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Category Archives: Lifestyles
President Obama’s 2014 Lunar New Year Message
When I was a kid, it wasn’t even in the realm of imagination for the President to acknowledge Lunar New Year to the U.S. citizens who celebrate it. How things have changed! Today, the White House released a video message … Continue reading
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The Fung Bros TURNT UP for the Year of the Horse
Tomorrow (January 31, 2014) is Lunar New Year. So to prepare for the coming of the year of the Horse, is this video from the Fung Bros. From an anonymous 8Asians tipster: “A hilarious but educational video about Chinese New … Continue reading
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Health, Appearances, and Asian Americans
The incident where Maria Kang was briefly kicked off of Facebook, recent news about the “lower” rate of obesity among Asian Americans, and the debate on CNN above combine to bring up a subject that isn’t often discussed: … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Health, Health and Beauty, Lifestyles, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged BMI, Chrystal Bougon, Curvy Girl, fitness, Maria Kang
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Asian American Christianity and Linsanity
(Image from the Christian Film Database) Authors Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell offer an interesting statistic in American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us about the connection between being religious and one’s ethnic identity: Do other minority groups also have … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyles, Religion
Tagged asian american christianity, asian americans, Jeremy Lin, linsanity
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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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Viral Like SARS: “Smoking Kids;” Thai Kids Asking for a Light
We have shared a number of moving and evocative commercials from Thailand, and this one also falls into that category. While it has been out for a while, but it remains notable for its effectively delivering its message. This article … Continue reading
8$: Jazz, Cancer, and Life: Fred Ho’s Last Year
8$ 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
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Tea Lover’s Guide to Los Angeles: Chado Tea Room (Part 6 of 6)
One of the favorite stops for pretty affordable afternoon tea in LA is the Chado Tea room. They have multiple tea rooms, but I personally enjoy the one downtown in the Japanese American National Museum the best because it has … Continue reading
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Tea Lover’s Guide to Los Angeles: The Huntington Library (Part 5 of 6)
The Huntington Library is known for its iconic Japanese tea room, but there’s actually no tea served in that tea room–it’s really just for show. However, there are two other ways in which you can enjoy tea at this lovely … Continue reading
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Learning to Love Asian Men by Leaving the US
“So, before moving to Korea, why did I not realize the potential in Asian men? Because for the first 21 years of my life, the United States had deceived me.” With so much focus on how men fetishize Asian women, … Continue reading
Tea Lover’s Guide to Los Angeles: 85C (Part 4 of 6)
The two guys in the video are coffee drinkers and tried the coffees, but since I’m the tea drinker, I was SERIOUSLY addicted at one point to their ice sea salt jasmine green tea and the ice sea salt mountain … Continue reading
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Dim Sum Diet Wrecker
For the past few months, I’ve been on a 1200 calorie baseline diet, which means I try to keep my daily calorie net intake at 1200, just enough to keep myself alive while maintaining a 500 calorie deficit. On days … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, Health, Health and Beauty, Lifestyles
Tagged chinese food, diet, dim sum, Health
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