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What if Jeremy Lin Weren’t Asian?
As with most people, I don’t remember much of my early childhood; I emigrated to the State from Taiwan when I was 5 years old and the only relevant and vivid memories I have from my time on the Formosan island was sitting 2 feet away from a sizable television watching Michael Jordan win his first championships. I still have the Bulls snap-back from back then; the logo is faded and the brim is bent, [...] Continue »
Jason Wu’s Target Collection Debuts With Super Bowl XLVI
By Joni This past Sunday, women (and some men, I suppose) all over the nation put their big game strategies in motion. Noooo, I’m not talking about football. Football is a walk in the park compared to what some people went through in order to score pieces from Jason Wu’s highly anticipated collection for Target stores. Wu, a high end fashion designer, created a 53 piece collection for Target which consists of fun dresses, skirts, [...] Continue »
Pete Hoekstra’s Offensive Anti-Asian Super Bowl Ad
It seems like the new Super Bowl tradition of late is airing commercials which are racist, offensive, or at least racially insensitive toward Asians. In 2008, it was a set of offensive SalesGenie.com ads (written by an Asian, no less). 2010 gave us the Doritos Samurai Guy (who didn’t know the ways of the Samurai). Last year, Timothy Hutton using the plight of Tibet as a punchline for Groupon’s deals on fish curry, not even [...] Continue »
Jeremy Lin Shows He’s Just What The Knicks Need
Jeremy Lin’s moment is here. On Saturday, he led the Knicks to victory against the Nets by scoring 25 points, grabbing 5 rebounds, and dishing out 7 assists. Lin, who hasn’t received much playing time in the NBA, scored 12 points in the fourth quarter alone and catapulted the Knicks to victory. This is especially exciting news for Lin fans. I’ve been following him ever since his senior year at Harvard, when he put up [...] Continue »
Michelle Kwan Inducted Into Figure Skating Hall of Fame
Michelle Kwan honored at the U.S. Championships during a break in the women’s competition Saturday, January 28th evening. Last week to no one’s surprise, figure skater Michelle Kwan was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in San Jose, California: “Kwan was the face of figure skating for a decade, beloved as much for her grace and humility in defeat as her long list of triumphs. Though she won five world and nine [...] Continue »
Footballer Loses Spot at Georgia Over Immigration Issue
Here’s a sad story out of Georgia. By all accounts, Chester Brown, a current high school senior, loves the University of Georgia football program. Really loves. He had the date he verbally committed to the school tatooed on his arm. But Brown, the son of Samoan immigrants, won’t be going. Unfortunately, he got caught up in a controversial immigration policy at UGA which states that undocumented students can’t be admitted over a legal resident if [...] Continue »
TMZ Asks Apolo Anton Ohno, “Who is the Best Asian-American Athlete?”
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player A TMZ cameraman stalked Apolo Ohno while he was leaving the gym and asked, “Who is the best Asian-American[sic] athlete?” The TMZ staff tries to answer this question, as well. Not surprisingly, the TMZ staff was stumped by the question, but who did Apolo give as his answer? What are your thoughts on the question or this video?
Asian American Commercial Watch: Southwest Airlines’ “Celebration”
I was watching the New England Patriots pummel the Denver Broncos this past Saturday and saw this commercial. I’m a fair weather Patriots fan, having grown up in Western Massachusetts. I remember as a teen when the Patriots lost to the Chicago Bears as well as the Boston Red Sox lose to the New York Mets in the World Series. So it’s a quite the juxtapose how Massachusetts teams are doing so well in this [...] 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 »
Nam Phan Meets Jim Hettes On UFC 141 Main Fight Card
Nam Phan has once again made it onto the main card of a UFC event, this time facing submission expert Jim Hettes at UFC 141. Following his rematch against Leonard Garcia, a Phan win could make him not just an entertaining fighter but a featherweight contender. He has a tough job ahead of him with jujitsu black belt Hettes, who brings in a 9-0 record. UFC 141 takes place on December 30, 2011, with Phan’s [...] Continue »
Jeremy Lin Off to the New York Knicks
Well, NBA basketball player Jeremy Lin didn’t have much time to settle down at the Houston Rockets. He’s already been traded to the New York Knicks: The New York Knicks have claimed guard Jeremy Lin off waivers to fill a void at backup point guard. Lin was released Sunday by the Rockets to make roster room for Houston’s signing of Samuel Dalembert. … The Knicks, who last week claimed sharpshooter Steve Novak off waivers, needed [...] Continue »
The 8Asians Talk About: Yu Darvish and Japanese Baseball Players
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 Yu Darvish, the half-Japanese, half-Iranian pitching phenom, while other people stand around politely and think to themselves when the next season of American Idol will come out since they know nothing about baseball. [...] Continue »
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