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Do Asian Women Have The Smallest Vaginas?
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Asian Pubic Hair Questions
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Do Asian Women Have the Smallest Breasts?
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Do All Asians Have Flat Butts?
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Do Asians Have the Smallest Testicle?
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My Visit to San Francisco’s Angel Island Immigration Station
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Category Archives: Family
Study Suggests Happiness “Less Important” to Asians
A recent Time article discusses a University of Washington paper which found that “having positive emotions — ‘happy,’ ‘joyful,’ ‘proud,’ ‘strong’ — tended to reduce stress and depression symptoms among European Americans but not immigrant Asians. The results for U.S.-born … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Family, Lifestyles
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The 8Asians Talk About: Fake Tiger Mom on ABC
Our internal e-mail lists have us discussing all kinds of stuff: Asian American identity, representation in the media, the experiences of activism in an academia setting and its progression as we transition to the working, adult world. And sometimes, we … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Entertainment, Family, Observations, TalkAbout, TV
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Top Children’s and Young Adult Literature for APA Heritage Month
By Cynthia May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Kidlit is one of many things that shed light on the rich and diverse heritage and cultures of Asian Pacific Americans. Being Asian American, I grew up thirsty for books about … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Education, Entertainment, Family
Tagged A Step From Heavy, Allen Say, Almira Astudillo Gilles, An Na, Anna May Wong, David Yoo, Girls for Breakfast, Grace Lin, Home of the Brave, Kidlit, Paula Yoo, Shadow of the Dragon, Sherry Garland, Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story, The Year of the Dog, Willie Wins
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Restoring The Light: Bringing Health Care To Rural China
Restoring the Light was first brought to our attention at the 2011 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival with its story about Dr. Zhang, a doctor fighting to bring transformative health care to the rural areas of northwest China. The … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Family, Health, Movies
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Interracial Marriage Data Can Be Deceptive For Asian Americans
As studies have been showing, interracial and inter-ethnic marriages have been generally on the rise over the past few decades — and now they account for one in seven new U.S. marriages, according to the Pew Research Center. The data for … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Family, Lifestyles
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Census 2010 Results Show Indian American Population Surge
Walking through my company’s newly renovated cafeteria, I looked behind one of the counters and noticed something like what you see to the right. For those of you who don’t know, it is a tandoor, an oven used in cooking … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education, Family, Lifestyles, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Cupertino, Indian American Population surge, tandoor
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Family Disoriented Man: Accepting Yourself in a Traditional Asian Household
I grew up in a household where all the boys sported either bowl cuts or mullets. Yes, I said it, my brother had a mullet. This was the default hairstyle: you either had to be a victim of a medium … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Discrimination, Family, LGBT, Lifestyles
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Unhinging Over Amy Chua & Wesley Yang: Stomach a Little Negative Light, People
First we took out the pitchforks for Amy Chua. How dare she write something that so foreseeably would fire up Sinophobia and make all of us APAs look bad! We’re American; we’re normal; we’re well assimilated; why stir up the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Family, Lifestyles
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Fawn Lee: Dying Mom Struggles to Leave a Legacy
While my children were growing up, I would mentally mark the milestone when they reached an age when they would remember me if I died. That may seem ridiculously grim, but I have friends who have few memories of parents … Continue reading
Mother’s Day with 8Asians: My Mother, The Professor
8Asians is celebrating Mother’s Day all week (Pssst…Don’t forget, it’s May 8th!) by doing what we do best: writing about the women who raised us, nurtured us, taught us, spoiled us, protected us and occasionally for some, drove us up … Continue reading
Mother’s Day with 8Asians: Becoming a Mother and Grandmother
8Asians is celebrating Mother’s Day all week (Pssst…Don’t forget, it’s May 8th!) by doing what we do best: writing about the women who raised us, nurtured us, taught us, spoiled us, protected us and occasionally for some, drove us up … Continue reading
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Mother’s Day with 8Asians: 不要浪费钱
8Asians is celebrating Mother’s Day all week (Pssst…Don’t forget, it’s May 8th!) by doing what we do best: writing about the women who raised us, nurtured us, taught us, spoiled us, protected us and occasionally for some, drove us up … Continue reading