Looking for gifts for my nephews, I found a few toys that brought up some much deeper questions about geopolitical change.
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Author William Poy Lee is trying to get some respect for the Toisan Chinese dialect by setting it to music.
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Google the word "hapa" and more than 1.5 million hits come up. Hapa is borrowed from Hawaiian and widely used to describe mixed-race Asian Americans. But some Native Hawaiians are offended by this appropriation.
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There’s nothing like a little modern-day slavery to get the presses hot and bothered.
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Through the years I've been trying to perfect my comeback. You know, when you're walking down the street, minding your own goddamn business, and some asshole decides to add some heinous, unsolicited commentary to the soundtrack of your life. And then you have a few precious moments of reaction to turn the table of power, to slip your razor-sharp verbal wit and make the offender realize their own fundamental asshole-ness.
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Asian Americans, Latinos and African Americans have a deep mistrust of each other and engage in significant stereotyping, a poll found, but a majority of those surveyed said they should put aside differences.
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David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face opened this week at New York City’s Public Theater and reviews are in – saying the play is provocative and smart.
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Here's an interview with Season Three Top Chef Hung Huynh.
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Mill Valley resident Veronica "Nikki" Ruiz has been missing since last Monday, but even after police called off their search, family, friends and volunteers continue to hit the trails of Mount Tamalpais.
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Indian American Columbia University student Arun Wiita is suing the New York City Police Department for arresting him for taking photographs of the subway.
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The news of girls kicking ass and taking names at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology was all over the news last week.
Isha Jain (right) and her research partner, Professor Kathy Iovine.
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Continue reading "Link Time: Undoing, Bill Sorro, Ask a Filipino"
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There was a bizarre story in the New York Post about accused murderer Stephen Sakai who "testified in his own defense -- affecting a fake Asian accent and claiming to have flown to the Far East on a private jet for martial arts competitions."
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The search is on to find the actor to play the lead in a movie based on the old TV series, Kung Fu.
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San Francisco's own From Monument to Masses rocked the Bottom of the Hill on Saturday night, previewing some new material before they head into the recording studio for their follow-up to their 2005 album, Schools of Thought Contend.
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