Collateral Damage of Full Metal Jacket
When Gunnery Sergeant Hartman said, “There is no racial bigotry here,” I knew that Full Metal Jacket would make me want to throw up in disgust. The film did not disappoint.
Iron Man 3: Rise of the Mandarin?
With the success of The Avengers, media consumers like myself can’t help but look to the future and think, “What next?” Well, what’s next is Iron Man 3. But now I’m wondering, what does the comic book industry have anything to do with Asian Americans? Unfortunately, it has everything to do with Asian Americans. The…
Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans sue BP over Oil Spill
In an email sent to contractors in the Gulf Oil Spill, BP specifically told them not to hire vessels owned by Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans in the oil spill clean-up. Despite the fact that over half of the fisherman affected by the oil spill were Vietnamese Americans and Cambodian Americans, vessels owned by these…
Complex Colors: Dustin Nguyen
When I first started reading comics in the summer of 2010, I was expecting comics to possess the same quality that most popular media in my life did: a lack of diversity. Despite the abundance of color in life, and the varied axes on which people live, it seems that popular media seems to cater…
Filipino Americans in the Occupy Wall Street Movement
As the Occupy Wall Street movement spreads across the nation, so does its message resound across groups of the underrepresented. Filipino Americans have joined the protestors in San Francisco’s financial district as they demand accountability from political leaders to take responsibility for the economic crisis that continues to harm everyday people (known as the 99%)…