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Category Archives: Observations
How to be a Bad Asian: Let your kid get a B
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. … Continue reading
Posted in Family, How To Be A Bad Asian, Lifestyles, Observations
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Controversy over Dreamworks’ “Monkeys of Bollywood”
Dreamworks Animation recently announced that they will be making an animated musical based on the Ramayan, a Holy Scripture of the Hindu faith (which can be loosely compared to the Bible or Qu’ran). On board with the film is composer A.R. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Movies, Observations
Tagged a.r. rahman, bollywood, dreamworks, gurinder chadha, hindus, love guru, ramayan, stephen schwartz
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The 8Asians Talk About: Japan’s Foray Into Reality Television
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 Entertainment, Observations, TalkAbout, TV
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How To Be A Bad Asian: I Don’t Know the Names of Dim Sum Dishes
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, How To Be A Bad Asian
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Looking Into the Future: Amy Chua’s Parenting Style
By Zahira Bring together all the stereotypes you know about Asian-American families: hard driving, 1970s immigrants, two highly educated parents with professional careers, free from praise, and full of expectations. Take them all to the extreme, and what do you … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Observations
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How To Be A Bad Asian: I Hate Chopsticks
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, How To Be A Bad Asian, Observations
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Asian Americans in the “Cold/Competent” Quadrant
A friend of mine on Facebook had posted this interesting article in Harvard Magazine aboout social psychologist Professor Amy Cuddy, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and her study on how people perceive and categorize others – in particular … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Observations
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How To Be a Bad Asian: I Love Big Trouble in Little China
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, How To Be A Bad Asian, Movies, Observations
Tagged Big Trouble in Little China
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Open Thread: What are your Holiday Traditions?
Merry Christmas Happy Early Lunar New Year by a couple of months Happy Holidays, from all of us at 8Asians.com! Our family being the standard Chinese converted-Baptists ripped apart by parental divorce and family problems, our family traditions have been … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Observations
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How To Be A Bad Asian: I Love Being A Blonde
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, How To Be A Bad Asian, Observations
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I AM KOREAN AMERICAN: A Spoken Poem
I present to you a spoken poem that is both a personal project of mine and a poetic front to the website with the same name, I AM KOREAN AMERICAN. From self-hatred to fierce love, I AM KOREAN AMERICAN is … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Observations, The Arts
Tagged asians, edward hong, i am korean american, identity crisis, koreans, self hatred, seung-hui cho, Steve Nguyen
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Chinese Launches Communist Version of Twitter
Via Mashable: China Launches Communist Version of Twitter. And what do you know – I was able to get a sneak peak at some of the code. Just check out line 182 in particular: if (TWEET==’TAIWAN’) { user.imprison(); } Wow. … Continue reading
Posted in (simple), Observations, Technology, WTF
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