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 ...

Big Ups to Disney's 'Up'!

Pixar has the uncanny ability to strike gold with everything ...

Obama Plays His Asia Card

To the rest of the world Barack Obama represents the ...

Change That Means Something to Real Americans

Last Saturday the word Obama and so many Americans have ...

Drawing Life's Key Lesson from Into The Wild

A couple friends and I have gotten together on a ...

Season-Ending Notes: Asian Baseball Players in the News!

Baseball season has ended but there are still a couple ...

Asian Men and White Women: Missed Signals

The rap about us Asian guys is that white chicks ...

The Meteoric Rise of John Cho

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

Halloween Identity Crises and Slutty Witches

With Halloween around the corner, I asked my little brother ...

My Sassy Girl Lost in Hollywood's Translation

There's an idea that some of us subconsciously subscribe to ...

Education Reforms Aint the Key to American Prosperity

For some time now there's been a kind of national ...

Asian Establishment in Top American Cities

From New York to Los Angeles, Seattle to Houston, a ...

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 ...

Remembering Christmas After a Breakup

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

American Clothes Make American Bodies

Some have blamed American fast food for the obesity epidemic. ...

Seafood Soiree: A Night at The Boiling Crab

A restaurant that my people have been raving about the ...

California's Asian-Majority Generation

In about two dozen U.S. cities a generation of Asian ...

Asian Las Vegas Pilgrimage

How many times have I vowed never to return to ...

France Nuyen and Vietnamese Identity

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 ...

Discarding Social Conditioning

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

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 ...

The World Has Tiger by the Tale

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

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 ...

Basketball Is Serious Business In China

Asian American Man to Man

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 ...

Confessions of a Happy Asian American

Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of ...

Fellatio, Fong and Questions 27 and 28

Big American Misconceptions About Asians

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

Women Without Men

The China Dilemma