English-speaking peers.

Part IV : Oh, really? You were born in Guelph?

Toronto-based entrepreneur Araba Ocran-Caesar shares her strategy to evading the ethnic-answer when asked some of the more clever variations of "where are you really from?" ... all disguises to the real question on peoples' mind: "Where is the non-white part is from?"

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Saving Earth, One Milk Bag At A Time

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Students Teaching Diversity Through Sound and Movement

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Marathonologue at Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad

Get your tickets to Marathonologue, a show that celebrates the athlete in action—in this case the Japanese marathon winner of the 2000 Olympics, who is said to have taken "killer hornet" extract before she raced. Bagpipes and the animated silhouette of a running woman will surely transform New Year's Resolution slackers into willing athletes.

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TONIGHT: An Evening With Gary Fong & Friends

Are You Having FONG Yet? If you don't have anything to do tonight, come out! And if you already have plans, who cares, break 'em! TONIGHT, join Gary Fong and Friends for an evening at the Vogue Theatre Vancouver. Honestly, is there a better way to start the weekend than attending a "Fong"-filled night of comedic education?!

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"Asian Eyes" on Maybelline's MNY Club

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