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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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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Internet Page Reveals How to Talk Dirty in Tagalog
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Do Asians Have Body Hair?
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A Guide To A Buddhist/Chinese/American Funeral
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Review: Netflix’s “Let’s Get Divorced”
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Category Archives: Discrimination
For Korean Parents, Height can Change Fate
How important is height? For South Korean parents, it’s more than important. I’m not sure why, but ever since I can remember, I knew the parentals in South Korea were obsessed with the height of their children; it would come … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Lifestyles, Observations
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Black/Asian Race Relations in A Good Day to be Black and Sexy
By Alex I had a chance to watch A Good Day to be Black and Sexy (2008) earlier today; let me definitely say “Thank you Netflix!” If it wasn’t for you, I would never have the fortune to find completely … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Movies, Observations
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Did “Asians Scare Sarah Palin Away” from Hawaii?
I never thought that we’d ever have a reason to write about Sarah Palin on this blog, but here it is. With the release of her book “Going Rogue,” come opportunities for her to put a few things out for … Continue reading
Posted in (featured), Current Events, Discrimination, Politics
Tagged Alaska, hawaii, racist, Sarah Palin
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More on the South Philadelphia High School Attacks
By Jason Having grown up on the East Coast in Washington D.C., which is a fairly multi-cultural community, I was shocked to hear about the assaults and beatings on about 30 Asian students at South Philadelphia High School. Fights broke … Continue reading
Posted in (featured), Current Events, Discrimination, Observations
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UCSF honors Japanese American students interned during World War II
In the first move of its kind since the early 1970s, the University of California at San Francisco has given honorary degrees to 68 Japanese American students who were forced to leave the campus because of the internment of West … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Education
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The Axe in the Attic: Connecting Hurricane Katrina and Typhoon Ketsana
Last night I watched the 2007 documentary “The Axe in the Attic,” which followed the film’s makers, Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, to New Orleans six months after Hurricane Katrina. The pair embarked on a road trip following the trails … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Movies, Observations
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Shirley Tan: Advocate Person of the Year
I wrote previously about Shirley Tan’s plight of possible deportation and separation from her family, and followed up later with a post on the act of Congress that let her stay with her family in the United States. Tan has … Continue reading
(Mostly Asian) High School Student Newspaper Runs Supremacist Ad
A bunch of white white supremacists pulled a fast one on the Student Newspaper staff of Lowell High School in San Francisco, pulling a bait-and-switch and redirecting a web address left in an ad to an a “campaign to inform, … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Lowell High School, white supremacy
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Santa Anita Race Track Opens Exhibit on Japanese Internment
The biggest news this weekend from Arcadia, CA was Zenyatta coming from behind to clinch her 14th win at the Breeders’ Cup Classic at the Santa Anita Race Track. It was actually quite an amazing feat considering how far behind … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Local, Politics, Southern California
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End of SF’s Energy 92.7 Brings Format Changes, Anti-Asian DJs
For people who are fans of seeing (hearing?) positive Asian American images on the radio, this will be a one-two punch: Energy 92.7 – the independent radio station which regularly brought BoA to San Francisco was bought by new owners … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Discrimination, Music, San Francisco Bay Area
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When did F.O.B. become fob?
For those of us growing up in the U.S. with immigrant parents in the seventies and eighties, there was no getting around the fact that the term F.O.B. (Fresh Off the Boat – pronounced letter “F”, letter “O”, letter “B”) … Continue reading
Posted in (featured), Discrimination, Family, Observations
Tagged Asian, chinese, discriination, fob, fobby
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Can Being Asian Prevent Promotions?
So I got this email, and saw the tweet: Being Asian can prevent you from ascending the corporate ladder. Our seminar, presented with EMC Asian Circle, can tell you what to do about it. You’ve done all the right things, … Continue reading
Posted in (featured), Business, Discrimination, Education, Observations
Tagged Asian, Business, David Lum, Discrimination, executive, naaap, NC
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