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Category Archives: Discrimination
The Fred Yamamoto Scholarship Fund
A friend of mine, Steven Lee, who is a Palo Alto resident and involved in city government is helping to raise a scholarship fund in memory of Fred Yamamoto and provided a prepared statement: “As a 3rd generation Chinese-American and a … Continue reading
Posted in 8$, Current Events, Discrimination, Education, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Fred Yamamoto, Palo Alto, scholarship
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8Asians Book Review: The Repatriation of Henry Chin
The Repatriation of Henry Chin, written by Issac Ho and read by Anthony Lee on audiobook, is about a future where the United States has been in an escalating trade war with China which eventually leads to the roundup of … Continue reading
8th Annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties & the Constitution – with Daniel Ellsberg
Every year since the kickoff year in 2011, I’ve tried to make the annual Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties & the Constitution in the Bay Area. This year, I was particularly interested since after watching the movie The Post (about … Continue reading
Shark Tank: “Gold digger” Yunha Kim & Simple Habit
I think the last time I wrote about Shark Tank was when 3 Korean American women were trying to raise money for their dating app, Coffee Meets Bagel, where one sister (I think the one that went to Stanford for … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Discrimination, Entertainment, TV
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Nathan Chen and Vincent Zhou Make U.S. Men’s 2018 Olympic Figure Skating Team; Zhou Responds to Racist Tweet
Part 2 of the press conference here. On Sunday, Nathan Chen, Adam Rippon and Vincent Zhou were named to the U.S. Figure Skating Team: “U.S. Figure Skating announced today the men who will compete at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 as part of the U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Local, San Francisco Bay Area, Sports
Tagged figure skating, ice skating, Nathan Chen, skating, Vincent Zhou
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Gurriel’s Racist Gesture to Darvish Recalls Other “Slant eye” Photos
Over the weekend, the World Series broke my heart. First, being a Dodgers fan, the way they have lost have crushed the soul out of me… and then there was the whole Yuli Gurriel incident after hitting the home run … Continue reading
Posted in (featured), Current Events, Discrimination, Sports
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Chinese immigrant Hongbin Gu responds to social media criticism on bid for Chapel Hill Town Council
I saw this article by Durham, North Carolina’s The Hearld Sun posted on Facebook recently and was outraged by what I had read, and immediately made a small contribution to Hongbin Gu’s campaign for city council in Chapel Hill: “She’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Politics
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Wong Fu Productions: Asian Bachelorette
From a racial perspective, the reality TV shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette has been somewhat contorversial, considering that for most of the TV series existence, both shows has been pretty white. And 8Asians has covered this issue with blog … Continue reading
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Kristina Wong’s “How to Not Pick Up Asian Chicks”
I think I first heard of Kristina Wong (“solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer, and filmmaker”) around her antics of trying to marry her dream husband, Taiwanese American NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin, and her viral TV interview on which … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dating, Discrimination, Entertainment, Lifestyles
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8Books Review: “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko’s debut novel, The Leavers, follows a mother and son separated by immigration agents, borders, and new families. Deming Guo wakes up one day in the Bronx to find that his mother Polly has disappeared. Soon, he is Daniel Wilkinson … Continue reading
Posted in 8Books, 8Series, Books, Current Events, Discrimination, Entertainment, Family, New York, Politics, Reviews
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8Books Review: “Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia”
Because I had grown up in neighboring Newark and then lived in Fremont California for many years before moving to San Jose, I was intensely curious to read what Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia by Willow S. … Continue reading
8Books Review: “The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii”
The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artists and Wartime Witness brings Fujii’s art to a broader audience with the stunning pages from a diary he kept while incarcerated during World War II. Written by Barbara Johns and with an … Continue reading
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