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English Proficiency Impacts Cancer Screening for APAs
Despite the fact that cancer is the second leading cause of death in California and the United States, second only to heart disease, Asian Pacific Americans consistently trail other racial and ethnic groups in cancer screening, especially for cervical and breast cancer, according to a new study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
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KTSF Hopes to ‘Stir’ Young APA Viewers
Sporting blue-streaked hair and a ripped pink mesh shirt, Jeannie Mai sat in the conference room of a TV station that broadcasts mostly Asian-American programing and confessed.
She couldn’t relate to their “old school” Vietnamese news program, even if her grandmother adored it. -
‘Last Samurai’: A regurgitation of ‘The Seven Samurai’
The Last Samurai is a wannabe from the get-go. It’s a sometimes likable pretender to Braveheart in a kimono rather than a kilt. The story line boldfaces its cross-cultural intentions by setting the story in Japan’s Meiji period, when the country began opening its ports to foreigners and modernity, and stresses the similarities between […]
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Better With Time: The Velveteen Rabbit
Combine a timeless children’s story with innovative choreography, whimsical sets and lively dancing — and there you have it, a holiday classic.
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Military Pulls Out Top Secret Card in Yee Case
The military postponed the Dec. 2 public hearing for Army Capt. James Yee, the Chinese American Muslim chaplain recently released from the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C.
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Matt Gonzalez and the Politics of ‘Race’
The San Francisco mayoral election to be held on Dec. 9 features a conservative Democrat against a member of the Green Party. After sorting through all of the campaign rhetoric and posturing, it is clear to me that Matt Gonzalez, the Green candidate, is the better choice to represent the interests of Asian Pacific Americans […]
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UpFront News Briefs
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“Mrs. Mink would turn over twice if she found out I left the U.S. House [without voting]. … She would have not forgiven me for missing the vote.”
—The late Rep. Patsy Mink’s successor, Ed Case, told the Maui News that he nearly missed the Nov. 24 dedication of the Patsy Takemoto Mink Post Office […] -
Did Racism beat Jindal?
Analysts don’t like it. Pollsters aren’t keen on it. Strategic mistakes, they say, were the key to Bobby Jindal’s loss to Kathleen Blanco in the Louisiana governor’s race.
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Admissions Suit Ends in Settlement
A blond 12-year-old and his mother have agreed to drop their lawsuit challenging the exclusive Kamehameha Schools’ Hawaiians-only admissions policy in exchange for the boy being allowed to stay at the school until he graduates.
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More than ‘The Cat in the Hat’: Dr. Seuss drew anti-Japanese political cartoons
To many Americans, Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, is the beloved children’s book author, who penned such classics as The Lorax, Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat.
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Amy Hill’s Hollywood Shuffle
One of the best known Asian Pacific American actresses in Hollywood, Amy Hill, stars in The Cat in the Hat as the snoozy babysitter, Mrs. Kwan. She talked to AsianWeek about the role, her work and life behind the scenes.
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Onimusha Overture
Onimusha Tactics carries on in the tradition of Tactics Ogre and the recent Final Fantasy Tactics for the GameBoy Advance. Fight through a series of small battles, controlling up to 8 characters chosen from a hearty band of available warriors: Slicing swordsmen, spear-wielding troops, arrow-launching bowmaidens, knife throwing ninjas and axe-wielding barbarians are all at […]
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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.
Frank Eng on Political Jiujitsu - Obama & Biden, McCain & Palin
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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.
Frank Eng on Why Asians Speak English
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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.
Paul Corbero on Spanish Olympians - More Controversial Photos Uncovered
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Because there are more non native speaking english than native, we are publishing http://www.audioster.
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