Has international media coverage of Hawker murder peddled an ugly strand of uninformed stereotyping?
14-11-2009
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The Guardian has featured a letter to the editor by Jenny Holt, a lecturer at Meiji University who believes that the international media has used the Lindsay Hawker murder case as an excuse to “indulge in practically the only form of overt racism still tolerated today – the demonisation and denigration, en masse, of Japanese [...]
The Guardian has featured a letter to the editor by Jenny Holt, a lecturer at Meiji University who believes that the international media has used the Lindsay Hawker murder case as an excuse to “indulge in practically the only form of overt racism still tolerated today – the demonisation and denigration, en masse, of Japanese [...]
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