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Daily Dose: 03/31/08
» Skyline Guard Blossoms
» Philippine Foreign Service Examinations Start May 4
» Yankees’ Matsui Gets Married, Pulls Fast One on Jeter and Abreu
» Cambodian ‘Killing Fields’ Survivor Dith Pran Dies
» New York Assemblywoman Organizes Book Drive for National Library Week
» Japan’s Soul Food Debuts in U.S.
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Ten Young Asian American Women Who Will Change the World
Asian Sisters Participating In Reaching Excellence, or ASPIRE, will be honoring an Asian American woman in high school or college for her exceptional contributions to the community. The winner will be announced at the 2008 Asian American Women In Leadership Conference at Simmons College, Mass., on April 26.
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U.S.-Japan IT Venture Summit
More than 200 people attended the 2008 U.S.-Japan IT Venture Summit at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose on March 18.
The first annual venture summit was sponsored by the Japanese External Trade Organization-San Francisco, U.S. -
A World Women Can Call Their Own
When friends Jennifer Bellofatto and Cherry Mendoza wanted to connect with each other from opposite sides of the country, they could not find a social networking Web site for professional women that was free of unwanted MySpace- and Friendster-esque solicitors. Their solution? HerOrbit.com.
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Mining the Home Movie
Why would any serious scholar be interested in home movies? We’ve all seen them. The kids in Cousin Shirley’s backyard pool splashing the puppy. Your best friend’s shots of himself gawking at the camera in front of every monument in Europe.
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Barack Obama’s ‘Model Minority’ Problem
When I called Barack Obama’s race speech “The Liberal Side of Colorblind: Obama’s Post-Affirmative Action Politics,” a reader asked me to clarify what I meant.
Simply put, Obama’s speech marks a clear pivot on the discussion of race in America. When a surging black -
God Is In Our Way
Dear Q,
I’m a white girl dating a really hot Korean guy. We get along really well, laugh a lot and have solid communication skills. The problem is he’s totally Christian. -
Can Internet Babies Coo?
In the physical world, empathy and morality can be influenced and taught by exposing children and adults to situations that emphasize our interconnectedness. The challenge is how to do this on the Internet, where cyber-bullying and harassment are growing problems.
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‘Catwalk’ Girls Work It
SAN FRANCISCO — As the lights dimmed and the bass from the speakers filled the SomArts Gallery, the sold-out crowd rose to their feet in applause as Tita Aida, the self-proclaimed transgender “hostess with the moistest,” made her way down the 60-foot-long runway to kick off the
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Asian Nights: 03/28/08
Friday, March 28
Genesis Fridays: ‘Flirts and Skirts’
Details: Rouge Nightclub,
1500 Broadway St., San Francisco, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., 21+
Music: Hip-hop
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‘Tekkonkinkreet’
A new spin on yin-yang
Yin and yang, day and night, the balance of opposites — this idea has been so overused that it has become an eye-rolling cliche in modern media expressions, despite its profound and ancient roots.
However, Michael Arias’ adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s graphic novel Black and White into a feature-length anime film called […] -
Daily Dose: 03/28/08
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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.
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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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