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The Taiwanese Who Wasn’t: Discovering The Origins Of My Language
My life was multilingual the minute I was born. During my infant years in Taiwan, I was surrounded by Taiwanese, Japanese, Hakkanese, and Mandarin Chinese. One of my first spoken sentences was “My butt is cold” which each word in the sentence in a different language. When I came to the US, English and Spanish were heavily added to that mix. So, as you can imagine, I sometimes confused one language for the other, and [...] Continue »
Learning Mandarin Just Got A Little Sexier
WARNING: Video may be NSFW. When I was growing up in a suburb of Springfield, Massachusetts, there was nothing sexy about learning Mandarin Chinese. As a kid, my brother and I woke up early Saturday mornings so that my parents would drive us about 45 minutes up to a high school in Amherst, Massachusetts to attend Chinese school. I dreaded going to Chinese school, mostly because I had to wake up early as well as [...] Continue »
Asian Pubic Hair Questions
While doing research on Asians and body hair (Click here to read that article) I was fascinated to find that people on the Internet had a lot of interesting (mis)conceptions about Asian people’s pubic hair. Rather than trying to fit it all onto one hair related article, I decided to write a second article only about the hair no one really likes (or is it wants?) to talk about. But as an Asian American “journalist,” [...] Continue »
Minority Students And Education Media Coverage Ignores APAs
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said on Monday that “minority students across America face much harsher discipline than non-minorities, even within the same school” after the release of a study breaking down student racial demographics and suspension rates. The study also shows that APAs are suspended at extremely low rates. Unfortunately, Secretary Duncan’s comment implies that APAs are not minorities.
Racism On The Playground
With April being National Poetry Month, spring is poetry season, and this spring, while reading through Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories, an anthology collected back 1927 in New York, I found this little poem, “Foreign Children” by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde fame): FOREIGN CHILDREN Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, O! don’t you wish that you were me? You have seen the [...] Continue »
More Korean Students Want To Go Overseas
From Korea Times: “About 50 percent of middle and high school students think Korea is not a good country to live in. The survey was conducted by the National Youth Policy Institute (NYPI) on some 9,400 elementary and secondary school students nationwide from May to July last year. The result suggests a deep-rooted distrust of the country’s competition-oriented educational system, the institute said. The survey indicates that the attitude towards the country’s legal and political [...] Continue »
NYC Public Schools, The Lunar New Year Bill And 2011 CACF/Pumphouse Project Report
If I lived in New York City’s Chinatown, I wouldn’t go to school on Lunar New Year (LNY). No way would I miss out on the firecracker festivities. According to the Principal at Public School 130, many school children there share my sentiment. Around 80% of the students took absences on LNY last month, to spend the holiday with their families. So it would sound pretty reasonable to me to make LNY a public school [...] Continue »
Census Reveals More Bachelor Degrees, Asian Americans Remain “Best Educated Racial Group”
From the New York Times: “As of last March, 30.4 percent of people over age 25 in the United States held at least a bachelor’s degree, and 10.9 percent held a graduate degree, up from 26.2 percent and 8.7 percent 10 years earlier. … Asian-Americans remain the nation’s best-educated racial group, with 50.3 percent having bachelor’s degrees, and 19.5 percent holding graduate degrees.”
Asian American Whiz Kid About to Graduate from UCLA at Age 14
“People need to know you don’t really need to be a genius. You just have to work hard and you can accomplish anything,” says the fourteen year old college graduate, Moshe Kai Cavalin. Words of inspiration from a little guy? It sounds pretty promising to me! Back in 2009, we wrote about how Cavalin graduated in East Los Angeles College with a G.P.A. of 4.0 in Astrophysics at age eleven. Now, he is ready to graduate [...] Continue »
Vote For The White House “What’s Your Story” Video Challenge
Remember the “What’s your story?” video challenge launched by the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders last fall? Well now, its time to vote for “a group of these exceptional AAPI leaders to share their stories at the White House as special guests at a White House Initiative event in March”! I just watched all these videos, and what’s so exciting for me is that these are stories that would not usually [...] Continue »
Admissions Discrimination Investigation Against Harvard and Princeton Closed After Complaint Withdrawn
An investigation into whether Harvard and Princeton’s admissions discriminate against Asian Americans has been dropped after the complaint by an Indian American student in California was withdrawn. The student and his family have not said why the complaints were withdrawn. It’s not clear how the Jian Li initiated compliance review into Princeton is affected. Previous reports stated that the more recent complaint was folded into the review of Princeton as it “raised substantially identical issues,” [...] Continue »
How To Overcome Jeremy Lin Fatigue
We know how you feel and frankly, we agree with you. We’re sick of all the conversations, Facebook posts, Tweets, emails and articles about Jeremy Lin. The blogosphere, at least for Asian Americans, has been oversaturated with the latest observations about the Taiwanese American basketball player. As someone who has never followed sports, I now forcibly know enough “Lin” puns to feed a horde of starving North Korean orphans. Can you feed puns to hungry [...] Continue »
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