South Asia: Macaca, YouTube and Elections · Global Voices
Neha Viswanathan

Quite a few blogs have had a reaction to the elections in the US. Sepia Mutiny reflects on the Macaca incident that was widely blogged. “There was a bit of gallows humor following the “macaca” gaffe that the use of racial slurs might actually help George Allen, but that turned out to be totally false: Virginia is changing. There are now a decent number of South Asians in Virginia – 77,000 – and a significant subset of them are voting American citizens.”