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The Ties That Bind
Editor’s Note: The following essay received third place in the annual Growing Up Asian in America contest.
Like many Silicon Valley companies these days, my family is going through some drastic downsizing of our own. With Grandma retiring abroad and Great-grandmother returning to her homeland “waiting to die,” my support system pretty much goes up in […] -
A Parent’s Fight Against S.F. Schools
The San Francisco Unified School District’s diversity index lottery procedure — a method of assigning students to schools based upon socioeconomic status, test scores, mother’s education, language status and prior school ranking — is supposed to benefit students regardless of their race. However, many parents and students find that Asian Pacific American students are the […]
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“I don’t even move off the stool … It’s a totally different thing going on for me — a totally different muscle to exercise.”
— Actress Kelly Hu flexing her assets in the The Vagina Monologues as opposed to the rigorous role of villainess “Lady Deathstrike” in X2: X-Men United. -
First Chinese American Woman Flier Killed in WWII: Hazel Ying Lee volunteered for Chinese and American air forces
Frances Tong isn’t sure why she kept the letter from her older sister for all these years. In the letter, now brown with age, a young and fearless Hazel Ying Lee asks about family members and talks about the dangers of her job of ferrying fighter planes to North American airfields during World War II.
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Anchor’s Away: Kent Ninomiya talks about his future in Minneapolis
Move over Connie Chung, Kent Ninomiya has arrived. Ninomiya, 36, has been named co-anchor of Channel 15 news in Minneapolis, Minn., a promotion many journalists say will pave the way for other Asian Pacific American males to break into broadcasting.
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Philippines President Affirms New U.S. Alliance: Arroyo ends state visit in San Francisco
Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said last Thursday in San Francisco that she came to the United States to affirm a partnership, not to collect $4 billion from the United States in gratitude for supporting the Iraq War.
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Letters to the Editor
Chronicle Biased for S.F. Superintendent
DEAR EDITOR: I am writing in response to the San Francisco Chronicle’s recent articles appearing on May 1 and 20, regarding San Francisco Unified School Districtís assignment plan, based on the diversity index. -
Donors Should Question CAA
Chinese for Affirmative Action’s board of directors missed the entire point after finally ending 11 paralyzing months of debate to rename itself Coalition for Asian American Advocacy. On May 13, the board compromised, retaining the 34-year-old revered name of Chinese for Affirmative Action, while pledging to setup an offshoot called the Coalition for Asian American […]
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Ka-Ching! Hawai‘i Striker Scores Big
In an amazing six-week stretch, Brian Ching has reached the top of the United States soccer ladder. The Honolulu kid who still loves to surf made his debut with Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes in April of this year. His size, (6′1″, 195 pounds) strength and scoring ability at forward brought him to the […]
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To educator - I agree with you that it is possible to make insulting depictions of others intentionally.
Paul Corbero on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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There is a difference between a love relationship and a sexual relationship. A love relationship is when you get married and begin a family.
Noorie Lal on Committed Relationship, Unprotected Sex
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Oh, and furthermore . . . Speaking of "symphonies," orchestras that is, in my time and my dad as an inkstained wretch, Americans were still servile to the European models, and there was much fussing' and feudin' over whether the L.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Oy! Aiyahhhh!! or Eeeeee!!! . . . as a character in "Taipan" mightk say . . . Doubles stabdards in "western" perceptions? In sexual mores? In self-anointing sanctities? Ia the Pope "Catholic"? Does he wear Prada? Do Oscars have genitals? Does anyone care? Other than Bette, that is.
Frank Eng on Sydney Orchestra "Synched" 2000 Olympics Performance (too)
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Dear pswing: Once more we meet in the shadows ot journalistic boonies here online. Political jiu-jitsu? I think Machiavelli was there first, or was it Tsun-tzu? Never mind, nothing's "original.
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Dear pswing: Thank God it's "English" only hereabnuts. Were it any other tongue or script, I would have been renting a ricksha and hard put to haul that dumb tourist around Chinatown.
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Bill C: "Popping out babies"> Aren't you oversimplifying a bit? And wouldn't THAT "problem" be more or less solved if the judgmentall authorities handed out condoms to sexually active children, in the ghettos especially, where they have scant opportunity, much less idea, of anything better? Like condescenion AND oppression? Reminds me of that pharmaceutical now promoting, nay, demanding, of society that ALL pubertal girls be "immunized," at 60 bucks a pop, in our "public" schools.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Some Questions to all Spaniards and others who went through the Spanish education system from elementary school to high school as I am trying my best to understand that doing the slant eye gesture is not offensive or hurtful to Asians in Spain.
educator on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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It is difficult to associate specific countries by physical markers, so stereotypical dressing and activities is more common If the Olympics where in a Scandinavian country would we interpret a photo of players wearing helmets with horns and blond hair as insulting or as a players posing as honorary Vikings? If the Olympics where in Ireland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in green and blond hair as an insulting or as a players posing as honorary Irish? If the Olympics where in Scotland would we interpret a photo of players dressed in kilts and holding wind pipes as insulting or as players posing a honorary Scotch? If the Olympics where in Germany would we interpret a photo of players wearing lederhosen and Birkenstock sandals as insulting or as players posing as honorary German? If the Olympics where in India would we interpret a photo of players wearing a turban as insulting or as players posing as honorary Indians? If the Olympics where in Spain would we interpret a photo of players dressed in bullfighter garb insulting or as players posing as honorary Spaniards? If the Olympics where in U.
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