Context: The informant is a Pakistani-American 11-year-old girl and a 6th grader at a public school in Torrance, CA. The following clapping rhyme is a two-person game she learned in first grade. Content: “I went to a Chinese restaurant To buy a loaf of bread, bread, bread She asked me what my name was And… Continue Reading »
Context: The informant is an 11 year old girl of Pakistani descent. She is a 6th grader at a public school in Torrance, CA. Her social groups include friends of many different religious and ethnic backgrounds. The following clapping rhyme is a two-person game she learned in first grade. Content: “Lemonade, iced tea Coca-cola, Pepsi Lemonade,… Continue Reading »
The informant is a college-age male whose parents are both originally from Pakistan. He has lived in Southern California all his life, with frequent trips to Pakistan to visit extended family. Although he graduated from a public high school, he attended a private Islamic elementary school until the third grade. He says there were Muslims… Continue Reading »
Context: The informant is a young professional who graduated from UCLA in 2012. She relays that the acronym for her school had the unofficial meaning of the “University of Cute Little Asians”. Analysis: A quick search of the UCLA website’s enrollment statistics shows that the ethnic category with the highest enrollment is those who have checked… Continue Reading »
Informant: “We have a Summer Solstice parade which is pretty wild too, but that doesn’t have anything to do with Fiesta. That’s a weird parade. I can’t even… It’s literally– the point of it is to be as weird as you physically, possibly can. There are people in, like, snow globes and they have, like,… Continue Reading »