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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.
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 »
Maternity Tourism Not Only Used For Anchor Babies
A new article from Star News on Maternity Tourism in Queens, NY challenges the previous assumption that Maternity Tourism — the act of a foreigner coming to the U.S. solely for the purpose of delivering their baby in the U.S. to get citizenship — in the Chinese community is just for citizenship. I previously wrote about a house that was shut down in San Gabriel, CA for code violations and was obviously housing Chinese moms [...] Continue »
Pickled Vegetables Like Kimchi Put Asians At More Risk For Cancer
Buried in the news last week that the World Health Organization put cell phones on the list of carcinogens were articles talking about how pickled vegetables and coffee were also on the list of items that cause cancer. Slate was one site that picked up on this and realized that put certain groups, specifically Asians, at greater risk for cancer than others. Most Asians eat more vegetables than other ethnicities, generally considered to prevent cancer, [...] Continue »
Jon Huntsman Speaking Chinese Becomes Hindrance to Evangelical Republicans
Apparently, speaking Chinese can just about kill your chances in politics. At least for Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman, a former Utah Governor, who is fluent in Mandarin. Huntsman took the time during a recent campaign stop to pitch part of his speech in Chinese. From a Mother Jones article on the event: Huntsman had other plans apparently, launching into his speech with a demonstration of his Chinese fluency. As his first introduction to the [...] Continue »
Am I The Worst Asian American Parent Ever?
With all the recent focus on Tiger Moms and dads, along with almost everything I find lately on the internet, I can’t help but wonder, “Am I the worst Asian American parent ever?” It doesn’t help that my own cousin is sending his kids to after school Chinese tutoring school for math and reading (I mean really, does a 3 year old need to know arithmetic already?) because he doesn’t think the public school and [...] Continue »
Chinese Art Prices Soar In Recent Auctions
The New York Times is reporting that prices for Chinese art (even pieces that can not be substantiated to certain claimed dates of origin), have been fetching incredible amounts at recent auctions at Sotheby’s in New York and London. The astronomical prices are attributed to Chinese citizens exhibiting extreme nationalist pride by trying to bring art pieces back to the homeland.
3 Pandas Storybook iOS Application Review
When I was offered the chance to review a complimentary copy of the new iOS application (for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch), the 3 Pandas Animated Storybook from See Here Studios, I had high expectations for this children’s story book that was in both Chinese and English. Here was a chance for my own 5 year old daughter to play with an application where she could pick up some Chinese words, and maybe undo some [...] Continue »
Cooperation: Another Reason For A Bamboo Ceiling?
A new study in Organization Science found some interesting differences in the way Americans and Chinese perceive what is considered cooperation. In many cases the American respondents and Chinese respondents selected exactly opposite actions as examples of “cooperation.” On one question about the willingness to drop one’s own activity to help another group member with a different task, Americans said the faster that people do that, the more cooperative they seem. But the Chinese said [...] Continue »
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