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		<title>If I were a world leader and had a Facebook page&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hu Jianto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimg Jong Ill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social-networking got a big boost last week when the White House entered the Twitter fray with its first ever tweet about the swine flu. The Obama Administration has been pushing Washington to utilize and master the universe of cyberspace as a way to promote government transparency and accessibility. I&#8217;m neither President Obama&#8217;s Facebook friend nor am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/culture/earth-day-2009</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compact fluorescent lights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth Day 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Information Administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[solar power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[typical household electricity usage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Earth Day. There are many things we can do to be good caretakers of this planet and to be ever more aware of the impact human activity has on the environment. It wasn&#8217;t until recently that I became aware of how much electricity I waste in a typical day. With all our appliances, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of the model minority</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/the-world/the-model-minority</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/the-world/the-model-minority#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian American]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binghamton shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[colonialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[model minority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myth of the model minority]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Another mass shooting. This time in Binghamton, New York, and the alleged gunman is Asian American. This is the second of such shooting where the perpetrator is Asian American. When news of the Virginia Tech tragedy first broke two years ago, I did not believe for the longest time the gunman was a fellow Asian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconciliation blues</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/reconciliation-blues</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/politics/reconciliation-blues#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norwuz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday night around 11:55 p.m., just five minutes before the Iranian New Year, Norwuz, the White House release a video wishing Iranians around the world, especially those in Iran, a happy new year. The message is conciliatory and groundbreaking, with Obama asking Iran to pursue a new day of engagement and dialog with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Semaphoric</title>
		<link>http://www.semaphoric.org/miscellany/introducing-semaphoric</link>
		<comments>http://www.semaphoric.org/miscellany/introducing-semaphoric#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Asian American ecclesiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hybridity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[postcolonial discourse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[secularization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Hu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transnationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So it begins: this blog was set to launch at the start of 2009 when procrastination took over the better of me. Although this first post dates back to January, it took some three months to get this project off the ground. I&#8217;m still putting this blog through its paces — there are a number of [...]]]></description>
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