8 Asians

“She’s too fragile!”
I have heard this a number of times from Asian parents as an explanation why they don’t let their daughters play sports.   I’m glad that the Filipino parents of Asian-Canadian Katie Reyes didn’t feel that way.   Katie is one of two girls who played in the Little League World Series. As filamako.com points [...]

While Hollywood studios are busy making light of hate crimes on Asians,  Ryan “Nigahiga” Higa’s “Asian” style video channel is, at of time of this post, the most subscribed channel on YouTube.  In the video below, he thanks his fans for subscribing to his channel and making him #1.

We have talked previously about Asian American [...]

“He’s Punjabi just like me!”
That’s what The Daughter’s Friend J said about Jay Sean, whose song “Down (Featuring Lil Wayne)” is number 6 on Billboard’s Hot 100 at the time of this post.  I had heard the song before, but I had no idea that he was Asian.  Given the difficulties that Asians have had [...]

On our family vacation to San Diego, we visited friends in the heavily Filipino city of Chula Vista.  To my surprise, one of my friend’s sons was studying for his Filipino quiz the next day!  I blogged about language retention and Filipinos before as have others.  While I have complained about the lack of Filipino [...]

“You Asians Ruined Everything!”
My Brother-In-Law, a realtor in Silicon Valley, was taken aback when a white real estate agent suddenly said this to him.  The agent was complaining about the negative practices of some Asian-American real estate agents.  My Brother-In-Law (I’ll call him BIL for short – he lives with me as part of [...]

I was flipping through channels when I saw an AVP beach volleyball tournament.  Having played and coached volleyball for many years, I settled on that channel.  The score display said:
Gibb/Rosenthal 4, Wong/Olson 4
Wong?  One doesn’t see many names like that on the beach volleyball circuit.  Kevin Wong is a 6-7 professional beach volleyball player (who [...]

Officials from the California Department of Fish and Game having been going to fishing piers and Chinese and Vietnamese markets in Southern California looking for people catching or buying white croaker (pictured).  This article from the San Jose Mercury News mentions that

chemical companies in Southern California dumped large amounts of DDT and PCBs into sewers [...]

“Do I have to play basketball this summer?” asked Number One Son.  He really didn’t want to do sports this summer, and apparently he is not alone.  This article mentions that Asian-American boys have the lowest sports participation rate (39%) for 10th grade males of any American ethnic group.  Asian-American girls have the second lowest [...]