If you live in Los Angeles, the next time you’re on the freeway or at a busy intersection, take a look at the cars. How many colors do you see? I can count them on one hand: white, gray/silver, black, and red. Sure, occasionally you’ll see a blue or green car (wow!), but it’s really…
DetailsThanks, my fellow Pac Ties bloggers, for commenting on my “Remember the (API) Ladies” post and bringing to my attention that a third woman has been appointed a prominent role in Obama’s administration. On March 2, President Obama appointed Nancy-Ann Min DeParle to lead the White House Office of Health Reform. She is only 36…
DetailsAs we UCLA students slog through final exams, we like to commiserate about our exams, projects, and papers and then reassure each other that it’ll all be over soon. In Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China, people often use the expression “add oil (加油)” to encourage each other, especially during final exams season. Yesterday I said…
DetailsI tend to bookmark things on the intention of going back to read them … but sometimes I forget. But back in 2006, TIME Magazine published this really cool feature on “60 Years of Asian Heroes” which I argue is a timeless piece. How can we talk about APAs now without knowing all the history…
DetailsWhen I was an exchange student in Hong Kong two years ago, I learned that in Asia, some people (usually the older generation) assume that to be “American” is to be white. In Hong Kong, I chatted with some elderly Chinese and told them I was an exchange student from the U.S. “But you don’t look American,” they protested. I…
DetailsTwo university professors at Florida State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered a decrease in racial prejudice that occurred during the Nov. 4 election. They call this the Obama Effect. A series of studies and experiments done with 300 non-black (white, Asian or Hispanic) students, designed to measure stereotyping and implicit prejudice, has found…
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