CNN blasted for report on Asian American voters
CNN is taking some heat for its very superficial Feb. 8 report on “Anderson Cooper 360” about why Asian American Democratic voters are favoring Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama.
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Asian Americans help Clinton, McCain win
Asian American voters in California overwhelmingly threw their support to Hillary Clinton and John McCain in Tuesday’s primary, according to exit polls.
Lucy Liu’s Mia dating an Asian American Man
Angry Asian Man points out that Mia, Lucy Liu’s character on Cashmere Mafia, is involved romantically with an Asian American man and are even shown kissing on the show!
Asian Americans acting white at Harvard
According to a senior thesis by Jenny Tsai, some Asian American students at Harvard ” ‘act white because ‘acting Asian’ is equated with acting foreign or like a nerd.” Tsai’s paper seems to describe a Read More …
Toisanese turned into music
Author William Poy Lee is trying to get some respect for the Toisan Chinese dialect by setting it to music.
Poll: Minority groups don’t trust each other
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.
Kung Fu movie searches for star
The search is on to find the actor to play the lead in a movie based on the old TV series, Kung Fu.
UC adds categories for APA applicants
The University of California is figuring out that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders don’t all look the same.
‘Shortcomings’ stands tall
Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel, “Shortcomings” is generating a lot of buzz these days.
John Cho to be the new Sulu
It looks like John Cho of Harold and Kumar fame is going to be the new Sulu for the next Star Trek movie, according to multiple news stories and StarTrek.com.