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I'm a Chinese/Taiwanese-American, born in Taiwan, raised on Long Island, went to college in Philadelphia, tried Wall Street and then moved to the California Bay Area to work in high tech in 1990. I'm a recent dad and husband. Other adjectives that describe me include: son, brother, geek, DIYer, manager, teacher, tinkerer, amateur horologist, gay, and occasional couch potato. I write for about 5 different blogs including 8Asians. When not doing anything else, I like to challenge people's preconceived notions of who I should be.
Asian Egg Donors In High Demand
If you’ve been trying to have children without success, and you’ve investigated IVF (In Vitro Fertilization), then it’s probably not a surprise to you that there are fees associated with acquiring eggs from an egg donor. It’s probably also not a surprise if to you if you’ve been looking for an Asian egg donor, that Asian egg donors can command fees much higher than the norm. In a recent news report, that figure was as [...] Continue »
Asian Americans Less Likely To Use Corporal Punishment
A new study from the University of Texas shows that Asian Americans are less likely to use corporal punishment than other ethnic and racial groups. In the study authored by Elizabeth Gershoff, using a sample of 20,000 kindergartners and their parents, she found that 89% of black parents, 79% of white parents, 80% of Hispanic parents and 73% of Asian parents said they have spanked their children.
The Chinese Mythology Of Dragons and Tigers
With all the recent news on Tiger moms and the even more recent discussion on Dragon moms, it should be no surprise that tiger moms and dragon moms crept into our internal author’s mailing list as well. During a recent email thread, where we hailed one of our own authors as a dragon-tiger mom, I managed to sidetrack us onto the topic of the symbolism in Chinese culture behind tigers and dragons. Most people are [...] Continue »
Asians In America: The Under-Represented Asian Americans
Recently, I covered the some of the overview of the numbers and statistics as they relate to Asian Americans in a new report from the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice). As I mentioned in the previous article, never before have we gotten such detailed information on each of the different Asian sub-groups. I’ve already covered the Taiwanese sub-group in detail; in this post, I’m going to focus on the sub-groups that tend [...] Continue »
Asians In America: A Focus On Taiwanese Americans
Recently, I covered the some of the overview of the numbers and statistics as they relate to Asian Americans in a new report from the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice). As I mentioned in the previous article, never before have we gotten such detailed information on each of the different Asian sub-groups. In this blog post, I’m going to focus on one sub-group, and the information found around them in the report, [...] Continue »
Asians In America: An Introduction to the Numbers
One of the most common problems with trying to figure out what’s actually happening with Asians in America is that most statistics and studies lump all Asians together into a single category. A new report from the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice (Advancing Justice) changes all that. The report, titled A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans in the United States, 2011 is comprehensive, breaking statistics into each Asian subgroup and covering topics like unemployment, [...] Continue »
Chinese Americans Tend to Borrow Less
A new study by Rui Yao (the same researcher who found that Chinese Americans prefer riskier investments), found that while 72 percent of Chinese-American households hold a mortgage, only five percent of those households have outstanding auto loans, and only three percent have any other type of consumer debt. Yao has a few ideas for why there’s not as much debt in Chinese American households. “This result may reflect some unique aspects of the Chinese [...] Continue »
Mixed Race Families Still Get a Second Glance
Even in an area as progressive as the San Francisco Bay Area, it’s not unusual for my family to get a second look when we’re walking into a restaurant, store, or other public area. My family is both mixed race and same sex. So we probably get double the stares of just a mixed race family. I’ve been luckier than some mixed race families in the U.S., in that I’ve never actually had someone ask [...] Continue »
The “Asian Effect” Of APAs Outperforming Others Is Not Gene Based
There’s no doubt that Asians Americans out perform other races in elementary, middle and high school. We have plenty of test results that show Asian Americans score higher on standardized tests. In 2008, a study found that even as young as age four, Asian Americans are outperforming their peers in math and literacy. This ability to outperform is sometimes referred to as the “Asian Effect”, and sometimes attributed to Asian genes. The question remained about [...] Continue »
Talking and Conversing Like An American
When I took my daughter to Taiwan when she was four years old, there was one aspect about our relationship that always surprised my relatives. It was the way I talked to my daughter and always asked her opinion on what we should do that day, what we should eat for the next meal, and in general just including her in the conversation.
Less Asian Americans Live In Poverty
While it may seem contradictory to the news that more Asian Americans are declaring bankruptcy and had an increase in unemployment rates, it turns out less Asian Americans are at or below the poverty level. Some of the reasoning behind why the U.S. Census bureau’s numbers show Asian American poverty rates dropping to 12.1% in 2010 from 12.5% in 2009, may have to do with higher income levels in Asian American families, some of which [...] Continue »
More Asian Americans Filing For Bankruptcies
A new report from the Institute for Financial Literacy shows that over the last five years (from 2006 to 2010), Asian Americans have had the largest increase in filings for bankruptcies, essentially doubling over the last five years. This is compared with Hispanics, which rose 33%, African Americans who saw a decrease of 26% in the same period, and Caucasian/White filings essentially remained constant through the period. It’s another sign that Asian Americans were and [...] Continue »
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