8 Asians

We received a link from a reader who thought that Ernie was kidding in this conversation with Rosemary about Filipino names but realized he wasn’t when she saw this link featuring a Filipina girl named Belldandy whose parents dress her up in cosplay outfits.   What kind of parent names their kid Belldandy?”   A Filipino parent [...]

Are Asian-American kids the most fit in California?  They are if you exclude Filipinos and Pacific Islanders.  According to Kidsdata.org, the percentage of Asian-American 7th and 9th graders in 2008 who meet all fitness standards is greater than any other California ethnic group including whites.  Physical fitness is measured through the California Physical Fitness Test, [...]

“What are you?”
asked the Chinese graduate student, looking at me.  We had hired him and a Korean graduate student to intern in my research group.  They knew I was some kind of Asian but they couldn’t figure out what kind from my name and my appearance.   In the rarefied  academic world of research and graduate [...]

How many Asian-Americans are too many?  That’s one of the key questions that I see coming out of the Boston Globe’s op-ed piece “Do Colleges Redline Asian-Americans?” I’ve talked before about the Princeton study cited in the article, which says that Asian-Americans applying to elite colleges have to work harder than whites to get in.  [...]

Want to tell the world about your Asian-American stories and experiences?  Jonathan Yi, who is working on a mini-documentary for Asian American Heritage month, is looking for you!  He’s seeking a wide variety of stories about the Asian American.  They could be about your grandparents, your favorite food, or your life growing up.  “As long [...]

Having coached both of my sons in basketball, I can understand how frustrating it can be to have your team lose.  But Mark Ho and Jannie Han took things a bit too far when the 21 year old Han, coach of the freshman girls basketball team at heavily Asian San Gabriel High, suited up and [...]

Harvard-Westlake of North Hollywood’s Nicole Hung was selected as California State Athlete of the week by ESPN’s Calhisports.com.  Not only is she a great basketball player, scoring 24 points and pulling down 12 rebounds in a recent 70-67 victory, but this 6-0 girl has a 4.2 GPA, plays piano like a concert pianist, and plays [...]

Last year, during the depths of the financial crises, groups of investors from China toured the US looking at real estate opportunities.  While many in the US real estate industry hoped that this would bring a wave of Chinese buying, this article from the New York Times says that Chinese are being Looky Lous – [...]

You might wonder how UC Berkeley 7-3 center Max Zhang could have room to grow, but he’s growing in many ways:
Growing in size.  How could a 7-3 man grow in size?  Not in terms of height, but in bulk.  His coaches say that he needs to add bulk and strength, as he arrived from China [...]

One of the few things that I look forward to when I have to go to my Wells Fargo bank branch is looking at the photo murals there.  On one wall are long ago scenes of Chinatowns and also pictures of the Filipino farm workers from the 1920s and 1930s.  Wells Fargo also has a [...]

Here on 8asians, we have talked about education and the pressures to do well on college entrance exams.  We have also talked about how some Asian-Amercians parents force their kids into sports in order to have them round out their applications.   But this news from China seems to be something new.  According to this news [...]

Of the many people affected by the recession, some not typically thought about are Indian Americans.   Just a few years ago, Indian Americans were lauded for their success in the hotel and motel industry, owning 43% of all hotels and motels in the United States in 2007 according to this USA Today article.  With the [...]