Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show
It looks like I was a little early to jump on the bandwagon for the Jeremy Lin show because this kid is blowing up big ...
Perspectives
Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song
In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember those special people who give meaning to our lives but are too modest to take ...
Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling
A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting in Pennsylvania suggested legalizing non-violent crimes like prostitution, drug sales
What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say
Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden child of her family – stealthily encroached forbidden territory. She got a tattoo. On that ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women
Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell you -- Your nutty insecurities make you do things that are highly embarrassing not only ...
10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans
After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've arrived! You're behind a walnut desk, backed up by a wall of framed sheepskins, hanging ...
Spotting Race Bores
Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down people who don't pretend that race doesn't exist. It's a term coined by people in ...
Sacred Sexuality
Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just between you, me and this dropcap. When you were in your teens, before reality took ...
Thoughts for Sleepless Nights
They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? What about the other 0.05%?! Do the math. We have about 34,000 genes. That means ...
Asian American Woman's Burden
By the age of ten I could picture my future husband. He would be handsome, thoughtful, brilliant, strong and sing like an archangel, just like ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Big American Misconceptions About Asians
We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west and east. We feel the currents swirling together in opposition to form thunderheads with the ...
Why I Love Los Angeles
I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I have in the last five years within the last two weeks (I went to New ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans
We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm not talking about the massive military parade China is putting on for the PRC's 60th ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Asian Men and Interracial Dating
When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, I take notice. We all do, because they aren't so common. That rarity suggests different ...
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
The Race Factor in Asian American Life
An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to his own house and, presumedly, spray painted racial slurs on his own car to lend ...
The End of Cars As We Know Them
I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I don't get turned on by appliances and rarely talk about them. But I do appreciate ...
Rising Asian American Stars
The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, boasting a cast of young, budding talent including an actress with striking Asian features named ...
The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents
Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for using the DVR to compress matches down to a fast-paced blur, I won't learn until ...
Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East
I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at the precipice of nostalgia. It's not exactly the basement of the house I grew up ...
Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright
My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently became close friends with Jun Song, a Korean-American Manhattan-based former investment banker who also happened ...
The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?
Every generation has its family sitcoms. First it was “Leave it to Beaver”, then “The Brady Bunch”. Later came “The Cosby Show”, which kicked off ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
China's Rising Testosterone Level and Its New Voice
The world will have to get used to hearing China's increasingly big voice on international affairs as it basks in its long moment in the ...
Losers Redefine Nerds and Geeks
Their recent association with Asians is giving two old terms of scorn new caché among Americans who value competence and individuality.
U.S. Roads Abound with Metaphors for Life
We could have a Jasmine Revolution in our own nation if we embrace short-sighted, self-centered demagogues.
China's Next Leader Offers Hope for Future
China's likely progress toward an open, even democratic society is apparent in the character of Hu's successor.
Internet Replaces Democracy As Political Force
Last week's Iowa Straw Poll in Ames and the internet afterbuzz is likely to short-circuit the intended democratic process.
Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists
Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our own homegrown economic and social fundamentalists.
Standing Up As an Asian American
Outbursts at perceived racial slights can be unpleasant, but can also be moments that affirm universal human dignity.
Here Comes The Jeremy Lin Show
It looks like I was a little early to jump on the bandwagon for the Jeremy Lin show because this kid is blowing up big ...
Multi-Racial Land: A Racist Christmas Song
In the spirit of the season I wanted to remember those special people who give meaning to our lives but are too modest to take ...
Obama on Legalizing Hookers, Drugs, Gambling
A young man at a recent Obama town hall meeting in Pennsylvania suggested legalizing non-violent crimes like prostitution, drug sales
What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say
Last week, my good friend Jill – miss golden child of her family – stealthily encroached forbidden territory. She got a tattoo. On that ...
Unsticking Japan
I am delighted that the LDP has lost power in Japan after 55 years of nearly continuous rule. It's not because I believe that the ...
Confessions of a Happy Asian American
Some people bitch about being Asian in the U.S. of A. Me, I live for it. I tried joining the majority once. No, it wasn't ...
Brotherly Advice for Asian American Women
Hey, Asian women, I love you. But I gotta tell you -- Your nutty insecurities make you do things that are highly embarrassing not only ...
