China's success fitted not only with his own philosophy but with the increasing emphasis in Singapore on its predominantly Chinese, as distinct from multiracial, character.
It is, to many of its 800 members, a slice of heaven on earth, a church whose spirituality is magnified by its multiracial character.
The British campaign against the African slave trade not only launched the modern concern for human rights as an international principle, but today offers a usable past for a society increasingly aware of its multiracial character.
A real advantage is the Asian food that can be enjoyed, and because of the multiracial character of Singapore, this includes the cuisines of China, India, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.
Akhtar, a Muslim playwright, screenwriter, and novelist born and raised in the U.S., gathered his multiracial characters at a fateful dinner party with both comic and tragic consequences.
Sea of Poppies blows its multiracial characters together across numerous oceans, their stories drawing together the great tides of global trade in opium and the imperial expansion that sent huge numbers of Indians abroad, and Britain to war with China.
It's in YA literature where multiracial characters who are more than their ethnicities are most often appearing these days, and it's great to see these stories get adapted into films.
"Every time McCoy would say, you're half-human, and Spock would say, I'm also half-Vulcan, I was like, 'Yeah, I get that.'" In his film "Lilo & Me" (2003), Mr. Fulbeck posits Spock as possibly the "one semi-multiracial character" on TV — then cuts to a scene in which Kirk, trying to shock his first officer out of a drug-induced haze, calls him a "mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed".
Is there a happy medium between the two?" The character has inspired multiracial artists, writers and scholars almost since his inception.
History will not remember "The Fast and The Furious" as a work of art, but it will be the pioneering franchise that allowed a multiracial cast, predominately Latinos, to take center stage as full-fledged characters and not as caricatures of themselves - pillaging the box office in the process.
Her story's characters are as diverse as their real-life counterparts in Prospect Park: multiracial families headed by straight or gay parents; nannies and their charges; an elderly couple who've not only grown to look like each other but who also resemble their stoop-shouldered, geriatric dog.
