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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.
SF Landmark Sam Wo To Close April 20th
Sam Wo, a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown is set to close its doors on Friday, April 20, 2012. The iconic restaurant has been around for over 100 years and was famous by Edsel Ford Fong, considered the “world’s rudest, worst, most insulting waiter.” Wikipedia’s description of Fong in action: As head waiter, Fong greeted visitors with an admonition to “sit down and shut up.” He was known for calling patrons “retarded” and “fat”, [...] Continue »
RSVP For The Bay Area Screening Of ‘Detention’ With Joseph Kahn Q&A
Attention San Francisco Bay Area! There will be a FREE advanced screening of Detention on Thursday, April 13! As an added bonus, director Joseph Kahn will be there immediately after the screening for a Q&A moderated by yours truly! (That would be me, Dino-Ray Ramos). That said, if you’re in the Bay Area and you want to see actor Josh Hutcherson out of his Hunger Games element and then watch me awkwardly giggle my way [...] Continue »
The Oikos University Shooting: Mental Health and Korean American Community
There have been a number of school shootings in the news lately, with the most recent including an elementary school in the Pacific Northwest and a middle school in in Texas in 2012. I can think of few things more heartbreaking, particularly because of my work with youth, I feel deeply invested in the mental and spiritual health of young people. When it hits close to “home,” for instance, with Korean American Seung-Hui Cho and the [...] Continue »
Secretary of State of California Website Considers Taiwan To Be Province Of China
A friend of a friend posted this image on Facebook after she was looking to register to vote. Now the People’s Republic of China may think that Taiwan is a province of China, buthow about the state of California? Although the United States does not have official diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan), the United States has never stated (as far as I know) that Taiwan is a province of China (there is [...] Continue »
Sulwhasoo Niemen Marcus West Coast Launch At the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
Sulwhasoo invited 8Asians to partake in the Niemen Marcus Launch Party to celebrate the long-anticipated arrival of this amazing Korean cosmetics line here on the west coast. Fashion journalists and bloggers were invited to the Asian Art Museum to meet with the line’s key representatives. Sulwhasoo has been at Bergdorf Goodman in New York for the past year, but Amore Pacific, the parent company that owns Sulwhasoo, just made its debut in San Francisco and [...] Continue »
Vivek Wadhwa On Race, Gender, and Meritocracy in Silicon Valley
When Vivek Wadhwa founded a tech company, he was advised by fellow Indian Americans to have a white “front man” to pitch company to venture capitalists. Moving to academia in an attempt to slow down from the hectic tech business world, one of his studies found that in 2005, 52.4% of Silicon Valley startups were founded by immigrants from all over the world. Is Silicon Valley a place of pure meritocracy, where people from anywhere [...] Continue »
Is Filipino Cuisine Poised To Make It Into The American Mainstream?
Whenever I see an article like this titled “Filipino Cuisine Poised to Break through Gastro Ceiling,” I think “yet again?” Over twenty years, I ate at Cafe Glenda on Solano Avenue in Berkeley and thought, “Has Filipino food finally made it?” Efren wrote about Filipino Food becoming the In Thing four years ago. A few years later came a discussion on how and why Filipino food was unassimilated. So what’s new and different this time?
2012 Growing up Asian in American Art and Essay Contest: Bridges
Every year, the Asian Pacific Fund hosts an art and essay contest on Growing up Asian in American. 2012′s theme, in honor of the Golden Gate bridge’s 75th anniversary, is bridges. San Francisco Bay Area students from Kindergarten through the 12th grade can submit essays, poems, or artwork concerning this theme and are eligible for $27,000 in prizes. Winning submissions will be displayed at special exhibits hosted at more than 50 public libraries in the [...] Continue »
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s Protest Background Raises Dilemma
Jean Quan faced a tough first year as the mayor of Oakland after her controversial handling of the Occupy movement. From the New York Times: “For Ms. Quan, 62, a longtime civil rights activist and former union organizer whose husband and 29-year-old daughter participated in Occupy protests, the possibility of being undone by youthful demonstrators poses a painful paradox….’My background has made it emotionally harder’ to order police actions against them, she said. “But I’m [...] Continue »
NBA’s Golden State Warriors Waive Jeremy Lin, Picked Up by Houston Rockets!
With the delayed NBA season to start this Christmas, NBA teams have begun to re-shuffle their rosters in preparation for the shortened season. Unfortunately, this includes the San Francisco Bay Area’s Golden State Warriors waiving Jeremy Lin for their team roster: Lin’s release from the team is no big surprise. Despite the short-handed roster at camp, affordable contract, and great support from the local fan community, Lin’s release is directly related to the teams efforts [...] Continue »
San Francisco’s Chinese Historical Society of America Offers Free Admissions In December
I’ve visited the Chinese Historical Society of America museum once in San Francisco a year or so ago in Chinatown and was surprised that I had not visited it before in my 10+ years of living in the Bay Area before. I learned recently that general admissions to the museum ifs now free (courtesy of sponsor by PG&E) through December in honor of their 10th year anniversary at their current location: The Chinese Historical Society [...] Continue »
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