Facebook Kills Real Life, Then Dies

The digital camera boom probably owes much to the fact ...

Of Time and Fat

Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays ...

Connecting with Other Asian Americans

Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian ...

Time to Get a New Mirror

Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of ...

Discarding Social Conditioning

You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a ...

Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)

A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a ...

The World Has Tiger by the Tale

You don't become a Tiger Woods without an indomitable will. ...

The Asian-American and Music

I thought I would write a little bit about my ...

Tiger's Hard Rocky Road to Redemption

As long as your heart is beating the road to ...

South Philly High Back In The News

Okay, not the mainstream news, but the race-aware and Asian-American ...

Remembering Christmas After a Breakup

Breakups hurt. It’s been well-documented. And sadly, all the clichés ...

Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show

It looks like I was a little early to jump ...

Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song

In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember ...

Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling

A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting ...

Experiencing The Generational Rift Firsthand

I recently took up a temp job as a favor ...

Sexualizing Homosexuality

I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los ...

My Favorite Part of Thanksgiving

I grew up in a primarily White neighborhood so I ...

Love Knows No Boundaries

I was going to write about the upcoming holiday season ...

An Asian American Thanksgiving

We have a long weekend to stuff ourselves and sit ...

The Meteoric Rise of John Cho

Last week, the bluray version of Star Trek came out. ...

Jeremy Lin: A Cut Above the Stereotype

The sports world was abuzz last week with the ridiculous ...

Rushed by Christmas Amid Lingering Halloween

Christmas is officially in the house. Or in the Walmart ...

Manny Pacquiao Being Manny Pacquiao

I've recently become interested in boxing. I know, a timely ...

Fellatio, Fong and Questions 27 and 28

Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women

Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell ...

10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans

After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've ...

Spotting Race Bores

Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down ...

Sacred Sexuality

Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just ...

Thoughts for Sleepless Nights

They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? ...

Asian American Woman's Burden

By the age of ten I could picture my future ...

What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say

Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden ...

Basketball Is Serious Business In China

Asian American Man to Man

Big American Misconceptions About Asians

We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west ...

Women Without Men

The China Dilemma

Untying the Gordian Knot of North Korea

New UC Admission Policy Change May Be Good for Asian ...

Obama, China and an Emerging New Reality

Asian American Life 36 Years Later

Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at ...

What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans

We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm ...

The Lou Jing Ripple Effect

What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has ...

Asian Men and Interracial Dating

When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, ...

Why I Love Los Angeles

I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I ...

The Race Factor in Asian American Life

An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to ...

The End of Cars As We Know Them

I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I ...

Rising Asian American Stars

The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, ...

The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents

Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for ...

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity