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By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:01:53 +0000

A nice profile of Jason Wu in The New York Times:

The Spotlight Finds Jason Wu
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/fashion/25WU.html

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:01:00 +0000

A nice profile of Jason Wu in The New York Times:

The Spotlight Finds Jason Wu
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/fashion/25WU.html

By: Jinra

Jinra — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:09:52 +0000

Heard of Alexander Wang? He was heavily regarded by the fashion blogosphere as the ‘IT’ designer of 2008. He also picked up a CDFA award last year — the equivalent of an Oscar in the fashion world.

By: Jinra

Jinra — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:09:00 +0000

By: Phở Kinh Yue

Phở Kinh Yue — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:23:58 +0000

Tim. I’m aware of the San Jose situation, again governments seem to have a major role in these situations. Little Saigons are historic to Vietnamese people, because many of the refugees were from South Vietnam. The Saigon of today is known as Ho Chi Minh City. I would think it would also be giving homage to the fallen city of Saigon as well. Vietnam of today is communist, as simple as that.

If you were to open a business in any of those Little Saigons, and put the communist flag in front of your store…most likely you’re not going to meet many friendly Vietnamese people. Some of the Vietnamese will also protest if the Communist flag is beign used to represent VIetnam. However, ask any person of Vietnamese descent if they are offended if they are called “Vietnamese”. I would say no. Are they going to complain and asked to be be something called like “Saigonese?” similar to how people from Hong Kong would rather be called something like Hong Kongnese rather than Chinese? .

I’m not saying don’t say Taiwan or Taiwanese, I’m simply saying the Taiwan people of today can and are considered as Chinese. I’m simply also saying the people of Hong Kong, can and are considered as Chinese. Just like the South Vietnamese of Vietnam, can and are considered as Vietnamese. The people of South Korea can and are considered as Korean. To expand that as well, the people of the Philippines can and are considered as Asian.

To Jun: Bích is a Vietnamese name, just like Phúc is as well. Kinh is the ethnic group that originates from Vietnam. Since Phở seems to be the most popular Vietnamese food, I chose to combine all 3. I will also use Phở Kinh Yue, as Yue would also be showing tribute to not only the Kinh but also the Yue of Vietnam.

Steve: I agree with your opinion, but I also see there’s a lot of internval rivarly and hate between Asians. It’s become so ridiculous that you have certain groups in USA that are extremely offended by the term, “ASIAN” i.e. Filipino-Americans, and will use ignorant stereotypes to justify that they are not Asian. Some examples would be “Hey! we don’t have slanted eyes!….hey! Our island is in the Pacific! hey! we’re brown”. Since you know it seems many people believe that Asian is exclusive to East Asians, or in particular only Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans.

Steve: I understand how you would rather be known as Taiwanese, I really do and I’m not saying don’t call yourself Taiwanese either. I also have family and friends from Taiwan as well and I don’t care if they would rather be called Taiwanese. It’s just my opinion that people of today, from Taiwan, can and are considered as Chinese.

I would like to conclude this with a quote from the movie, Cool Runnings.

“If we look Jamaicain, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaicain, and is Jamaican. Then we sure as hell bobsled Jamaican.”