8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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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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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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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: Current Events
Casting calls, Monolids, and Plastic Surgery
Paladino Casting recently apologized for the “no monolids” casting call shown here after being called out by Simu Liu on Twitter. I think that Dino Ray Ramos put it best when he said that they were basically looking for Asians … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Discrimination
Tagged monolid, Paladino Casting, plastic surgery, Simu Liu
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Medium: The Potential Power of Asian-American Voters in the 2020 Election
Image source: The potential power of Asian-American voters in the 2020 election When I saw this Medium article posted titled “The potential power of Asian-American voters in the 2020 election,” I was reminded of and learned some interesting and frustrating … Continue reading
2020 Asian American Voter Survey (AAVS) Results
The 2020 election is coming up, and every presidential election cycle the non-profit and non-partisan group AAPI Data does their Asian American Voter Survey (AAVS). 2020 is no different, and AAPI Data released the results of their survey recently. The … Continue reading
California Asian Americans divided on Proposition 16, which would reestablish Affirmative Action in California
On November 3, 2020, one of the ballot measures that Californians will vote on is Proposition 16, which would reestablish the use of race in public education, employment, and contracts. The use of race in these areas was prohibited in … 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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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
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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Filipino American Nurses and Medical Workers Hit Hard by Coronavirus
If you are a Filipino American, it is highly likely that you know lots of nurses and other medical workers. It also is highly likely that news that that Filipino American nurses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 Pandemic … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Health
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Diabetes, Filipino-Americans, hypertension, Nurses
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CAAMFest Online: Heritage at Home – May 13-22, 2020
When I first moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and then eventually discovered the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), now known as CAAMFest (CAAM = Center of Asian American Media), is one of my favorite annual … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Events, Local, Movies, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged CAAM, CAAMFest
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Passing Pauses: Reflections on a Single Death in a New York City ER
When patient M.M. died during her shift, Emergency Room Nurse Laura Ng didn’t feel much at the moment. Only after she had a day off did she have a chance to do some justice to that death. Of the accounts … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Local, New York
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, Emergency room, New York City
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