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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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Who Is The Asian Woman Sitting Courtside At Lakers Home Games?
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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The Attractive, Accomplished, and Fake Chinese Women who want to connect with me
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Category Archives: Education
How to have a Winning Track Team without a Usable Track
Imagine an academically focused high school with plenty of Asians Americans and without a consistently usable track and limited athletic funding. What if any sport would it excel in? Why track of course! In this interview at milesplit.com, Lowell High … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Local, San Francisco Bay Area, Sports
Tagged Andy Leong, cross country, Lowell High School, track
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8Asians News: Study Finds Tiger Parenting Not Common Among Chinese American Parents
As reported in Forbes, a 8-year study on over 400 Chinese American families by Su Yeong Kim et. al. published in Asian American Journal of Psychology has found that not only is tiger parenting NOT common among those families studied … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged amy chua, asian american journal of psychology, Education, parenting, psychology, Tiger Mom, tiger parenting
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The College Admissions Game Addendum 1: Rankings, Ratings, and Registering
How much is getting into a top ranked college worth? One family from Hong Kong offered up to $400K to a popular Silicon Valley consultant to get their “C” average student into a top ranked school. This raises many questions, … Continue reading
McGraw-Hill Denies Japan’s Request to Remove Comfort Women from Textbooks
Good for McGraw-Hill. Seriously, the nerve of the Japanese government to try to extend their censorship to the United States. I remember on one of my family visits to Japan and Taiwan in college, I was reading Iris Chang’s (R.I.P.) … Continue reading
Traveling Japan: Learning Japanese
Japanese was one of those languages that I’ve always sort of known but never fully mastered. One of my grandmothers was a Japanese language teacher in Taiwan and grew up in the era of Japanese colonialism. Both she and my … Continue reading
Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill Discrimination Suits: Good or Bad for Asian Americans?
Harvard and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill have been sued for their admissions practices by the organization Project for Fair Representation. The suit says that Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill are making admissions harder for Asian Americans than … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Education
Tagged Affirmative Action, Edward Blum, Harvard
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The Racial Divide Between Elementary Schools
As a child, I attended public school. I didn’t have a choice, it was all my parents could afford, there was zero chance with my parent’s financial status that I’d ever get to go to private school. Even attending public … Continue reading
How to NOT Objectify Asian Women
Recently, Kristina Wong was featured in New York Times in a video series called “Off Color”, and I visited her artist website and also discovered her satire dating site about the objectification of Asian women, BigBadChineseMama.com, where she and volunteers … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Discrimination, Education, Lifestyles
Tagged Asian fetish, Asian women, Kristina Wong
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8$: ‘We Need Diverse Books’
8$ is a series which occasionally highlights interesting crowdfunding projects. Every day, the 8Asians team is inundated by many worthy pitches. We are unable to highlight every one that comes our way, or even the ones we might individually support. … Continue reading
Are Asian Americans Cheaters?
When Cung Le lost to Michael Bisping, UFC commentator and former fighter Brian Stann tweeted, “it didn’t pay to cheat for once, good start to the day,” assuming that Le’s ripped body shown at the UFC Fight Night Macau weigh-ins … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Politics
Tagged cheating, college admissions, Cung Le, MMA, SAT, standardized tests, UFC
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US Department of State: Scholarship for High School Study Abroad
The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) offers merit-based scholarships for American high school students (ages 15-18) to study one of seven critical foreign languages including Chinese (Mandarin) and Korean in summer or academic year immersion programs overseas. The … Continue reading
Affirmative Action Alternatives and their Effects on Asian Americans
With the tabling of SCA5, the Fisher vs University of Texas decision, and the lawsuit over admissions to New York’s selective high schools, non-race based alternatives to diversifying campuses are increasingly being discussed. Some of these discussions, like this one … Continue reading