8 Asians

It was announced by Ronald Takaki’s family that famous  Asian American historian committed suicide after a twenty year struggle with multiple sclerosis. You can read the obituary from the LA Times here.
Ron Takaki was a hero of mine when I first started taking Asian American studies in 1993, having read his famous textbook Strangers from [...]

In a stunning revelation, the Committee of 100 just published a report about Chinese Americans and Asian Americans stating that Americans who aren’t Asian can’t tell us apart.  What’s interesting to note is that this group had done a similar study back in 2001 and found that the findings in 2009 were almost identical to [...]

I’m sure all of my fellow Asian Americans under a certain age have seen this — a non-Asian person with tattoos in different Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese because they’re in an exotic language that they don’t understand.  It’s kinda painful when someone who’s fluent in these languages have to point out that the [...]

To my fellow Asian men: Found yourself out of a job? Need a quick way to make some cash while maintaining your dignity — and making women happy?
If you’re close to Oregon Health Sciences University, a lab might have the perfect part-time job for you: Sperm donor.
According to Portland’s KGW News, the head of [...]

So during one of my recent pharmacy school interviews, I was asked about the future of pharmacy. After I mentioned about how pharmacogenomics, or how genetics influences drug metabolism, will be used to help create drugs to benefit people of color, the professor who was interviewing me said sheepishly, “Uh, the only thing that [...]

I’m sure most of you lovely readers have seen the infamous YouTube clip of the woman from Hong Kong who went bat-shit crazy after missing her flight:

Now comes the sequel: Hong Kong woman goes bat-shit crazy after finding out she can’t have shark fin soup (thanks very much to Campusfork as well as YvesPaul for [...]

From Granta.com comes a beautifully written piece by Alexander Chee on his father, which is actually a series of recollections on authors and their fathers.  I don’t think there’s anything more that needs to be said by me since I’d just give it away.  Just read it.
It made me wonder how I’d write about my [...]

While catching up on my twitter feeds, I noticed a rather interesting article from rayfilwong’s blog, Campusfork: UC Berkeley students protest Panda Express.  Apparently a group of 40 students last week  protested after Panda Express expressed interest in setting up a restaurant on campus, though given the take from SFGate and the Daily Californian, there [...]