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@kimmythepooh
Kimmy
6 years
You’re 8 years old. Your 3rd grade class orders chinese food & your father delivers it. You are so excited to see your pops in school. He’s your hero. But apparently other kids don’t think he’s so cool. They laugh at him and mimic his accent. You don’t want to be Chinese anymore.
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6 years
You’re 25 years old. You see a movie with an all-asian cast at a screening and for some reason you’re crying and you can’t stop. You’ve never seen a cast like this in Hollywood. Everyone is beautiful. You’re so happy you’re Chinese. #CrazyRichAsians #RepresentationMatters
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6 years
You’re 20 years old. You’ve spent the past several years repatriating yourself. You get your family’s name inked into your skin. That character is there forever. You won’t let anyone make you feel the way you did all those years ago. You love being Chinese.
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6 years
But you know you rejected your culture a long time ago. You know you refused to speak Chinese & you remember calling your mother’s food “disgusting.” It’s fucked. It clicks. It’s a race to reclaim everything you’ve hated about yourself. For the 1st time, you want to be Chinese.
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6 years
You’re 9 years old. You attend ballet camp. Someone tells you that another girl *hates* you. She thinks your eyes are an “ugly shape.” You don’t have the vocabulary to describe why that’s hurtful. But now, you hate your distinctly Asian face. You don’t want to be Chinese anymore.
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6 years
You’re 16 years old. It’s Halloween & 2 students come to class dressed as “Asian tourists.” They’ve taped their eyes back, strapped cameras around their necks and chucked up peace signs. You feel uncomfortable. When a teacher asks if you find the costumes offensive, you say no.
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6 years
You’re 17 years old. You’re off to college & you meet other Asians. They have pride that you never had. You meet a boy & he wonders why you don’t speak your family’s tongue. Why your favorite food is grilled cheese, not xiao long bao. You say your family doesn’t live that way.
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6 years
You don’t want people thinking you’re uptight. You laugh along with everyone else. You don’t want to be Chinese anymore.
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4 years
I love how cho Chang is trending. Gotta get that one off my chest. Jk Rowling gave the one chinese character the name equivalent of ching Chong. Then that character ended up being a snitching ass square. And did literally nothing in the series but date people.
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2 years
You know why else this is cool? We’re too often told to mute our emotions and stifle our happiness in the name of humility but like fuqqqq that. This is how we should be living
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2 years
Here’s Ke Huy Quan entering the press room last night by literally jumping for joy. He has given us all a million reasons to love him. Everyone please cast him in everything. 😭😭😭 My whole entire heart
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3 years
ok but how are you going to get Ali Wong's husband mixed up with Randall Park, but NONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD CHRIS'S MIXED UP EVER.
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@kimmythepooh
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5 years
ASIANS ! Cough loudly everywhere you go to weed out the racists!!!!
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3 years
spoke to "Hey Arnold!" creator Craig Bartlett abt the Vietnam War episode on recurring character Mr. Hyunh. It aired 25 yrs ago &served, for many Asian Americans in the 90s, as 1 of the only times a piece of their history appeared in mainstream pop culture
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2 years
Here’s Ke Huy Quan entering the press room last night by literally jumping for joy. He has given us all a million reasons to love him. Everyone please cast him in everything. 😭😭😭 My whole entire heart
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@kimmythepooh
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7 years
. @BTS_twt can't stop s l a y i n g.
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2 years
my latest, on why for Asian women, who contend with historical pressures from both within the community and beyond to make themselves small, Michelle Yeoh’s refusal to wrap up her acceptance speech when the exit track began to play had a deeper meaning.
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10 months
A while ago, I interviewed the creator of Hey Arnold! Craig Bartlett about the '96 Vietnam episode of the show delved into the story of Vietnamese refugee Mr. Hyunh and his separation from his daughter Mai. It was the show's very 1st Christmas special.
