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Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Gets A New Asian Wife!
Congratulations are in order for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his new wife, Priscilla Chan! Yes, the latter may have been Zuckerberg’s longtime girlfriend but she has now officially joined the ranks of other Asian trophy wives like Wendi Deng, Julie Chen and Soon-yi! She may be accomplished in her own right, after finishing Harvard, med school and enduring an Oscar-award winning film about her anti-social boyfriend (where the only role remotely close to hers [...] Continue »
Long Delayed K-Town Reality Show To Be Released On YouTube In July
Remember K-Town, the Jersey Shore wannabe reality show based on Asian Americans? 8Asians blogged the casting of an early promotional reel two years ago, as well as observations about the cast members and even a guest post by the producer, only to have the show slip into what felt like development hell for two years. But this week a PR release has announced that the Tyrese produced project will be released after all on YouTube [...] Continue »
Minorities Are Now Majority Of U.S. Births, Census Says
From USA Today: ”For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S,” The Associated Press writes. News from the Census Bureau is “a sign of how swiftly the USA is becoming a nation of younger minorities and older whites.” Census estimates, USA Today says, that: “Hispanics, blacks, Asians and other minorities in 2011 accounted for 50.4% of births, 49.7% of all children under 5 and slightly more [...] Continue »
Suicide Prompts Chinese To Reconsider Coming To U.S.
The recent suicide in April 2012 of 40 year old Qinggen Wang, a principal software engineer at Paypal, is driving discussions in the Chinese blogosphere about whether it’s worth it to come to the U.S. to pursue jobs, specifically ones that aren’t related to one’s passion in life.
Winner Of The 2012 “B A Hero” Hepatitis B PSA Video Contest
The winner of the 2012 “B A Hero” Hepatitus B Public Service Ad (PSA) video contest was announced, and the above video by Isaac Mejia is the winner. The runner-up is this one by Josh Prasad, and the other finalist is this one by Holvin Louie. For those who don’t know, Hepatitis B is an incurable liver infection that affects one in ten Asian Americans and kills one out of four of those infected. It [...] Continue »
South Korea’s Adoption Day & the Transnational Network Of Families
According to this article from the Wall Street Journal, May 11th is Adoption Day in South Korea. The article interviews Jane Jeong Trenka, who was adopted from South Korea to the US. She currently works in South Korea as the president of Truth & Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK), where she envisions changing societal prejudices against single mothers raising children on their own – because 92% of adoptees from South Korea are born to [...] Continue »
How High Heels Are Today’s Foot-binding
When I read the article about Chinese foot-binding in the Los Angeles Times, I really found it highlighted the complexity of the practice of foot-binding. On the one hand it was a painful, dangerous, demeaning, and debilitating practice that women were coerced to engage in. On the other hand, it’s a historical tradition, an expression of conceptions of beauty from a certain human time and place, and a wealth of treasured shared experiences cherished by [...] Continue »
100 Years Of Asian American Immigration Documents To Be Publicly Available
I have always envied white Americans who talked about researching their genealogy as what little of my family’s written records were lost in WWII, but soon, some other Asian Americans will not have that envy. Immigration records for Asian Americans, some dating back more than 100 years, are being made available to the public. “Just the other day, I had a woman see a photo of her father. She burst into tears in our research [...] Continue »
The Past, Present, And Future Of Asian American Basketball
With a knee injury ending Linsanity for the 2012 regular season, one might wonder about the future of Asian American basketball. Is all of the current enthusiasm over basketball just a temporary craze that will fizzle out? Will another Jeremy Lin emerge? To answer those questions, it’s helpful to look at the past history of Asian American basketball to see where it is going in the future.
“Cards of Legend” Legend of Zelda Playing Cards
There are few universes which could justify to be labeled “epic”, but the lands of Miyamoto’s Legend of Zelda series is definitely one of those few deserving. The lore and characters extend to more than Link, Zelda and Ganondorf. From Fairies to Gorans to Dekus, it’s the most fully fleshed fantasy land since Lord of the Rings. It’s only appropriate that those other races be treated like royalty. That’s exactly the idea of these “Cards [...] Continue »
Nyan Cat Adventure
Although it doesn’t contribute much to their economy, you can say that one of Japan’s major exports is cats. From Totoro’s Catbus to the YouTube sensation Maru, there’s no shortage of adored neko from Japan. Another such famous cat that took YouTube by storm was Nyan Cat, and now it’s making the transition from your computer to your phone. Nyan Cat Adventures ($0.99) features everyone’s pop-tart laden, rainbow spewing kitty. Originally released on Xbox Live [...] Continue »
Giveaway: Exclusive Gift Bag from Staple Design
UPDATE: Congrats to our winners: Douglas C, Becca K, Vapaw, Shawn A! Over on GASP!, there’s been a lot of buzz regarding the impending Spring/Summer collections by various designers. One company in particular, Staple Design, was featured for both its lead Jeff Ng and their fabulous new collection. Better known as jeffstaple, Jeff presides over a small empire that boosts a retail space cum art gallery (Reed Space NYC and Reed Space Tokyo), menswear collection [...] Continue »
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