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‘Harold and Kumar’ Breaks With Charlie Chan, Fu Manchu and Ming the Merciless: John Cho and Kal Penn overturn Hollywood stereotypes of APA men
“My first professional audition was for a commercial,” remembers Kal Penn. “I walk in the room and the casting director asked me where my turban was.” Caught off guard, the Indian American actor tried to explain that not all Indians wear turbans, but the casting director wasn’t hearing any of it. She straight away asked […]
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New and Notable Books
BEING JAPANESE AMERICAN: A JA SOURCEBOOK FOR NIKKEI, HAPA … & THEIR FRIENDS
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Chi Catcher: Drummer Wang Wei Thunders On
Chinese percussionist Wang Wei walks like a serene, laughing Buddha, but at 34, he is changing the face of Chinese percussion in America.
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Filipinos Back Withdrawal in the Name of Peace: President Arroyo saves hostage and protects 8 million overseas workers
Bay Area Filipinos gathered outside the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco on July 19, vigorously rejecting accusations of premature capitulation, and speaking out for the safety of overseas Filipino laborers and withdrawal from Iraq.
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All Locked Up
San Francisco Bay Area insurance magnate and Asian American Donor Program founder Jonathan Leong has paper grandson roots to Locke’s late Jone Ho Leong, which makes her sons — Dan and Everett Leong — Jonathan’s paper uncles.… Anyway, back on July 10, the paper prodigal grandson paused on mid-Main Street in Locke at the old, […]
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Global Briefs
SOUTH KOREAN DEFENSE
U.S. Troops to Pull out of Seoul
WASHINGTON — All U.S. troops based in Seoul will be moved out by December 2008, Pentagon officials announced.
The 8,000 troops will be redeployed to new facilities in Pyongtaek, some 50 miles south. -
Arts Briefs
NURTURE, REGENERATE AND CELEBRATE
Hawai‘i in Festival of Pacific Arts
HONOLULU — A 62-member Hawai‘i delegation is in the Pacific Island nation of Palau to participate in the quadrennial 10-day Festival of Pacific Arts. -
Bay Briefs
VOTING RIGHTS
Electronic Voting Re-certified
LOS ANGELES — A coalition of civil rights and community groups, including the Asian Law Alliance and the Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), praised Secretary of State Kevin Shelley’s re-certification of “electronic voting” machines. -
Nation Briefs
CONSTRUCTION DEATH
Clinton, Liu Aid Dead Laborer’s Wife
NEW YORK — Yue Xia Zhang sat to the side of an altar upon which was placed a picture of her dead husband, candles and incense. Mourners bowed before the altar in front of the coffin. -
Sports Briefs
ATHENS 2004
Hapa Stuns Decathlon World Champ
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Bryan Clay had three personal bests last week to upset reigning world champion Tom Pappas at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials on July 17.
Clay grew up in Kaneohe, Hawai‘i, and graduated from Castle High School in 1998. He is the first Hawaiian athlete to qualify […] -
Tamlyn Shames APA Democrats If Bush Isn’t Ousted
What are we … APAs [Asian Pacific Americans]? APIs [Asian Pacific Islanders]? APIAs [Asian Pacific Islander Americans]?” rallied actress and activist Tamlyn Tomita. “Foremost, we are Americans! Shame on us if we don’t kick out the current administration!”
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The Road No Longer Taken: ‘Jap Road’ to be Renamed
Beaumont, Texas, July 19 — Tears streamed down the faces of the Japanese Texans as the announcement was read. The Commissioners Court of Jefferson County had voted 4-1 to take down the name “Jap Road” near Fannett, Texas, at the southeastern tip of the state. A tradition going back nearly a century had ended with […]
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Dear "observer": You are absolutely right about my personal education history, insofar as I was lucky to be one of only three? Chinese-American students at Horace Mann Grade School in San Jose, way back in the mid-'20s, Half-"right" in the ensuing fact I attended Francisco Jr.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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I have a feeling that Christian and Frank Eng went to all-white schools and don't know what it's like for Asians to attend "diverse" schools, so I post a 2005 article: http://www.
Observer on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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As a reader, I feel I have joined the conversation too late to make sense of this, since it's already at the level of polemic.
eric henderson on Arab Americans as Asian?
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"And I understand that those Asian-Americans who do uncritically embrace racist ideas about black people usually glean them from the dominant (i.
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Jammer: You are more than "right." Your experience is, likely, not all that different from ANY suffered at the hands of bullies.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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To experience the unique dancing style of Jabbawockeez is feeling their movement, seeing their vision, laughing, crying, shouting and knowing that there is still hope.
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Well my only viewing of Last Comic Standing was unfortunately seeing Esther Ku say jokes at the expense of Asian men that only a racist would love.
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Well, Christian, even though I acknowledge many of your arguments that I've read in your posts, racism is a two-way street.
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Dear Christian: For I find you "dear," as in "endearing.: And I question not one line in your riposte other than that NO "community," of any stripe, is ever "free" of its lowest common-denominators.
Frank Eng on Where’s the Racism in ‘New Yorker’ Cover?
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Is it LAMEN or RAMEN? ANSWER; it should be spelled in English as LAMEN. see here an EMAIL from a veteran language man, a reporter/editor in NYC: http://www.
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