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This whole week, CNN’s 6:00 AM EST morning show “American Morning“, “Survivor” Winner Yul Kwon takes the viewer
beyond the stereotypes to expose the real issues facing Asian-Americans today. In today’s segment, Kwon interviews Lost star Daniel Dae Kim about dealing with stereotypes in television and movies. I’m told that there will be segments on “The glass ceiling for Asian Americans in corporate America” and “Affirmative action in education.”
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I forgot to mention at the beginning of May that May is officially, “Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month,” as officially proclaimed by our president. The history behind Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month is that in 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week.
The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important anniversaries: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (May 10, 1869). In 1992, Congress expanded the 10-day observance to a month-long celebration. Per a 1997 Office of Management and Budget directive, the Asian or Pacific islander racial category was separated into two different categories: “Asian” and “native Hawaiian or other Pacific islander.” (reference)
According to the U.S. census (2005), there are over 13.5 Asian/Americans constituting approximately ~5% of the U.S. population. Congressman Mike Honda (D - California) has a list of Bay Area events to commemorate the month.
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In a recent Time magazine readers poll of the World’s Most Influential People, political satirist Stephen Colbert came in 2nd to … Korean R&B pop singer/ dancer/ actor Rain (Bi 비).
Now, personally, I don’t care too much for either guy though I will say Stephen Colbert is witty and Rain only appeals to me when he’s a) smiling, b) topless or c) both. But see what Colbert does in an attempt to thwart his rival for the top spot.
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I hesitate to even quote this Pat Buchanan idiot, but it’s relevant to the previous discussions we’ve been having here about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech masscre. Buchanan is blaming Seung Cho’s psychotic and deranged actions on IMMIGRATION.
He recently wrote an article at townhall.com called The Dark Side of Diversity. With a title like that you can imagine where this article is going.
Here are some choice excerpts (my commentary in bold italics):
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This morning on NPR, Morning Edition, I heard the segment on “Chinese Restaurant Workers in U.S. Face Hurdles.” I didn’t realize that there were sooooo many Chinese restaurants in America:
“There are about 40,000 Chinese restaurants in the United States — more than the number of McDonald’s and Taco Bells combined.”
The story goes on to describe the challenges of both legal and illegal (smuggled into the U.S. for up to $70,000) Chinese working in the Chinese restaurant business. New York City-based Sincere Employment Agency is profiled briefly - which helps place Chinese workers in restaurant jobs across the country - almost like migrant farm workers moving from one restaurant to another.
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Mike first wrote about the utterly hilarious Christine Gambito of happyslip.com and her growing YouTube following back in February. Many of the Happy Slip videos highlight Gambito’s Filipino family members (all played by her, in sidesplitting hysterical perfection) and the completely relatable situations all children of immigrants have experienced. “Happy slip” comes from her mother’s Filipino pronunciation of “half slip.” Does anyone even know what a half slip is anymore? I don’t think so. Celebrities can’t even be bothered to wear underwear. So, in case you don’t know, you are supposed to wear a “half slip” underneath your skirt so that people can’t see your underwear, Britney Spears. Your underwear.
I digress. Back to Christine! The Filipina one-woman production’s popularity on YouTube has risen to such a level (the Happy Slip video, “Peelings” has had more than 200,000 viewers) that she has been selected to participate in the same revenue sharing and promotional program as YouTube’s corporate content partners. As a partner, she is in the company of 20-40 YouTube members-turned-stars such as Lonelygirl15 and LisaNova.
Hooray por Happy Slip! As we would say in my native Ilonggo dialect, “wow, tigas!”
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On Saturday, May 5th, 2007, the co-editors of Other: Asian Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology (2007), Eddy Zheng and Ben Wang, held a book reading at Eastwind Books of Berkeley that brought in a packed house. Audience members included such prominent friends of Eddy Zheng like Yuri Kochiyama, Richard Aoki, numerous Asian American Studies professors, community activists, and more. Eddy spoke at length to the audience on life in prison for an Asian American, discussing the lack of research, study, and even public awareness or community support for API prisoners. He talked about the hardships of language barriers, feeling ostracized from the Asian community, the shame that families of prisoners feel, and encouraged the audience to engage actively in more outreach programs for API prisoners. The two co-authors read excerpts from their book, which may be heard here on YouTube.
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