Posts by Lily
Lily Huang is a writer of Taiwanese descent, who lives on the East coast. She grew up in suburbia completely oblivious to Asian culture, and is making up for it now.
Cultural Psychology: the Power Distance Index and Asian Culture
I read a lot of cultural psychology, and find that it is relevant to my experiences as an Asian American and explains a lot of the dynamics I see around me. I want to share some of these ideas and hope that they are relevant to others. Most of these ideas come from Geert Hofstede, a cultural psychologist who surveyed the employees at the multinational company IBM and identified four dimensions or characteristics of cultures. [...] Continue »
APACUNT and National Asian American Theater Festival
Something to do in New York: the National Asian American Theater Festival. This year’s festival seems to have very little connection to the performances from the first NAATF in 2007, which offered twenty-five groups and a lot more variety. Here are the options: Sharif Don’t Like It, a one man show about the treatment of people of Asian and Middle Eastern descent after 9/11, Bahu-Beti-Biwi, an Indian dance, Imelda, a musical about Imelda Marcos, APACUNT, [...] Continue »
Racial Microaggressions
One night as I got home to my apartment building, some guys were hanging around outside. As I passed, one of them said something about Chinese food. It was something like, “Chinese food is the worst. It’s gross.” I might’ve thought nothing of it, but he said it right as I passed, and interrupted whomever was talking to do so. Then I looked over and saw who was talking. It was the same guy who [...] Continue »
3rd International Secret Agents Concert Showcases Asian American Talent
In Los Angeles at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, over a thousand Asian Americans spent their Labor Day rocking out at the International Secret Agents concert. Produced by the hip hop group Far*East Movement and Wong Fu Productions, the concert featured a variety of talent including the dance group Quest Crew, YouTube personality KevJumba and musicians David Choi and Kina Grannis. Far*East Movement (FM) had the most spectacular performance with strobe lights, colored panels, and [...] Continue »
Claustrophobia, Paper Heart at the Asian American International Film Festival
Claustrophobia will play on opening night (tonight!) of the Asian American International Film Festival. The screening will be its New York premiere. Q&A with Ivy Ho follows. Also playing tonight: Paper Heart, a documentary by Charlyne Yi who goes in search of other people’s stories of true love – and gets a little love story of her own (with Michael Cera!). Claustrophobia is an introverted, reflective film about four co-workers in a carpool and the [...] Continue »
LOLcats: a New Yorker Caption Contest for the Masses
LOLcats is, in simple terms, a website that has pictures of cats with funny captions. If you haven’t seen the site, go now because seeing it is better than any explanation. The owner of the site, Ben Huh, spoke at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop last night. It was a reminder that even a deceptively simple concept such as “zany pictures of cats” needs the right infrastructure and a million factors in the right place [...] Continue »
Asian Organizations in New York City
This is a Google Map of Asian and Asian American resources in New York City. I started this map to help me remember them geographically so I could recommend the nearest “Asian thing” to any given person (New Yorkers are very lazy and often are only willing to go within twenty blocks of themselves.) All of these have been around for years and will probably stick around. Well, Subway Cinema complained in last year’s Asian [...] Continue »
Review: Everything Asian by Sung J. Woo
In Everything Asian, Dae Joon Kim is a 12 year old kid whose family has just moved from Korea to New Jersey. Or more precisely, Dae Joon, his mother and his sister have come from Korea to join the father who has been living there alone for five years. The novel depicts their struggle to reintegrate as a family, as well as to make it in America. The setting is an outdoor strip mall in [...] Continue »
The Owl and the Sparrow
There’s a part of me that’s too tough, wise, and jaded for a film about a Vietnamese kid who runs away and must find a way to survive in Ho Chi Minh City. But there’s also a part of me that will always be touched by children and loneliness and getting torn from those you love, or brought finally together. The tagline of The Owl and the Sparrow is “Three strangers. Five days.” The first [...] Continue »
A Portrait of Chinese Americans
The Asian American Studies Department at the University of Maryland has published a report called A Portrait of Chinese Americans. This pdf contains information about residential patterns, employment, and demographic and social profiles. To make the data friendlier to the public, it’s full of dorky photos and graphics and little personal blurbs from individual Chinese Americans. Personally, I think this report could have been a LOT more fun — I think I need the kids’ [...] Continue »
But the Panda was my Favorite
While walking through Chinatown last weekend, my friend stopped at a poster and said, “Look, the Beijing Olympic mascots.” She pointed at each one and said its name– “Bei, Jing, Huan, Ying, Ni–” and explained that when you read their names together, they make the phrase “Beijing Welcomes You.” “That one’s the best,” I said, pointing at the panda. So I was embarrassed to learn from a Wall Street Journal article that Han Meilin, the [...] Continue »
Ping Pong Playa!
You know a good comedy when you laugh right through it —and afterwards when someone asks, “What it was about?” you say, “Oh I don’t know. It was just about this guy. He was trying to play ping pong.” Just go see it. Okay, fine. This guy- his name is Christopher Wang. He calls himself “C-dub.” Other people pronounce his last name with a twang. And he corrects them, “Wahh-ng. Wong.” He’s into basketball, but [...] Continue »
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