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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.
Awareness of Ethnicity Based Stigma Starts Young
Researchers from UCLA have determined that children as young as second graders recognize stigma based on their ethnicity, and feel more anxious based on the stigma they receive. I could have told you the same thing based on my experiences with my own daughter who hasn’t even reached the second grade yet. She’s had anxiety about being different since pre-school, and I’m hoping it doesn’t get any worse. I’ve already written about her anxiety around [...] Continue »
Male Circumcision & Culture Clash: To Cut Or Not To Cut
Even before my partner and I started the process of having a child, there were discussions about whether circumcision made sense for any new born male baby. It’s a topic that’s widely debated still, and there’s more of a growing movement against the practice. It was certainly top of mind for us, before we found out we were going to have a baby girl, which probably saved us a lot of anguish over having to [...] Continue »
Asian Americans Lose Top Income Spot
If you look closely enough at the numbers in a new Pew research report, Twenty to One, you’ll find that Asian American households have dropped from having the highest median household wealth in 2005, having lost 54% of their assets by 2009 during the “Great Recession” (by contrast white households lost 16%). In the report, the actual numbers show that for Asian American households, “net worth fell from $168,103 in 2005 to $78,066 in 2009″. [...] Continue »
U.S. News’ Gold Medal High School List & Asian American Students
U.S. News and World Report put out their “Gold Medal” list of the top 100 public high schools in the United States. As expected some of the real estate forums in the San Francisco Bay Area picked this up and it started some lively debates on buying housing for the schools and school district; and of course conversations on the Asian American population in those neighborhoods and attending one of those schools. The first comment [...] Continue »
Why You Should Not Teach Your Child Chinese
With the start of the new school year, the usual topics around which school to send your child, and the extra-curricular activities your child is attending become the common topics of conversation around the water cooler at work. For Asian Americans those conversations are a little more intense, and a little bit imbued with criticism when your responses don’t quite match up to the other person’s expectations. We’ve talked previously on 8Asians about the lofty [...] Continue »
Asian American Senior Citizens Hit Hard By Recession
In a roller-coaster week for many American’s finances, there was even worse news for Asian American elders. We already knew that Asian Americans were hit harder by the recession, and a new study from the Greenlining Institute shows that seniors of color have been especially hard hit by the recession, and in particular, there are pockets of poverty in the Asian American elder community, specifically mentioned were the Hmong, Korean and Cambodian communities.
Back to School Shopping, Asian American Style [SPONSORED POST]
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Thank you to Crocs for sponsoring this blog post. Please click here to learn more about Crocs’ new Back to School line. I was selected for this sponsorship by the Clever Girls Collective. All opinions expressed here are my own. Scarily enough, it’s already time to think about shopping for back to school, as much as my own soon to be first-grader wants more play and vacation time. It turns out if you’re an Asian [...] Continue »
Corporal Punishment and Racial Identity
Recently, someone put out a request on Twitter for Asian views on spanking after reading a blog post on Racialicious.com on the same subject, but from the African American point of view. Our humble editor, Ernie passed it on to our internal mailing list, and the response was immediate.
1 Out Of 10 Foreign U.S. Home Buyers From China
With the U.S. Economy on the skids and the housing market going nowhere fast, it seems there might be a savior for American home owners who are desperate to sell. In many markets, home prices have declined significantly, and low prices would indicate there’s a buying opportunity for bargain hunters. Leave it to the Chinese to pick up on that fact and step in to buy up the bargains in both the luxury and investment [...] Continue »
Dealing With Asian Name Calling & Bullying
My daughter is only 5 years old and recently completed her first year of formal schooling, her year in kindergarten. Throughout the year, I could tell she was having more and more difficulty at school. In the mornings, she didn’t want me to leave when I dropped her off, and she just didn’t seem as excited about going as in the beginning of the year. We already knew she wasn’t going to attend the same [...] Continue »
The Tough Life Of An Anchor Baby
The recent news about the closing of a home in San Gabriel, CA that housed a maternity tourism business, along with the recent focus on anchor babies, has put even more light on the fate of the babies born to wealthy Chinese moms in the United States. When the news first came to light that around 340,000 of the 4.3 million babies born in 2008 had a parent without U.S. citizenship, not much thought was [...] Continue »
The Long Path to Citizenship for Asian Americans
In my small sampling of friends and relatives, which includes my parents and a close friend who is South Asian American, all of whom were immigrants to the United States, it seems obtaining U.S. citizenship hasn’t been a top priority in their lives. For my parents who came on a green card from Taiwan, they didn’t choose to get their U.S. citizenship until almost 20 years passed after they came to the U.S., a full [...] Continue »
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