Comments on: Study: Americans Expect Business Leaders to Be White

By: CEO Clara Shih of Hearsay Labs Named to Starbucks Board of Director | Business | 8Asians.com

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:21:49 +0000

[...] how few Asian Americans there are at the CEO, upper management or board of directors level, I was pleasantly surprised to hear about Shih’s news. And women are notoriously poorly [...]

By: Kickstarter’s Co-Founder & CEO Perry Chen On NBC Rock Center | Business | 8Asians.com

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:23 +0000

[...] are interviewed. However, I was disappointed that Strickler got a lot more airtime and thought, oh, maybe stereotypically, Strickler is the CEO and Perry is the CTO or technical guy. Then I Google’d a little, was surprised that Perry was [...]

By: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Re-elected In Landslide Victory | Current Events | 8Asians.com

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:37:59 +0000

[...] I’m not a fan of Jindal’s policies or politics, but as the first Indian American governor elected in the United States, he has definitely broken new mental barriers as to how many Americans may perceive who political or business leaders can be. [...]

By: Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on The Colbert Report | Business | 8Asians.com

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh on The Colbert Report | Business | 8Asians.com — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:01:59 +0000

[...] great to see Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh featured on The Colbert Report, who is a terrific example of an Asian American business leader. If you haven’t tried Zappos, it’s the leading online seller of footwear on the [...]

By: Wesley Yang’s “Paper Tigers” and the APA Identity Crisis | Current Events | 8Asians.com

Tue, 10 May 2011 19:16:20 +0000

[...] Bamboo ceiling as he calls it here), to which our very own John Lin has specifically covered in an excellent article nearly three years [...]

By: Diversity Defines Silicon Valley, Except at Town Halls | Local | 8Asians.com

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:01:14 +0000

[...] provoking for me. As you can imagine, there are a lot of Asian Americans in Silicon Valley but like in the boardroom and upper management, there are not very many Asian Americans or other ethnic minorities represented in local [...]

By: Undercover Boss Features Baja Fresh CEO David Kim | Entertainment | 8Asians.com

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:01:21 +0000

[...] under difficult life circumstances. You can catch the full episode here. It’s nice to see an Asian American business leader profiled though! MOODTHINGY v.0.2 ALPHA How does this post make you [...]

By: Boogerhead

Boogerhead — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:44:39 +0000

I think that if you are truly an idiot, your white male appearance will not save you from getting fired.

But I do think that a lot of Asians look good on paper but may be missing something socially and then they blame racism for not getting as far ahead as they would like. When I was at an undergrad business school, I can say I met people who would definitely end up getting promoted in their first jobs. Not all of them had top grades but they had top personalities: 3 Chinese girls, 6 Chinese/Korean guys, 3 White Girls and more White/Jewish guys and a few Black students but I didn’t see them that much. I credit their parents and their own natural personalities. I think the white ones really stood out. Two of the Asian males grew up pretty white and one of the Chinese girls grew up in an all white situation but her home life was very Hong Kong. I learned that it’s who you are on the inside and people are simply born with different capability levels. All the money, tutoring, plastic surgery can’t create what isn’t already there. So when I remember those Alpha personalities, I think that this study isn’t such a problem for me. That in the end the Olympic medal goes to the person who can do the best, How you look is only good for the first second,