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Nation, APAs In Sync ‘06
APAs in tune with the nation: According to Newsweek magazine, nationwide statistics showed APA voters leaned democratic, but less so than any other racial minority.
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Drug War in C-Town
The old photograph depicting a street scene of cops, a pile of drugs and a crowd of Chinese onlookers had hung on the walls of the San Francisco Police Academy for years. Old-time Chinatown residents used to tell stories of a public destruction of opium in the middle of Chinatown in the early 1900s.
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Heroic Filipina Honored in Hit-and-Run Case
This past August after a SUV hit-and-run spree left one dead and 18 injured, Filipina nurse Grace Lopez demonstrated remarkable leadership in the emergency department of San Francisco General Hospital.
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Air China Goes Full ‘Boar’ in Coming Lunar New Year
Air China started its China-U.S. route in 1981, but now is exploiting opportunities in the booming China business trade in advance of the Lunar New Year of the Boar. As general manager, Air China Los Angeles Zihang Chi announced, “We are totally committed to the U.S.-China market. Our CEO has stated that he who prevails […]
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The Year in Review: the Good, the Bad & the Tasteless
BEST 10 TIDBITS
1. The line starts here: Keanu Reeves announces in June that he’s ready to wed.
2. Rejected: Vanessa Minnillo nixes Nick Lachey’s marriage proposal, possibly ruining only chance for A-list fame via speedy divorce and reality show à la Jessica Simpson. -
Transporter Room, Millions to Beam
Asian Pacific Americans have traveled far and wide — whether it’s television’s reality show star Yul Kwon, or NASA shuttle astronauts Sunita Williams and Mark Polansky. APAs made well over 33 million person-trips in 2002 and spent 13 percent more than the average traveler, according to The Minority Traveler. Two out of five trips were […]
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Hu’s on First
OK, so I’ve been catching up on my videos and books, but it’s not too late to add some fresh perspectives:
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The Hapa Whole in One
I went to Kip Fulbeck’s show “part asian, 100% hapa” at the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.
“Hapa” was originally a derogatory term derived from the Hawaiian word for “half.” The word has been reclaimed as a term of pride by those whose mixed-race heritage includes Asian or Pacific Rim ancestry. The show […] -
Letters to the Editor
Keep the Heat On, Yvonne
I caught some of ABC’s The View, and I watched in horror as Rosie O’Donnell (”Racist Ring Around the Rosie Tightens,” Dec. 22) made a blatant racist joke about the Chinese language on the air. I wrote an angry e-mail to ABC, but I doubt they will do anything about it. […] -
CAAEN Inspires With Can-Do Attitude
SAN FRANCISCO — Bolstered by three years of providing corporate networking opportunities and civic service, the rapidly growing Corporate Asian American Employee Network, (CAAEN), recently announced the establishment of a one-of-a-kind leadership development/training program for Asian Americans who work in corporate America.
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Rewarding Scholars for Restaurant Values
There has been enough focus on war, disease, lies and failures in 2006. Let’s end the year focusing on a touching and inspirational story: the creation of the Shui Kuen and Allen Chin (SKAC) Foundation, and its first scholarship to help Asian Pacific American restaurant workers and their children.
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Curious Georges
BAD, GOOD & CURIOUS GEORGES: Intriguing that defeated republican U.S. Senator George Allen — whose labeling of Virginia’s S.R. Sidrath as a “macaca” started his political death spiral — was present at Pres. George Bush’s Dec. 18 White House signing ceremony of HR 5682, the U.S.-India Peace Atomic Energy Cooperation Act.
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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.
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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.
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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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