8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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Asian Heritage Athletes in America Feature: Nathan Chen
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Do Asian Women Have The Smallest Vaginas?
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Do Asian Women Have the Smallest Breasts?
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Do All Asians Have Flat Butts?
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Asian Pubic Hair Questions
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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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Category Archives: Family
Creating the Asian Pacific American Family Album
By Eddie Wong Every time I returned to my mother’s house in Los Angeles I would invariably spend some time thumbing through the family photo album. There were few photographs of my parents as young adults; they were poor and … Continue reading
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Screening for Colon Cancer, “The Silent Killer” of Asian Americans
As an Asian American, there’s one killer out there that affects more Asian Americans than any other. The leading cause of death for Asian Americans since 1980 is cancer (unlike for the general population of the U.S. which has heart … Continue reading
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Made In the USA: American Surrogates for Chinese
When I was in college, I stumbled across the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, by Bill Watterson. In particular I was quite taken with the strip where Calvin and his toy tiger Hobbes discuss where babies come from. By the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Health, Health and Beauty, LGBT, Technology
Tagged American surrogates, China, Chinese nationals, made in usa, one-child policy, surrogates
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The Dilemma of Chinese School
If you’re a Chinese American child of Chinese American immigrants, then it’s quite likely you spent part of your childhood attending Chinese school. It’s a coming of age ritual of growing up ½ or 1st generation Chinese American. And of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family
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A Look at Asian American Income Disparities and Variation: “Reading Between the Data”
When this report from Nielsen came out a few months ago about how Asian Americans are a wealthy sophisticated group with above average household income that marketers should target, it seemed to me that the people who compiled that report … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Family
Tagged Center for American Progress, disaggregation, household size, income, statistics
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8$: Post Production for Feature Documentary Film ‘TWINSTERS’
8$ 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
Posted in 8$, Family, Movies
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Tiger Parent Worship in HBO’s ‘State of Play: Trophy Kids’
“If she’s crying that’s good, because I’m going to make her tough.” – Andre Avery, after making his daughter cry with his criticism her golf play In a documentary full of disturbing parental behavior, one thing that particularly disturbs me … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Movies, Sports
Tagged Amari Avery, golf, parenting, State of Play: Trophy Kids, The Short Game, youth sports
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When You and Your Parents Don’t Speak the Same Language–Literally
Recently on the Washington Post, Daniel Chen was interviewed about his life and the linguistic barriers that made him and his parents veritable strangers in their own home. He’s currently studying Mandarin Chinese at college to try to bridge this … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Family, History, Lifestyles
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Cross Country: An Ideal Asian American Youth Sport?
While I have seen many heavily Asian American teams at high school cross country meets, one thing that I have recently began to notice is that increasingly, some of the winners are Asian Americans. After seeing this interview with runner … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Sports
Tagged Cameron Tu, cross country running, Rajpaul Pannu, running, youth sports
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Elaborate Proposal Plan Gets Reversed
Vicky Wang, 31, refused two marriage proposals from her boyfriend Jonathan Law, but when she felt ready, decided to do the asking (reading lots of Joy Chen? /kidding). She set up an elaborate scheme at his high school in Vancouver, … Continue reading
Book Summary: Making Paper Cranes
One of our own has recently published a book. Mihee Kim-Kort published Making Paper Cranes: Toward an Asian American Feminist Theology. Some might call it cliche because it’s a little Joy Luck Club meets Mulan. An Asian mother teaching her Asian daughter to … Continue reading
Posted in APA Faith Matters, Books, Family, Religion
Tagged Asian-American, Christianity, faith, racism, spirituality
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National Minority Donor Awareness Week (August 1-7)
I had no idea that August 1 through August 7 is National Minority Donor Awareness Week until a friend of mine posted the above video which featured a friend of hers. We have done many stories at 8asians on the … Continue reading