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Tag Archives: Asian-American
Tim Burton’s All Asian American Hansel & Gretel Film
So everyone in L.A. has been visiting our beloved Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) to see the latest blockbuster art exhibit featuring the art of director Tim Burton. Appropriately, this exhibit will be on display until Halloween 2011. … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, The Arts
Tagged Asian-American, film, hansel and gretel, Japanese American, tim burton
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Daniel Park Interview: A One Man Band
There aren’t that many Asian American singers and songwriters in the media these days. Actually, I don’t think Asian Americans get all the much recognition because they’re considered the underdogs of music. As I was sitting at The Coffee Garden … Continue reading
Posted in APA Spotlight, Entertainment, Music
Tagged acoustic, Asian-American, community, Daniel Park, music
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Wesley Yang’s “Paper Tigers” and the APA Identity Crisis
When you open Wesley Yang’s “Paper Tigers” in New York Magazine, you will notice a half naked East Asian man starring blankly right back at you as its greeting. Playfully, you may think that the title evoke images of tigers … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Observations
Tagged Asian-American, bamboo ceiling, glass ceiling, identity crisis, self hatred, wesley yang
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True Activism Missing In Asian American Fashion Designers
Hyphen Magazine published an incredible piece by Catherine Traywick called “The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion” (February 25, 2011) that analyzes Asian cultural influences in the global fashion industry by comparing it to the emergence … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Discrimination, Fashion, Politics, The Arts
Tagged art, Asian-American, design, Fashion
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Asian Americans Need to be Consistent With Hollywood Protests
Do you really want Asians cast in Hollywood roles? Yes. My qualm about it? It doesn’t seem consistent. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon with movies that did terrible at the box office. There are multiple sites dedicated to … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, Observations
Tagged Asian-American, bad films, Hollywood, white washing
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How To Be a Bad Asian: It’s Not All About API Rights in Movies
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 Asian-American, Entertainment, Jay Chou, Kato, Movies, rights, The Green Hornet
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Western (White) Mom vs. Chinese Mom: Who Wins?
The release of Amy Chua’s highly controversial article, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” marks an extremely exciting time to be a blogger in the Asian American media world. It is beautiful to see such strong emotions fly all over the … Continue reading
One out of Seven New Marriages Interracial or Inter-Ethnic
For those that have never really caught it before, yes, I am in an interracial relationship. So understanding quite well that I too am a part of this Pew statistic where one in seven new marriages are interracial or inter-ethnic, … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Observations
Tagged ABC, Asian-American, chinese, culture, interracial marriage, pew, statistic
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Miss USA Breaks Through Another Racial Barrier
Say what you will about the Miss USA pageants, but when I learned today that the winner of the beauty pageant competition was Rima Fakih (who won Miss Michigan on September 19th, 2009), I whooped at my computer screen and … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Observations, TV
Tagged arab american, Asian-American, Beauty, michigan, miss usa, muslim, rima fakih
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Kim Jong Il Loves Women, Doesn’t “Violence Women Domestically (or internationally)”
If you’ve been on Facebook in the last couple of months, then you might have been inundated with requests to vote in Chase’s Community Giving Facebook Campaign. With financial resources drying up for many organizations, this campaign has been a … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Comedy, Technology
Tagged Asian, Asian-American, comedy, community, community service, Danny Cho, domestic violence, Facebook, Kim Jong-Il, nonprofit, sexual abuse, women
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Does Santa Exist For Asian Americans?
I came to the U.S. when I was only 2 years old. As an Asian American immigrant child in a family where money was stretched thin, there wasn’t even the hint that Santa could be real in our household. We … Continue reading
Adding a Helping of Heritage on a Full Plate (Part 1 – Language)
“Dad, what are they saying?” said Number One Son. “Yeah, what are they talking about?” said Number Two Son. My sons were referring to the animated conversation that was going on in Tagalog between, their Aunts, their Uncles, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Observations
Tagged Asian-American, Family, Filipino, language, Tagalog, Travis Kraft
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