Via Times of India: “Based on the profile of the type of Internet user who is most likely to use Facebook by the Nielsen report, the person is an Asian-American female between the age of 18 and 34, lives in New England, makes less than 50,000 dollars per year, and has at least a bachelor’s degree.” Somehow I get the feeling that there’s not a ton of overlap between the New Englanders and the Asian Americans, unless there’s a bunch of Asians in Rhode Island that we haven’t been reaching out to. That said, congratulations, Jenny Wongs and Esther Parks of the world: you’re going to get a whole bunch of Facebook invitations to some user research studies on that crappy Facebook design they did last night very, very soon.
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As we reported earlier, Chipotle’s new concept restaurant is called ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen and they made their debut in Washington D.C. just this past week. The popular restaurant chain is taking on a new concept similar to their typical stores—customers will still be going down the line and customizing their food. However, instead of serving not authentic Mexican food, they will now serve not authentic Asian food.
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From Korea Times: “Professor Kim Yung-hee was an academic warrior who helped the Korean arts and literature department of Ohio State University in Columbus survive academic restructuring in the early 1990s…Nearly two decades later, Kim, currently director of the Center for Korean Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, is wrestling with a fresh challenge…The class size of Korean studies there is shrinking…Students’ lack of interest in Korean studies came as a bit of a surprise, considering the number of undergraduate students taking Korean language courses at the University of Hawaii has continued to increase. Approximately, 300 to 400 students attend the course every semester.” I remember the first time I heard there was an Asian American Studies major available in some schools, and my first thought was, “What are people going to do with that degree?” Of course, the same was often asked of me as an English and Religion major.
I love dogs. Probably more than people. Actually, I love my dog, Rabbit (that’s him in the above picture) much more than people. Let’s put it this way, if Rabbit was trapped in a fire and almost anyone else were also trapped in the fire, I would walk over that person to get to my dog. Only when he was safe would I consider going back inside. If you have a pet, you know what I mean. If you don’t, then shake your head and judge me. I don’t care. I love my dog more than you anyway.
Since this not a personal blog but a blog dedicated to all things Asian, I thought I would run down for you my personal top 10 favorite Asian dog breeds.
One day when I went to my gym’s mat room to stretch, a woman was already there hitting the heavy bag. Wearing clothes festooned with Cung Le gym logos, she was kicking the bag so hard the entire room was shaking. I can get the room to shake a little bit, but she was making it shake A LOT. I wondered if a Cung Le student could generate that kind of power and how hard could Cung Le himself kick. Apparently, very hard. Cung Le is famous for breaking Frank Shamrock’s arm to take the Strikeforce MMA middleweight championship. After working as an actor (see a dynamic fight scene between him and Donnie Yen after the jump), he is taking his first fight in the UFC, meeting Vitor Belfort in UFC 139.
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Back in 2006, the documentary The Slanted Screen debuted, which by the documentary’s own website’s words:
“… explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood’s image-making machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film clips spanning a century.”
I have a copy of the DVD, but the documentary is now available online for free on YouTube in four 15-minute parts. I remember first seeing the documentary and being amazed at the history of blatant Hollywood racism preserved in media after and despite of Sessue Hayakawa’s breakthrough roles in silent films . I have to think that this documentary is required watching in any standard Asian American Studies curriculum or class.
You follow 8Asians for your APA news, but who do you turn to for your Asian and Asian American pop culture? The last issue of Giant Robot ($4.99) will give you the satisfaction of holding the glossy pictures in your hands. Unfortunately no new issues are being published, but Giant Robot continues to update on their website.
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Jamie Chung in a leading role opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt? At least that’s what Slashfilm was predicting for the upcoming film Premium Rush: “Chung would play Levitt’s ex-girlfriend, ‘a fellow daredevil bike messenger who helps him outwit the cop.’” It seemed exciting enough that Chung was rising from the ranks of being a borderline reality star to actually appearing in legitimate cinema and, finally, a co-starring role with one of young Hollywood’s big names. But a few days ago, when the trailer for Premium Rush finally dropped, we saw something different: Chung was now playing a Chinese girl with broken English who gets caught in the crossfire.
We have talked about how Giselle Esteban was arrested for murder in the Michelle Le missing person case; investigators say that cell phone records show Giselle Esteban and Michelle Le’s phone both took similar paths to the Sunol Canyon area, and searchers have found a body there. The body was so badly decomposed that investigators could not say whether they believed the body was Michelle Le. A coroner’s office spokesman said that it may take up to a week to confirm if the body is Michelle Le from dental records and DNA tests.
EDITORS UPDATE: A sad follow-up to this story, as the remains have been identified as Michelle Le. A memorial service is being planned.
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Solitary Bengali men stood around, barefoot, their knee-length lungi (a long cloth tied around the waist) dripping with mud and sea water. A few aligned to tug a rope tied to a hunk of metal that sat, upturned, several yards to my right. Some were gazing out into the junk-filled horizon, perhaps thinking about the work that still needed to be done. But most had stopped to stare at my friend and I, two non-Bengali American women, as we took in our surroundings.
APA Faith Matters is a periodic interview of Asian Pacific American (APA) leaders in various religious contexts. It highlights those leaders who are passionate about social justice issues that matter to APA communities and work from within their religious contexts.
Rev. Rita Nakashima Brock, PhD, is the director of Faith Voices for the Common Good, a non-profit organization that works on innovative, creative strategies for social change. The group brings diverse religious leaders and organizations together to work for the common good. Dr. Brock has a compelling spiritual journey – one that began in Japan as she writes in her book, Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us, “in daily Buddhist and Shinto rituals in my grandparents’ house and in frequent village festivals,” and continues on in a Protestant context today, as she is a licensed minister by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Northern California and Nevada. She is vocal about a wide range of social justice issues including interreligious dialogue, reproductive choice for women, and environmental conscientiousness – a compelling voice.
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