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Lessons From Virginia Tech
Culturally competent mental health services are essential
Like all Americans, we continue to mourn the senseless tragedy at Virginia Tech a little over one year ago. It hits home for us because our agency, Asian American Recovery Services Inc., is dedicated to serving individuals with mental health and/or substance abuse problems, like Cho Seung-Hui. -
An Asian Texan History?: How now, cowboy?
I’m a Texan through and through.
I was born in Bryan, Texas, at the only hospital in Bryan-College Station. I was immediately labeled “white” on my birth certificate. In high school, I became black, and later I became yet other things (the inspiration for my story collection, How I Became a Black Man and Other […] -
Barack-ing the Racial Divide: What the Media Pundits Missed
Finally, the dust is settling over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy, thanks to Sen. Barack Obama’s forthright speech on race in America. In the mainstream media, pundits have generally given the presentation a positive spin.
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My People’s History
Everything I learned about Asian Americans in my K-12 education can be summed up in one sentence: Chinese laborers built one half of the Transcontinental Railroad. I accepted that that was all there was. Here it was, my people’s greatest and sole contribution to the country: getting exploited.
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The Real Reason For The Tibet Protests
XIAHE, China, New American Media — As Tibetan horsemen charge like fiery embers over withered grass to attack a Chinese government outpost, the Dalai Lama and the Beijing government point fingers of blame for the firestorm sweeping the Tibetan Plateau. Far from these vast
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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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How I Came To Accept My Adoption
When celebrities like Madonna and Angelina Jolie adopted their children from other countries, transnational and interracial adoption became instant buzzwords around the world. Suddenly the concept of the only family structure I had ever known — having been adopted as an infant — was
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Fighting the War On Homework
For a moment, let’s pretend to be an elementary school teacher. You earn a salary low enough to afford maybe one or two meals at McDonald’s once a month; you have volumes of paperwork to fill out to satisfy your school’s bureaucratic systems and local, state and federal
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Defending Civil Rights Must Include Everyone’s Rights
At a recent event in my community, an elderly Chinese lady came up to me and was very concerned with what she had heard in her church. She wanted to know if it was true that the state was about to implement a law that would force girls and boys to share bathrooms in schools […]
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Wow! This is wonderful. Talk about "model" "minorities"! Art Hu, where the Hell are you when we need you most? Randy, I hope you are simply being worldly and wise when you equate your 150G annual income with parity with the movers and shakers.
Frank Eng on Why I’m Voting For Clinton
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OMG!!! chris gatdula is so freaken hott nd phil tayag is one fine man lol, man i would love to meet them.
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Obama wouldn't work with 80-20 specifically because he doesn't sell himself out to interest groups. I don't blame 80-20 for trying to increase asian influence by forming a voting block.
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Ace: Point taken. Agree almost totally. But I think Dong was "reporting" or "reflecting" the common "American" perceptions in this current Sinophobia campaign.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Frank Eng, Are you illiterate? I didn't say that Dong's *warning* to Asian America was paranoid and unwarranted.
Ace on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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instead of being a comurep, you turn yourself into a demirep! two words: ron jeremy or vivid videos, that'll solved all problems.
cl on Open and Closed
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Rob: Please don't advocate sending Mr. Tran anywhere other than his own safe home and environs. Just let him stew in his own "juices" of belief systems and self-righteousness.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Dear Ace: Hope you are correct in assuming Roger S. Dong's "warning" is paranoid and unwarranted. But, you yourself are the one who posited the century-long "irrational, racist, and xenojphobic fears commonly perpetuated in western media.
Frank Eng on Is the backlash here yet?: Chinese Americans — and all Asian Americans — Should Be Ready
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Financially speaking, I'm not that worred about this guy. But emotionally, yes, I think that this guy isn't doing that well.
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Dear Grace Tzeng: Your account of your encounter with two unmanly bigots is more than worthy of your 4'10" frame, and ALL self-respecting and decent human beings should applaud you for your courage.
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