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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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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Review: Netflix’s “Let’s Get Divorced”
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Category Archives: Discrimination
Judge A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
I want to thank everyone for their words of condolences this week. It’s been comforting to hear from so many. With good reason, I’m a week or so late with this topic. The Oxford University Press chose to honor Martin … Continue reading
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Nuns Sue Filipina Over Smoked Fish
The Philippine News recently reported that an order of nuns in Manhattan called the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart have filed a lawsuit against a Filipina tenant in one of their apartments for cooking Filipino smoked fish, otherwise known … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Food & Drink, WTF
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Mountain View, CA Elects First Asian American Woman Mayor
Mountain View, California is the headquarters of Internet giant Google. It’s also where I live. This past week, I witnessed history as Mountain View had a “Historic moment at City Hall” by the Mountain View city council unanimously electing Margaret … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Observations, Politics
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David Chiu makes SF Supervisor History
David Chiu makes San Francisco Board of Supervisors history by becoming the first Chinese American elected as Board President. Normally I wouldn’t even have noticed a news event like this one, as I’m already familiar with other Chinese Americans that … Continue reading
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High Grades, High Stress for Asian-American Students in Bay Area
When I came across this recent headline from the Mercury News — Success gap: High grades, high stress for Asian-American students in Bay Area — my first reaction was that this was going to be a somewhat biased commentary like … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Education, Observations
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San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong to retire in April
One thing that really shocked me about moving here from Western Massachusetts was the number of Asian Americans with non-stereotyped roles, like police officers or fire fighters. Almost five years ago, when San Francisco Mayor Newsom appointed 26 year police … Continue reading
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White-Washing Avatar: The Last Airbender?
Entertainment Weekly recently announced the casting decisions by M. Night Shyamalan for his latest project, Avatar: The Last Airbender, a live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon cartoon. With names like Jesse McCartney, Twilight’s Jackson Rathbone and Nicola Peltz, it’s clear … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Entertainment, Movies
Tagged M. Night Shyamalan, The Last Airbender movie
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Jeremy Lin and the Challenges Facing Asian American Athletes
“That team could use some black kids!” This was the comment of Number Two Son, pointing to the mostly white team that his mostly black team beat in an NJB game. That incident came to mind when I saw this … Continue reading
Too many look-alike Asians? The curious case of Gail Kim and Lena Yada
Gail Kim, an Asian-Canadian who is one of the top female professional wrestlers today, recently left the TNA wrestling promotion to join the WWE. Coincidentally, (or may not so coincidentally), Lena Yada was released from WWE. While the official reason … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Entertainment, Sports
Tagged Batista, Gail Kim, Jimmy Yang Wang, Lena Yada, professional wrestling, Sonjay Dutt, TNA, WWE
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No on 8: How NOT to Run an Initiative Campaign
Given the passage of California Proposition 8 which attempts to add an amendment in the state constitution to ban marriage among same-sex couples, there’s been a lot of finger pointing at who’s to blame. Given the statistics that have been … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, LGBT, Observations, Politics
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Battleground Nevada. Is she oriental too?
They have some big signs in Nevada… This past weekend, I was in Reno, Nevada. As you know, Nevada is a “battleground state.” Obama is leading McCain in California by something like 25% … so there are a flood of … Continue reading
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What is “Marriage Protection”? A Social Conservative’s View on Prop 8
The irony was not lost on any of us when the initiative measure known as Proposition 8, which fundamentally alters the California state constitution, would be titled the “California Marriage Protection Act” (emphasis my own). It might have been titled … Continue reading