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Street Food in a Restaurant Setting
Not too long ago I came across a job posting on Craigslist for a hot dog vendor. It was tempting not to email the poster asking about the perks of the jobs, such as the daily limit of hot dogs I could eat.
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Kamehameha Schools Seek Justice
More than 400 supporters of Hawai‘i’s Kamehameha Schools rallied in UN Plaza on Saturday to protest the recent 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against the schools’ Native Hawaiian-preferred admissions policy.
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FFVII Fans Turning Blue
For the past year, fans of the hit video game Final Fantasy VII have been holding their breaths for the September 14, 2005 DVD release of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, set two years after the story in the original role-playing video game.
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Armani Chowing with Aple and Robin
Black Eyed Peas’ lead vocalist Aple.de.Ap and local Robin Williams apparently share a love for Giorgio Armani –– but for the food! They brunched at San Francisco’s luxe Armani Café at Market St. and Grant Ave. after wrapping
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Respect Our Dead, and Living
To meet a growing demand in Minnesota, St. Paul’s mayor and Hmong Americans partnered to design and build the first funeral home for Hmong burial services last year. Last month, Pennsylvania residents honored Chinese
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WWII Veteran from Calif. receives Military Honor
LINCOLN, Neb. –– Ben Kuroki of Camarillo, Calif., believed to be the only Japanese American to have flown over Japan during World War II was awarded the -
Police Role Disputed in Korean Deaths
The Korean American Association of SF & Greater Bay Area (KAASF) and the Korean Community Center of the East Bay (KCCEB) are organizing the Korean community
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Japan’s JTB teams with U.S. to Sell Trips around Moon
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N.Y. Mayor Cuts Down on Chinese Cuisine
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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.
Jammer on Not-So-Funny Funny Asian
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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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