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A 30something, 1.5 generation Korean-American/New Yorker who spends her day as an HR exec. specializing in corporate diversity & inclusion. I get to think about ways to make "The Man" less male, white, and straight. It's the best job in the world! When I'm not trying to change corporate America, I teach yoga and dabble in holistic health counseling. I have an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and my undergraduate from the University of Michigan. Lesser known facts about me: I enjoy b&w film photography, training for endurance races, and making homemade jam. Other mindless observations can be found at http://itsbo.blogspot.com/
Catching Up With the Joneses
Over the weekend, the NY Times reported on a new Census Bureau analysis of the most common surnames in the US. For the first time, two Hispanic surnames – Garcia and Rodriguez – made the top 10 most common in the nation. Martinez nearly cracked the top 10, coming in just after Wilson at number 11. So, where do we Asians fall into the mix? The highest ranking Asian surname was none other than Lee, [...] Continue »
The day the Lees discovered Thanksgiving
This month’s issue of Gourmet magazine features a fusion Thanksgiving menu inspired by the flavors of “the east” aka Japan, China, and India. Traditional turkey day eats are updated and become Pumpkin, Corn, and Lemongrass Soup, Roasted Japanese Sweet Potatoes with Scallion Butter, and Indian Spiced Pickled Vegtables among others. Gourmet’s rock-staresque editor, Ruth Reichl, explains the inspiration for this menu by stating: “In our test kitchen we have one…Asian woman, and [she] started telling us about dishes [she was] going to [...] Continue »
AKA… Also Known As
Today’s New York Times blog ran an intriguing opinion piece written by a Korean-born woman adopted by a white American family. In the essay, Hollee McGinnis aka Lee Hwa Keong, ruminates about the loses and gains of transracial and ethnic adoptions: My personal awakening to the losses of adoption began in my late adolescence when I became aware that strangers assumed I was not an American because I did not have blond hair and blue [...] Continue »
Paris Hilton loves Korea
Paris Hilton has landed in South Korea. Koreans all around the world can now be comforted by the knowledge that we are, like, “so hot.” This is her first time in Korea, so she gushed about the beautiful Korean scenery. Hilton also said she loved bibimbap and would like to eat more of it during her trip. “I love everything about Korea. People are amazing. I look forward to coming here more often. I wish [...] Continue »
Acting [fill in the blank]
Roland Fryer is an economist at Harvard who has done research on “acting white” in the black community. According to the good folks over at Freakonomics, Fryer recently learned that exceling in academia is no longer called “acting white” and instead is referred to as “acting asian“. My question is, why do we EVER label any sort of achievement or culturally divergent behavior as “acting”? What is accomplished by calling a person an Oreo, Twinke, [...] Continue »
Does this mean I can also blame Confucius for my bum knee?
This LA Times article about the Korean-American communities rethinking of achievement strikes me in a funny sort of way…and not good funny. The article asserts that, in the shadow of a few very public f-ups by a handful of Korean-Americans, the community is rethinking whether the stress generated by the struggle for academic and financial achievement is worth the toll it takes on individual members of the community. “Other parents told me I am not [...] Continue »
Which form of racism is worse?
James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA’s double helix shape and probably one of the most well known figures in modern science, announced today that he would be resigning from his position as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and from its board. This follows after some comments he made earlier this week questioning the intelligence of people of African descent. Here are some choice quotes: [I'm] “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa [because] all our social policies are [...] Continue »
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