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Closing the Gates to Chinatown: How 2025’s Tariffs May Affect Historic Communities

June 4, 2025 Sophie Vansomphone
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唔該 / Thank You

June 4, 2025 Amy L. Wong
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Book Review: “Other: an Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners’ Anthology”

June 4, 2025 Seth Tang
In Arts & Culture December 1, 2020

Internment

By Lorraine Lee

Internment (n.): the imprisonment of people, usually for political reasons and targeted towards a certain group of people. On February 19, 1942, following the…

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In Monthlies November 30, 2020

Dangers of the Model Minority Myth

By Snow Zheng

Hard-working employees, law-abiding citizens, straight-A students. These labels have been plaguing the APIDA community since the end of World War II, when this community’s…

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In Monthlies November 27, 2020

Internalizing and Unlearning the Model Minority Myth

By Abita Venkatesh

Officially, the model minority myth is the belief that all Asians are naturally high achieving. Unofficially, it meant that my childhood was a constant…

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In Arts & Culture November 27, 2020

Behind The Silence: APIDA Students and Mental Health

By Snow Zheng

I sometimes come across scenes in movies or TV shows that make fun of Asian students’ obsession of getting As. The characters (usually white)…

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In News Politics November 26, 2020

A Preview of Presidency: Some Views on Biden

By Ayushee Roy

Joe Biden is officially the president-elect of the United States and is expected to be inaugurated next Jan. 20 of 2021. Many are optimistic…

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In Arts & Culture November 25, 2020

Cultural Assimilation

By Vanshita Gupta

Cultural assimilation (n.): the process in which individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society Cultural…

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