8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Ronny Chieng & Old Spice’s “The Expert”
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Asians Behaving Badly: Edward Younghoon Shin Alledgedly Murders Business Partner & Blogs About It
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A Guide To A Buddhist/Chinese/American Funeral
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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Author Archives: Jeff
US Department of Justice sues Yale University for Discrimination against Whites and Asian Americans
The US Department of Justice has notified Yale University that they are in violation of the law, saying Yale’s admissions process discriminates against white and Asian students. In this letter, the DOJ attorney Eric Dreiband cites a two year investigation … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Education
Tagged college admissions, US Department of Justice, yale university
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Collin Morikawa wins the 2020 PGA Championship
23 year old Collin Morikawa won the 2020 PGA Championship on August 9, 2020, joining Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and Jack Nicholas as one of the youngest ever winners of the tournament. While I am not a fan of golf, … Continue reading
Asian American Cultural Landmarks: The San Gabriel Valley and Beyond
While conflicts have increased about American historical monuments and landmarks, especially regarding statues of slave owners or institutions named after racists, this article from Hyperallergic asks, what kind of cultural landmarks do Asian Americans establish? In “In American’s “First Suburban … Continue reading
COVID-19’s Disproportional Impact on Asian American Employment
A recent report published by UCLA finds that Asian Americans workers have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. As shown above in the graph above, Asian American unemployment rates and jobless rates were at one point lower than that of whites, … Continue reading
Why there are so Many Filipino Nurses in the US: A Video Explanation
We talked about how Filipino American nurses have been hard hit by the Coronavirus, which makes sense since they are a significant proportion of the US nursing workforce compared to their proportion of the general US population. How did that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, History, Labor
Tagged Catherine Ceniza Choy, coronavirus, COVID-19, Filipino nurses
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Grant Imahara, Engineer and Host of Mythbusters, Dead at 49
Grant Masaru Imahara, host of Mythbusters, died on July 13, 2020 of a brain aneurysm. One thing I loved about him was that not only was he a handsome and affable TV host, he was a working engineer and an … Continue reading
Fastest Growing Foreign Language in the US is an Indian Language You Might not Expect
The fastest growing Foreign Language in the US as of 2018, according to this study by the Center for Immigration, is Telegu. I was surprised, thinking it would be Chinese or Tagalog, but numbers of speakers does not equate with … Continue reading
Asian American Commercial Watch: The Fighting Spirit of Anderson Paak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhzkIblnuc4 I first heard of Anderson .Paak from Number One Son and Number Two Son, but I didn’t bother to find anything about him until I saw him featured in this commercial for Modelo beer. “Fighting Spirit” is definitely an … Continue reading
8mm Review: Brittany Runs a Marathon – an “Asian American-y” Movie
While the main character of Brittany Runs a Marathon is definitely not Asian American, two major characters in Brittany’s life are Asian American and are interesting enough to make this, in the words of Stacy Nguyen, an Asian American-y movie. … Continue reading
Posted in 8mm Film Review
Tagged Alice Lee, Brittany Runs a Marathon, Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Amdbudkar
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A Remarkable Search: “A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather”
Long hidden family secrets, an African American journalist’s deathbed request, and the Japanese American internment – all these seemingly unconnected elements connect to create a moving and timely documentary about a man taken away by the authorities and never again … Continue reading
Chinatown Block Watch: Fighting Xenophobia in New York’s Chinatown
In response to xenophobic attacks in New York’s Chinatown, activist Karlin Chan formed Chinatown Block Watch. He is interviewed here in an episode of PBS’s Brief but Spectacular (included is a transcript of the interview). In a Bowery Boogie interview, … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Local, New York
Tagged Chinatown Block Watch, coronavirus, COVID-19, Karlin Chan, New York Chinatown
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Awkwafina, Andrew Yang, and Dino-Ray Ramos make the A100 list of Influential Asians
For the past three years, Gold House has published the A100 list of Asians and Asian Americans who have been highly influential in the past year. 2020’s list includes well known people like Awkwafina and Andrew Yang, plus others that … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Entertainment
Tagged A100, Andrew Yang, Awkfina, Dino-Ray Ramos, Gold House
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