Category Archives: Discrimination

Reverse Racism in Taiwan

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Guest Writer

By Lianne Lin I lived in Taiwan (Taipei and Taichung) for three years, and though I had an amazing time, I experienced a more harmful type of racism there than I ever have in my home country.  Born and raised … Continue reading →

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Pacific Islander Students struggle under the AAPI umbrella

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Jeff

The umbrella term AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) is a broad one that catches many under the model minority stereotype that comes with it, even while some, like many Pacific Islanders, are struggling for success.  Pacific Islanders (PI), those people … Continue reading →

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Where White means Mediocre: High-Skilled Asian Immigrant Enclaves

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Jeff

“Are you taking AP [Advanced Placement] courses?” “Oh no, I’m white.” – Conversation overhead by a teacher in Cupertino. Stanford sociologist Tomás Jiménez has been studying immigrants and the communities they live in, and he recently published what he found … Continue reading →

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Racist Tweets After Kenichi Ebina Wins ‘America’s Got Talent, Season 8’

Posted on September 23, 2013 by jozjozjoz

http://youtu.be/y5f0oDtsjkc Can it be that the whole season of America’s Got Talent has wrapped since we first saw Kenichi Ebina’s head-dropping audition video? The season has indeed ended and Kenichi defied the odds to come out on top, but it … Continue reading →

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Susane Lee’s Comedic Rap: ‘Dream Big’

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Guest Writer

Inspired by Natalie Portman’s SNL rap video, Susane Lee says: My latest project DREAM BIG is a comedic rap music video that highlights my journey as an Asian-American actress in Hollywood. It pokes fun of the common stereotypes and draws … Continue reading →

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Racist Tweets Arise Immediately as First Indian American Miss America is Crowned

Posted on September 16, 2013 by jozjozjoz

The story on this site should have been that four five Asian American/Pacific Islander contestants graced the stage in Atlantic City and that three of them placed in the Top 5: Nina Davuluri of New York was crowned Miss America, … Continue reading →

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Julie Chen Says Having Surgery to Look “Less Asian” Helped Her Career

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Shako Liu

http://youtu.be/wrf7xXHdjLk I personally applaud Julie Chen for her courage to speak out about her eye plastic surgery. The co-host of The Talk revealed her secret about her difficult decision of getting a plastic surgery on her eyes just to pursue … Continue reading →

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“Holistic” Admissions at UC Berkeley: An Insider View

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Jeff

Question:  What activity would have enough ethical dilemnas to scare off an ethics professor? Answer:  UC Berkeley’s “ holistic” Admissions process. Ruth Starkman, who at the time was an ethics professor at the University of San Francisco, has written this … Continue reading →

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How White Views on “Meritocracy” Change After Learning About Asian American Student Success

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Jeff

Any discussion about caps on Asian American college enrollment needs to be accompanied by definition what criteria should be used for admissions.    University of Miami sociology professor Frank L. Samson found that white Californians that he surveyed strongly supported … Continue reading →

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Asia, Not the West, Leading the Way for Female Leaders

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Nithin

Modern mainstream thought places “progress” in the hands of the west. After all, human rights, Democracy, the Enlightenment, Philosophy, English, and soccer all came from Europe and spread around the world. Ignoring the atrocity of colonialism, the modern world of … Continue reading →

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KTVU Producers Fired over Asiana Airlines Pilots’ Fake Names

Posted on July 25, 2013 by John

Although details are still not exactly clear as to how exactly racist fake pilots’ names for Asiana Airlines made it on air on local noon broadcast for San Francisco Bay Area Fox affiliate KTVU, there have been consequences for a … Continue reading →

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The Daily Show & The Colbert Report Mock KTVU

Posted on July 20, 2013 by John

The past two weeks, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report hosts and staff have been on vacation. Well, the shows were back on air this past Monday and wasted no time mocking KTVU’s ineptitude for inadvertently reporting the four … Continue reading →

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