8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Liberty Mutual Insurance’s ‘First Word | Truth Tellers’
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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Top Three “Happiest” US Cities are Asian American
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Filipino Kinship Terms and their Confusing Translation into English
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Review of Netflix Japan’s “Our Secret Diary”
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Entertainment, TV
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Their Better Halves? Interracial Marriage Among Female Asian American Writers
By Leeland Lee Over the past few decades the canon of the Asian American experience has been built, in large part, from the work of contemporary female writers like Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and Gish Jen. More recent arrivals … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dating, Family, Lifestyles
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The Romance of Magno Rubio Nominated For 5 LA Weekly Theatre Awards
Fil-Am Ako reports that The Romance of Magno Rubio, a play based on a short story by Filipino American writer Carlos Bulosan, has been nominated for 5 LA Weekly Theatre Awards. The play by Lonnie Carter is about is about … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, The Arts
Tagged Bernardo Bernardo, Carlos Bulosan, Jon Jon Briones, PAE Live!, The Romance of Magno Rubio
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“Strangers From A Different Shore” by Ronald Takaki
Why did Asians immigrate to America? How did the model minority myth come about? Why is it that there seem to be more Japanese Americans in Hawaii than other parts of the United States? Whatever your level of APA knowledge, … Continue reading
Posted in Books
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The A-Word: Prison Dancer: The Interactive Web Musical (Part 2)
Prison Dancer: The Interactive Web Musical, the series inspired by the dancing inmates of Cebu, Philippines released their first episode last week and at the time of this post has already hit over 15,000 views. For lovers of musical theatre, … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Music, The A-Word, Viral Like SARS, WTF
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Hidden Wall Safe
We all know criminals aren’t the smartest people on the block, but even the slyest thief would have a hard time finding your valuables in this Hidden Wall Safe ($7.99). This tricky hidey hole is a small and discrete wall … Continue reading
Posted in Shopping
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East West Players Announce Faces of the Future Playwriting Competition Winners
This review was originally posted on Blogging Los Angeles and has been republished here with permission. By Chris The LA-based Asian-American theater group East West Players recently announced winners of their “Faces of the Future” playwriting competition. The competition “explores … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Reviews, Southern California, The Arts
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Racist Jeremy Lin Skit Dims The Mike Brilliant Show
http://youtu.be/yQtFQjtKSj0?t=6m I have to hand it to Alex Tichauer – his Jeremy Lin sketch on the University of Arizona’s “UA Tonight with Mike Brilliant” show manages to touch on almost every negative Asian American stereotype that I can think of. … Continue reading
Chipping at the Walls: Working In Hollywood
By Harrison I grew up Chinese-Canadian in the 1970s. This was not the Canada you might think of – liberal, progressive, gay marriage and legal pot. It was still very proudly a member of the British Commonwealth, where racism was … Continue reading
Posted in Entertainment, Movies, Observations
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Hibiska T-Shirt
When people described the hibiscus as a trumpet flower, they didn’t really mean it. Some people take things a little too literally though, resulting in this Hibiska T-shirt ($23.52). Acting on the pun, it combines two things that are common … Continue reading
Posted in Apparel, Music
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Australia’s New Identity Check Laws Force Muslim Women To Show Faces
Following from a previous article I wrote on the viability of Asian Muslims to assimilate into Western Scoiety, a new development for Muslim women has occurred in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Legislation has been passed to make … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Discrimination, Politics
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Remembering the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami One Year Later
One year ago, on March 11, 2011, the world was shaken by news of the devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan causing massive damage to homes, nuclear plants, livelihoods. I remember being at school, in the bubble … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
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