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Author Archives: Jeff
Learning to Love Asian Men by Leaving the US
“So, before moving to Korea, why did I not realize the potential in Asian men? Because for the first 21 years of my life, the United States had deceived me.” With so much focus on how men fetishize Asian women, … Continue reading
Manny Pacquiao at Seventeen
Manny Pacquiao might be currently be the world’s most famous Filipino, but before he could train with well known trainers like Freddie Roach (shown here to the left), he was an unknown skinny 17 year old who had run away … Continue reading
Abercrombie & Fitch Sales Decline: How Disrespecting Diversity can be Bad for Business
After managing to alienate significant numbers of Asians, Asian Americans, Muslims, African Americans, Hispanics, overweight, and disabled people, Abercrombie & Fitch has found – surprise – that declining sales forced it into a quarterly loss. In an attempt to regain … Continue reading
Dealing with Diversity: Gap responds to the Racist Defacement of an Ad
Arsalan Iftikhar, senior editor at The Islamic Monthly, posted a picture of this defaced Gap advertisement on his twitter account. This ad featured Sikh-American designer Waris Ahluwalia and model/filmmaker Quentin Jones. What, if anything, would the Gap do?
Posted in Business, Discrimination, Fashion, Lifestyles, Religion
Tagged Arsalan Iftikhar, Gap, Quentin Jones, Waris Ahluwalia
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Remembering Asian American Veterans: Stories from the Library of Congress Veterans History Project
“I could not believe I was coming home to the same reception I received twenty-three years before, following World War II. This time I was not the enemy, but I was there saving lives, perhaps their loved ones.” Carolyn Hisako … Continue reading
Jon M. Chu Makes Airline Safety Videos Actually Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtyfiPIHsIg As someone who flies almost every month, I usually tune out the safety talk, with the aim of being asleep before the airplane takes off. This flight safety video that Jon Chu made for Virgin America is one that … Continue reading
Asian Americans in College Sports
When I was an undergraduate, I remember meeting a few Asian American (a grand total of four) at my school who competed in collegiate sports like cross country, volleyball, and field hockey. While I was researching Asian American cross country … Continue reading
Cross Country: An Ideal Asian American Youth Sport?
While I have seen many heavily Asian American teams at high school cross country meets, one thing that I have recently began to notice is that increasingly, some of the winners are Asian Americans. After seeing this interview with runner … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Lifestyles, Sports
Tagged Cameron Tu, cross country running, Rajpaul Pannu, running, youth sports
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Chinese Buyers Purchasing “Bargain” Million Dollar Bay Area Homes
When this article about Asian buyers making cash offers on million plus dollar Bay Area homes circulated on the internal 8asians mailing list, one of our writers lamented that Chinese investors making cash offers were frustrating her home purchase efforts, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Local, Real Estate, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged bidding, Cash offers, housing
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Pacific Islander Students struggle under the AAPI umbrella
The umbrella term AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) is a broad one that catches many under the model minority stereotype that comes with it, even while some, like many Pacific Islanders, are struggling for success. Pacific Islanders (PI), those people … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Education
Tagged Chamorro, Guam, Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Samoans, Tongan
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Where White means Mediocre: High-Skilled Asian Immigrant Enclaves
“Are you taking AP [Advanced Placement] courses?” “Oh no, I’m white.” – Conversation overhead by a teacher in Cupertino. Stanford sociologist Tomás Jiménez has been studying immigrants and the communities they live in, and he recently published what he found … Continue reading