Whether you admit it or not, being raised in America, we all know the racial stereotypes that have traversed through our colorful history. For Asian Americans, we are all good at math right? It’s a stereotype, but a good stereotype right? Despite my frequent ramblings, political correctness concerns me little. Instead, I am interested in …
On January 21, two years after Seung-Hui Cho’s Virginia Tech shooting rampage left 32 dead and more injured, the agriculture-focused school suffered yet another gruesome incident. This time, when police first responders arrived at an off-campus student housing diner, police found doctoral candidate Haiyang Zhu, a Chinese national, holding a kitchen knife in one hand …
Like any Communist country, capitalist innovations tend to have a 30-year delay before reaching the reds. The last time I visited China in 2000, Michael Jackson and Boys II Men were still the premier American pop stars. Inn reality, China today is as capitalist as anyone and North Korea’s not exactly following the guidance of …
Socrates knew that he was the wisest man alive. Why? For he knew one thing, that he knew nothing. I’m not so bold as to make such a statement, but I will say one thing, and that is I know NOTHING about Asian pop, hip hop, and pretty much any contemporary music from the far …
Last night, besides listening to Oakland’s typical street noise creep through my window – The usual scraper drudging down the street, the AC transit, or the occasional gun shot – I instead heard the lovely crackling of firecrackers. It took me a minute, but I soon realized the clock struck 12 and the lunar new …
Right after Tuesday’s historic inauguration, I crossed one item off my list of things I never expected to see in my life. As our 44th US President Barack Obama took office, hope began to muster behind the possibility of a racially harmonious America. Sadly, as an Asian American guy, I crossed “black president” off my …
For the most part, and we all know this, Chinese people are crazy. Chinese patrons will negotiate and bargain over a 50 cent sticker. Chinese families will go to the ends of the Earth to set up a dollar store. Heck, if the Army ever managed to find Bin Laden, I’m sure a Wang’s …
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