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3 years
For women, particularly women of color, public safety anxieties preceded the pandemic. We steel ourselves for harassment and violence upon leaving the house. But few are ever confident that we’ll receive help when we need it. Rip Christina Yuna Lee.
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5 years
info on the real life Yasuke: -slavers took him & sent him to India to serve the Portuguese. -ended up in Japan as indentured bodyguard to missionary Alessandro Valignano. -given to warlord Oda Nobunaga, who awarded him prestigious status of samurai
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2 years
Reminder to tip well and be kind to all Chinese restaurant workers this Christmas Day. You may have a day off but our families do not. It’s busy, it’s stressful, and the hours are particularly long since all other restaurants are generally closed. Love to all the canguan kids 💜
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2 years
Big budget Hollywood studios keep trying to cast Asian men with abs up to their neck and features that fit western beauty standards, when really we want a Ke Huy Quan.
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2 years
It makes me sad that in his golden globes speech, Ke Huy Quan said he was worried *he* had nothing more to offer during that lull in his career. When it was *Hollywood* that refused to offer AAPI the opportunities. The way these institutions cause us to internalize their wrongs
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3 years
the "omicron isn't *as* bad" and "we're all gonna get it anyway" crowds, don't seem to give af about our brothers and sisters with disabilities or who are immunocompromised, huh
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3 years
ralph lauren fits make us look like we're still under british rule smdh
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4 years
My latest: A new @StopAAPIHate report revealed nearly 3,800 incidents reported over the course of ~1yr during the pandemic. Women made up a far higher share of the reports at 68 percent, compared to men, who made up 29 percent of respondents.
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3 years
May 1st marks asian pacific american heritage month which means it's illegal to arbitrarily bring up your asian wife for the entirety of those 31 days or else you go to jail.
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5 years
idk why big hero 6 is trending but i've said this before and i'll say it again. tadashi hamada was the perfect man and the world will never have a more eligible bachelor.
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4 years
Literally did she do anything but date two people in the whole series?
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5 years
i'm sorry. love all of you. but the people who are out here walking around their houses with their shoes on have no morals.
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4 years
check on your loved ones and friends in the asian american and pacific islander community. it's been a horrible and terrifying and scary fkn year in pandemic and this is horrific act of violence is sickening.
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4 years
Her character development was moving from one guy to the next. Sigh...
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3 years
it is so odd when people complain about not being able to say or do certain offensive things bc "now X is racist." nothing is suddenly racist. there are many things that are just now being recognized, or discussed, as racist by the mainstream. but they have *always* been racist
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1 year
“I request a prayer from all of you that he live a healthy life, to be bright, to love everyone, and to be loved.” Won Hwan Cho said of surviving grandson, 6yo William, at a funeral for Kyu, Cindy, and James Cho. reporting by @CiCiAdams_
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6 years
@FredTJoseph No matter how cold, there’s always a white dude in a t shirt and shorts. You will see one today. Guaranteed.
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4 years
my latest: today is the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. On the 6 Chinese Titanic survivors who were barred entry into the U.S. after the tragedy & were swiftly erased from the history books. their story is chillingly relevant today.
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3 years
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6 years
i talked to super cool dude @steveaoki about K-pop, Monsta X, and his collabs with international acts: ”[K-pop] challenges the stereotypical Western idea of masculinity without being political about it.” 🙌
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3 years
The fact that this photo of figure skating god Hanyu and baseball god Shohei exists. AAAAAAHHHH 🔥
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6 years
lucy liu is a beautiful breathtaking ageless angel #GoldenGlobes 📸 Getty Images
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2 years
reminder that just because the suspect is Asian, doesn't mean that the issue of race is absent from this horrible tragedy altogether.
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7 years
That's it. . @BTS_twt needs to perform "smelly cat" from . @FriendsTV . They'd shut that down too.
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4 years
an emo vegan restaurant called melon cauli
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1 year
I’ll also add that we reached out to Twitter, Netflix, A24, David Choe, Ali Wong, and Steven Yeun. So far, no responses from any of those parties.
