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To The White Guy Who Tried To Give Me Pointers On How To Snag A White Guy
To the white guy who tried to give me pointers on how to snag a white guy: My professional obligation in the context at hand was to convince you to sign a contract that would fork over half a million dollars to my company and so I couldn’t say then any of what I am about to say now.
White Tigers: Being Caught Between Western And Asian Cultures
By Louis I was speaking to one of my professors that only until recently I have gained tremendous respect for. His philosophy when he first came to Canada as a new immigrant was to completely immerse himself in a new environment by being receptive to it and not posting up a ‘shell’ of isolation like most people do. It broke new ground for me because I realized that although we attribute the word ‘assimilation’ as [...] Continue »
How To Be A Bad Asian: I Think All East Asian Babies Look The Same
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. How To Be A Bad Asian is an ongoing series of personal essays by the 8Asians writers about what sets us apart from the API community, how we deal with the stereotypes that we put [...] Continue »
The 8Asians Talk About: Lil Kim Jong Il
Our internal e-mail lists have us discussing all kinds of stuff: Asian American identity, representation in the media, the experiences of activism in an academia setting and its progression as we transition to the working, adult world. And sometimes, people talk about babies. Babies that are dressed like dead repressive dictators. And whether we’re supposed to be all “yay it’s a baby” or “boo, it’s a baby dressed as a dictator” or “lulz, it’s a [...] Continue »
An Asian American Soldier Reflects on Private Danny Chen
This article was originally posted on ryansappa and has be reposted here with permission. By Daniel Kim The subtitle to this should be “The Death of the NCO [Non-commissioned officer] Corps.” This is a post I didn’t want to write, if only because of certain memories I knew it would stir. I’ve thought, what could I possibly have in common with two kids half my age, whom I’d never met, and who killed themselves in [...] Continue »
When I Tried To Join The Military: Reflections on Private Danny Chen
Most of my friends don’t know this about me, but in college, I tried to join the Marine Corps. I haven’t told too many people about it; when I think about it now, it seems absurd. But when I was in college, I actually took the bus down to the recruiting station, spoke to an officer, and filled out a card. That was eight years ago. My attempt to join the military has since faded [...] Continue »
Religion and Depression in Asian Youth
No matter how often Religion and Depression in Asian Youth – a topic that was blogged on 8Asians three years ago – is blogged about, written, or discussed, I’m not so sure we’ll come to a concrete, definitive conclusion. But that’s okay. I’ll pose the question here for discussion: Is religion really the cause of depression in Asian teens?
How To Be A Bad Asian: Flunk Your (Native) Language Course
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. How To Be A Bad Asian is an ongoing series of personal essays by the 8Asians writers about what sets us apart from the API community, how we deal with the stereotypes that we put upon ourselves [...] Continue »
Asian American Commercial Watch: McDonald’s – Egg McMuffin of Boyfriends
I was watching one of my favorite shows last week, Modern Family, and came across this McDonald’s commercial for the egg McMuffin. To my absolute surprise, I see a young couple with an attractive Asian American young adult professing his love to his girlfriend. His white girlfriend. I was kind of a bit shocked. I had blogged about Randall Park in his Ally Bank commercial, but this is McDonald’s!
Westernized Chinese Food and Westernized Chinese People
By Calvin The Montreal Gazette published an article in November about “vintage Chinese restaurants” in that city, meaning the “dying breed” of restaurants that served Canadian Chinese cuisine. These days, writing on Westernized Chinese food (see my review of Banquet and The Fortune Cookie Chronicles for some good book-length examples) often points out how foreign this cuisine is to Chinese people: “When I first saw the menu, I was like, ‘What’s that? And what’s that?’ [...] Continue »
How To Be A Bad Asian: I Love Kung Fu
Life is hard enough as an Asian. Not all of us can get perfect SAT scores, graduate from medical school or trick out a Honda Civic. The pressure to embrace our culture remains but sometimes, we just don’t want to. How To Be A Bad Asian is an ongoing series of personal essays by the 8Asians writers about what sets us apart from the API community, how we deal with the stereotypes that we put [...] Continue »
Finding The Right Formula For Parenting
By Hua Jing Li My father often in his defense spoke these words: “You will only understand a parent’s decision, when you become a parent yourself.” Nowadays though I am not a parent yet, I able to comprehend apart of my father’s logic. Throughout my childhood, there was a lack of attention from my parents. My father, who arrived in Liverpool in the earlier 90s, a marine engineer, who hoped for a better life in [...] Continue »
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