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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My Visit to San Francisco’s Angel Island Immigration Station
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Daughter of the Late Pat Morita Protests Karate Kid Remake
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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Category Archives: Current Events
Highlights Of Voter Suppression In Asian America
Since the sixth of November is 2012’s election year, Mother Jones recently put out an article on the timeline of voter suppression in America. What’s interesting about the piece is that many individuals from Asian American history are right there … Continue reading
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Tagged elections, history, racism, voting
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Election 2012 – Congressional Campaign Ads
http://youtu.be/m_cS0408Ijo Back in 2010, I highlighted Asian Americans running for public office and their television commercials. Now, with a record number of Asian Americans running for Congress, it’s even more important to highlight leadership role models such as these individuals. … Continue reading
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Maya Soetoro-Ng On Her Brother As the President of the United States
Back in September when I was at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, I had a chance to see President Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, speak at the Asian American & Pacific Islander caucus. In this Obama re-election web video released last … Continue reading
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Congressman Mike Honda: How Nevada’s Asian American vote can swing election
Neveda is a battleground state in this year’s presidential election. On the political news site The Hill, Congressman Mike Honda (D-California) blogs on the difference Asian Americans in Nevada can make a difference: “Even as AAPIs grew the fastest out … Continue reading
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A Brief Lesson On Melanin Diversity In The Philippines And China
So the other week, Lucy Liu was under fire for her comment on David Letterman’s show about how she looks “a little Filipino” when she tans. Although Lucy has already apologized, a number of people are unsurprisingly still offended by … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Entertainment, Observations, TV
Tagged China, David Letterman, Lucy Liu, Philippines, race
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My 2012 Democratic National Convention Experience – Day 3
Editor’s Note: This is a three part series chronicling John’s visit to the Democratic National Convention. Read Day 1 and Day 2 here. After two full days of making the most of each day, I had planned on the same … Continue reading
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My 2012 Democratic National Convention Experience – Day 2
Editor’s Note: This is a three part series chronicling John’s visit to the Democratic National Convention. Check back throughout the week for the rest of his adventures! My first day at the Democratic national Convention was quite a whirlwind, and … Continue reading
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Tiger Moms Are Still Making Headlines
By John Kim Even as the Tiger Mom debate has started to fizzle out, she’s still making some press. It seems that Singapore’s prime minister has caught some flak for denouncing tiger mother-style parenting. I couldn’t help but wonder if … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Current Events, Education
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My 2012 Democratic National Convention Experience – Day 1
Editor’s Note: This is a three part series chronicling John’s visit to the Democratic National Convention. Check back throughout the week for the rest of his adventures! As I had blogged earlier and on different events, I had the great … Continue reading
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KQED Interviews Ang Lee For The Life of Pi
http://youtu.be/mX2HBsHbNZM San Francisco’s National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate KQED had Forum’s Michael Krasny interviewed Director Ang Lee recently after a screening of his soon-to-be-released The Life of Pi at the Mill Valley Film Festival to discuss about adapting novels to … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Entertainment, Movies
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CNN & NPR Report On Historic Number Of APA Candidates For Congress In 2012
I just caught this CNN story by Kyung Lah that was aired in earlier in October about the high number of Asian American candidates. Yes, there are a record 23 Asian Americans running for Congress (20 of them running as … Continue reading
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Racist Job Advertisement Posted In Australia
Job advertisements usually describe what you need to apply for the position. A nice smile, great personality, hard working, willing to do anything to get one over your rivals (that’s not expressly written in legal advertisements but its implied), quick … Continue reading
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