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In the diverse American population, racial prejudice still remains a disturbing actuality. With the ever-increasing rate of Asians in the United States having better jobs, better income, and better education, Asian American women have never been at a better bargaining point to move their social standing in the society at a higher rank and aspire toward true assimilation. Intermarriage via selective desired traits that can help the Asian American woman trump their racial limitations, hence disadvantages. Okamoto's theoretical perspective to develop a boundary approach to the conventional winnowing hypothesis, intermarriage becomes an indicator of integration. Hall's eurogamy premise posits that most important of such desirable traits of prospective men being Euro-American can help Asian women blur the racial differences, hence bring them to the mainstream. This study suggests that in United States, there exists still substantial homogamy and in the absence of homogamy there is a similar pattern of exogamy, or more specifically eurogamy among Asian American women depicting and showing a clear tendency to marry up. It suggested that eurogamy is likely to continue as a means to marry up. Thus, there will be a continuation of said increase as the population of younger, better educated, independent Asian American women expands, hence resulting in the perfect marital assimilation.

Asian nonalignment (NA) originated in the att's of Asian nat'lists toward inter-European conflicts. As long as the West refused to accept NA as a viable policy for the new nations of Asia, the inherent diff's of att's & emphases in policy among them remained subdued. With the gradual acceptance of NA by the great powers, the diff's among the nonaligned have become manifest. A new challenge is posed to the foreign policies of the new nations of Asia by the emergence of China as a major power. In the changed situation, the erstwhile att's remain only partly relevant; there is greater awareness of the inevitable role of power in internat'l pol. The search in Asia today is for an independent Asian balance of power. In so far as the extent of the role of non-Asian great powers in this balance remains undetermined, a new problem exists of getting Asian NA accepted by outside powers. HA.

Beijing's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank appears to be a "game changer" in the political economy of East Asia. In an era when the US superpower and Japan are facing fiscal problems, China has ample funds to woo Asian states seeking economic development. Notwithstanding its maritime disputes in the South China Sea with some ASEAN states, Beijing has offered the carrot of development as a means to serve its geopolitical ends.

Crazy Rich Asians (2018), a box-office hit in North America, provoked celebration particularly from Asian American commentators and actors. Shot in Singapore and Malaysia with an Asian and Asian American cast, it was a success too in Singapore itself and in territories such as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia but not in East Asia's largest markets, those of China, Japan and South Korea. Focusing on the phenomenon of Crazy Rich Asians' release, particularly its engagement with and circulation in East and Southeast Asia and its polarized reception among different Asian American and Asian communities, this article traces a series of discursive flashpoints to understand the film's position in Asian and Asian American film culture. Arguing that the fortunes of US releases with Asian and Asian American casts reveal cosmopolitanism's invisible borders, the article proposes a model of pan-Asian screen cosmopolitanism. This model recognizes that even globally hybrid screen texts such as Crazy Rich Asians bear cultural markers that may inhibit their appeal in territories with shared ethnic heritages but discrete social histories.