10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans
After years of sleep-deprivation, hobo chic and ramen dinners, you've arrived! You're behind a walnut desk, backed up by a wall of framed sheepskins, hanging ...
Spotting Race Bores
Race bore" is a term commonly used to put down people who don't pretend that race doesn't exist. It's a term coined by people in ...
Sacred Sexuality
Let's get real for a moment. I mean, just between you, me and this dropcap. When you were in your teens, before reality took ...
Thoughts for Sleepless Nights
They say all humans are genetically 99.95% identical. What? What about the other 0.05%?! Do the math. We have about 34,000 genes. That means ...
Asian American Woman's Burden
By the age of ten I could picture my future husband. He would be handsome, thoughtful, brilliant, strong and sing like an archangel, just like ...
Dear Will Smith
At age 10, most girls had just graduated Barbie and entered the tailspinning world of boys, but I was light-years ahead of the curve. I ...
Big American Misconceptions About Asians
We Asian Americans stand at the crossroads between west and east. We feel the currents swirling together in opposition to form thunderheads with the ...
Why I Love Los Angeles
I absolutely love Los Angeles. After traveling more than I have in the last five years within the last two weeks (I went to New ...
Of Time and Fat
Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...
Connecting with Other Asian Americans
Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...
Time to Get a New Mirror
Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...
Discarding Social Conditioning
You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...
Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)
A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...
Sexualizing Homosexuality
I spent the majority of my life in sunny Los Angeles, where the only trend more fashionable than skinny jeans and the grapefruit diet is ...
What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans
We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm not talking about the massive military parade China is putting on for the PRC's 60th ...
The Lou Jing Ripple Effect
What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...
Asian Men and Interracial Dating
When I see an Asian man with a non-Asian woman, I take notice. We all do, because they aren't so common. That rarity suggests different ...
Sleep, Insomnia and the Mysteries of Life
Sleep is life's great mystery, greater I think than love. We have good working hypotheses on love and its functions. But we still can't fathom ...
The Race Factor in Asian American Life
An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to his own house and, presumedly, spray painted racial slurs on his own car to lend ...
The End of Cars As We Know Them
I'm not a car guy. I'm an appliance guy. I don't get turned on by appliances and rarely talk about them. But I do appreciate ...
Rising Asian American Stars
The highly-anticipated CW premier of “Melrose Place” aired last week, boasting a cast of young, budding talent including an actress with striking Asian features named ...
The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents
Thanks to a nightmare rain delay and my preference for using the DVR to compress matches down to a fast-paced blur, I won't learn until ...
Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East
I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at the precipice of nostalgia. It's not exactly the basement of the house I grew up ...
Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright
My friend Michelle, who currently resides in New York, recently became close friends with Jun Song, a Korean-American Manhattan-based former investment banker who also happened ...
The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?
Every generation has its family sitcoms. First it was “Leave it to Beaver”, then “The Brady Bunch”. Later came “The Cosby Show”, which kicked off ...
Asian Students Under Assault
It's been a long time since I've been in the hormone-charged racially-aware atmosphere of high school but a feature I read this week about the ...
Asian Southerners
When my parents told me they were moving from our home in California to Alabama, I envisioned a sparsely populated vacuum infested with greasy deep-fried ...
China's Rising Testosterone Level and Its New Voice
The world will have to get used to hearing China's increasingly big voice on international affairs as it basks in its long moment in the ...
Losers Redefine Nerds and Geeks
Their recent association with Asians is giving two old terms of scorn new caché among Americans who value competence and individuality.
U.S. Roads Abound with Metaphors for Life
We could have a Jasmine Revolution in our own nation if we embrace short-sighted, self-centered demagogues.
China's Next Leader Offers Hope for Future
China's likely progress toward an open, even democratic society is apparent in the character of Hu's successor.
Internet Replaces Democracy As Political Force
Last week's Iowa Straw Poll in Ames and the internet afterbuzz is likely to short-circuit the intended democratic process.
Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists
Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our own homegrown economic and social fundamentalists.
Standing Up As an Asian American
Outbursts at perceived racial slights can be unpleasant, but can also be moments that affirm universal human dignity.
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