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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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Category Archives: Business
Giant Robot in Financial Trouble, Starts Support Drive
If I asked you, Mister/Ms. Asian American, to name an Asian American magazine — any Asian American magazine — you could probably come up with a list of a couple: Hyphen, KoreAm, and a couple of now-defunct print magazines as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, The Arts
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Tuned into: Tobi & TobiTV (A Must-See!)
Disgrasian.com recently blogged a BABEWATCH spotlight on Catherine Chow and Corina Nurimba, the co-founders of Tobi.com. I instantly recognized Catherine as the woman who also co-founded [with Corina] the San Francisco-based Azalea Boutique in 2003. I’m no fashionisto — as many … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Fashion, Lifestyles, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
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Chinese Looky Lous – Looking at US Real Estate but not Buying?
Last year, during the depths of the financial crises, groups of investors from China toured the US looking at real estate opportunities. While many in the US real estate industry hoped that this would bring a wave of Chinese buying, … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Business, Local, Real Estate, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Chinese buyers, Looky Lous, real estate
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Indian Americans taking a hit during the Recession
Of the many people affected by the recession, some not typically thought about are Indian Americans. Just a few years ago, Indian Americans were lauded for their success in the hotel and motel industry, owning 43% of all hotels and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Local, New York, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged closed banks, Fremont California, hotels, Indian Americans, motels, recession, taxi drivers, theaters
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Asians More Likely to Use Online Banking
Nielsen recently released a study showing that Asian Americans are much more likely to use online banking than other ethnic groups. 75.3% of Asians bank online versus 67.4% for everyone else. In addition, the younger and more affluent tend to … Continue reading
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CEO of Zappos.com Tony Hsieh Asks “How Weird Are You?”
Every Sunday, The New York Times has a column where it interviews an executive about the challenges of leading and managing, and this past Sunday the Times interviewed Harvard educated Taiwanese American Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (now a wholly … Continue reading
Taiwan’s HTC: Quietly Brilliant
If you own a cell phone, there is a good chance your phone was designed and/or manufactured by the Taiwanese company HTC. Never heard of HTC? That’s alright, most people haven’t. For most of their 12+ year existence, HTC has … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Observations, Technology
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Is “Lee” a White, Black, or Asian Surname? Facebook Finds Out
When you see the surname Lee, you don’t know the ethnicity of the person with that name. Robert E., Spike, and Bruce – they are all Lees . There is even a Facebook group called “My surname is Lee but … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Technology
Tagged Bruce Lee, diversity, Facebook, marketing, Robert E. Lee, Spike Lee
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The Netbook Phenomenon
My mom told me that when I was younger, she worried that I would be the one child who didn’t get to travel, didn’t get to see the world. Both my sisters had already done Europe before they graduated from … Continue reading
Battling to Make Bruce Lee a Lucrative Brand
Earlier in the year I blogged about How Bruce Lee Changed the World. And now Shannon Lee — Bruce Lee’s daughter — is trying to expand and profit more from his legacy, as described recently in the Wall Street Journal: … Continue reading
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