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Category Archives: Business
Asian American Commercial Watch: Transamerica – A Promotion at Work is the Time to Invest
http://youtu.be/Y82_fmVUQDw I saw this commercial as well during March Madness, with a fictional Susan getting a promotion and thinking now she can invest in her financial future, in this Transmerica television commercial. However, I think this commercial sends the wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Entertainment, TV
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As Tech Transforms San Francisco, Elderly Filipino Man fights Eviction
Much as been written about how the recent tech boom is transforming San Francisco and the resulting backlash. We hear about protests of Google buses and artists leaving for Oakland (and perhaps pushing out other artists), but this New American … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination, Real Estate
Tagged Benito Santiago, elderly, Ellis Act, evictions, Google, San Francisco
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A Look at Asian American Income Disparities and Variation: “Reading Between the Data”
When this report from Nielsen came out a few months ago about how Asian Americans are a wealthy sophisticated group with above average household income that marketers should target, it seemed to me that the people who compiled that report … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Family
Tagged Center for American Progress, disaggregation, household size, income, statistics
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First Asian Pacific American Worker Congress To Be Held in Los Angeles
On Saturday, March 15, 2014, the first Asian Pacific American Worker Congress in Los Angeles will be held at the Service Employees International Union #721 at 1545 Wilshire Blvd. from 9:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. More than 100 Asian American … Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Southern California
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Is Japanese American Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto the Founder of Bitcoin? Reporters Chase Him Across Los Angeles
One of the biggest stories of the day today is that Newsweek’s Leah McGrath Goodman revealed the alleged true identity of the supposed founder of Bitcoin, which had been credited to “Satoshi Nakamoto.” In the detailed investigative report, the article … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Southern California, Technology
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Singing Couple Achieves Fame in Six Seconds
Asian Americans have made themselves known through YouTube videos, but can fame be achieved when those videos are only six seconds? Michael and Carissa Alvarado, a husband and wife team making up the group Us, have gained notoriety by using … Continue reading
Health, Appearances, and Asian Americans
The incident where Maria Kang was briefly kicked off of Facebook, recent news about the “lower” rate of obesity among Asian Americans, and the debate on CNN above combine to bring up a subject that isn’t often discussed: … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health, Health and Beauty, Lifestyles, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged BMI, Chrystal Bougon, Curvy Girl, fitness, Maria Kang
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Pantene Philippines Commercial: Labels Against Women
I was pleasantly surprised to see this video from Pantene Philippines talking about double standards against women. Not that the double standards don’t exist, but that this message would come out of what is a generally anti-intellectual culture in a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Discrimination, TV
Tagged double standards, labels, Pantene, Philippines, sexism
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Real Estate Prices May Threaten Future Of San Francisco’s Chinatown
If you’ve been living in the San Francisco Bay Area, you probably know that the economy is probably the strongest in the U.S. and the economy, at least in the tech sector, is booming. There is no greater example of … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Local, Real Estate, San Francisco Bay Area
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Abercrombie & Fitch Sales Decline: How Disrespecting Diversity can be Bad for Business
After managing to alienate significant numbers of Asians, Asian Americans, Muslims, African Americans, Hispanics, overweight, and disabled people, Abercrombie & Fitch has found – surprise – that declining sales forced it into a quarterly loss. In an attempt to regain … Continue reading
Dealing with Diversity: Gap responds to the Racist Defacement of an Ad
Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at The Islamic Monthly, posted a picture of this defaced Gap advertisement on his twitter account. This ad featured Sikh-American designer Waris Ahluwalia and model/filmmaker Quentin Jones. What, if anything, would the Gap do?
Posted in Business, Discrimination, Fashion, Lifestyles, Religion
Tagged Arsalan Iftikhar, Gap, Quentin Jones, Waris Ahluwalia
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Apple Factories in America: Plenty of East Asians in Tech, but Few in Upper Management
by Leeland Lee After its recent I.P.O. filing, Twitter provoked an outcry over the lack of women among its board of directors and senior management. Time Magazine declared that “Twitter’s all-male board spells failure,” while The New York Times pointed … Continue reading
Posted in Business, San Francisco Bay Area, Tech
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