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South Asia: Macaca, YouTube and Elections

Categories: South Asia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Citizen Media, Elections

Quite a few blogs have had a reaction to the elections in the US. Sepia Mutiny [1] 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.”