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Category Archives: Family
Missing Chapters in Iris Chang’s “The Chinese in America”
Iris Chang’s book The Chinese in America is one of the very few books that chronicles a major Asian American community, the Chinese Americans. Of course, no one book could fully capture the incredible diversity of the Chinese American category … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Discrimination, Education, Family, History
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A New Form of Corporal Punishment: Parents Finding Others to Beat Their Children
This past weekend a 15 year old boy was struck approximately 12 times with a metal pole on the back of the leg, which caused injuries. He was beaten because the parents found a lighter and suspected the boy had … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Lifestyles
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Is Santa Asian?
As I’ve mentioned in other articles, I work for the Japanese American National Museum here in Los Angeles. My job is to plan the public programs. One of my more popular programs is Target Family Free Saturday, which is a … Continue reading
Posted in Family
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Study: “South Korean Men Are Second Most Unfaithful In World”
From Chosun: “In the poll of 29,000 men and women from 36 countries by Harris Interactive for condom maker Durex, 34 percent of Korean men answered that they had been unfaithful to their partners, second only to Thailand’s 54 percent. … Continue reading
Children of Immigrants More Likely To Pursue Advanced Studies
The Immigrant Learning Center (ILC) has released a report examining the issues related to children of immigrants growing up in immigrant entrepreneurial families. The study focused on the children of U.S. immigrant entrepreneurs, specifically Asian American and Latino graduate and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Family
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Lowes Pulls Ads From TLC’s All-American Muslim
TLC’s All-American Muslim profiles several Michigan Muslim families as normal people with everyday issues and triumphs. It has been generally well received by the public and critics, which I see this as a real positive sign that we are making … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Entertainment, Family, Lifestyles, Religion, TV
Tagged all-american muslim, asian americans, asians, bigotry, florida family association, Islam, lowe's, muslims, prejudice, stereotype, terrorism
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Social Networking And Bone Marrow Donors
I first joined the bone marrow donor registry in the early nineties, after reading about a Chinese boy with leukemia who was looking for a match. Back then (and still the case now), Asian donors were rare, and finding a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Health, LGBT, Lifestyles
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Chinese-Taiwanese Familial Relations
It has not been easy for my Taiwanese family and my Chinese in-laws to understand each other. That is a gross understatement and for now we’ll leave it at that and table the wildly contentious, high-tension stories for another time. … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Family, Lifestyles, Observations, Politics
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89% of Indian Women Carrying Girls “Opted For Abortion”
Via the National Review: “Dr. Sunita Puri […] who practices in the Bay Area, wanted to find out why so many immigrant Indian women in the United States were so eager to find out the sex of their unborn children, … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Family, Lifestyles
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Asians Behaving Badly: Woman Charged With Dousing Ex-Husband With Boiling Water
Jesusa Tatad was charged with torture after dousing her ex-husband with boiling water and later hitting him in the head with baseball bat. Prosecutors say that she attacked him in the home they still shared after believing that her ex … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Dating, Family, Lifestyles, WTF
Tagged assault, Jesusa Tatad, torture
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Asians Behaving Badly: Teacher Ruins Christmas For Second Grade Students
If you’re hoping to keep the Christmas spirit alive in your children for as long as possible, don’t send them to Leatrice Ann Eng’s class. The teacher is making headlines for ruining the holidays for her 6 and 7 year … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education, Family, Lifestyles, Religion
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Young Chinese Mexican American Starts Feminist Photo Blog
A friend recently pointed me to this amazing new photo blog project on tumblr started by Amy, a Chinese Mexican American from California and unabashed young feminist of color. The Feminist Photo Blog Project hopes to capture the different faces … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Entertainment, Family, Lifestyles
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