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1 year
An email obtained by NBC News, sent from Twitter and addressed to @MediumSizeMeech — 1 of 2 social media users whose tweets were removed — listed Choe as the copyright holder & party who had requested the takedown.
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5 years
It’s @BTS_twt day, today’s gonna be lit 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #BTSxTodayShow
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4 years
The highest review you can give an asian dessert is “not too sweet”
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5 years
@peta Wow peta are you fucking for real. You tone deaf ignoramuses who couldn’t even get the holiday right.
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5 years
Yasuke was also a really dope fighter. title of samurai isn't just given to *anyone*
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5 years
HOW IS MICHELLE YEOH ALL OF OUR ASIAN MOMS AND ALSO A BADASS ASSASSIN MARTIAL ARTIST LEGEND AS WELL AS A LOWKEY HYPEBEAST ALL AT THE SAME TIME
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"A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals. But they’re just goals — we don’t want to change our identity or our genuineness to get the number one.” -- RM of @bts_bighit #btsarmy
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4 years
it was incredibly powerful, seeing an Asian American host a show that did not take obvious pains to "appeal to a wider audience" (aka a whiter audience) and instead enveloped so much of @hasanminhaj 's experience unapologetically, authentically into each episode.
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5 years
i have officially started to care about this taylor swift kim k bs. bc todrick hall seems to think shaming a woman over a sex tape that was leaked w/o consent is ok. then continued to make comments about her appearance and ppl are celebrating this as a mic drop wtf is wrong w/u
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2 years
Shoutout to James Hong, who refused to let Hollywood hide its racist past. “The producer said the Asians were not good enough and they are not box office-[worthy],” said Hong. “But look at us now.”
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3 years
the olympics is forcing americans to cheer for a dude whose last name is chen and after having dealt with years of pandemic fueled racism, this is asian america's mic drop.
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4 years
do you ever just think about how beautiful it is that we asians take off our shoes before entering someone's safe space. how quietly respectful that is. it is not only about cleanliness. it is what we do at temples, our altars. and we replicate the act in homes.
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2 years
a rich man was reminded that his hairline once looked entirely different and now everyone's accounts are getting suspended
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4 years
never again in my life do i want to hear that Asian American women don't deal with any issues. never tf again.
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Of the 3,800 reported racist incidents against Asians in the US this last year, almost 70% of victims were Asian women, a new report says. from @kimmythepooh
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There is a history of tensions between the Asian American and Black communities. Former officer Tou Thao's involvement in the death of George Floyd is what many activists describe as a symbol of Asian American complicity in anti-blackness. I wrote about it
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3 years
Nearly all NYC Ida basement-flooding deaths were ppl of Asian descent.Climate change is a hidden issue for many low-income AAPI immigrants,often forced by cultural needs,poverty&immigration status to live in unsafe conditions. My latest w/ @sakshi_saroja
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2 years
I truly hope the year of the rabbit is the softer, calmer, kinder year it’s said to be. We all really need it.
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3 years
ITS AN ASIAN AMERICAN HOLIDAY, PEOPLE
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🥇 OLYMPIC CHAMPION‼️ @nathanwchen clinches the 🥇, scoring 218.63 for his free skate for a total score of 332.60❗️ #WinterOlympics #Beijing2022 #TeamUSA
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3 years
so many things. but the fact that this was posted to an official account. with those fqn emojis. with no other context. what the fk are you doing bro
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3 years
Legend Bong Joon-Ho presented icon Chloe Zhao with an Oscar tonight. god damn that's beautiful. Cheers, Asian America
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6 years
This is significant because Bao is SO obviously, unapologetically a Chinese immigrant story. the red bowls, shrimp chips, rice cooker, rebellious kid caught between cultures, interracial dating. Asian immigrant fams/ stories are worthy of recognition.
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7 years
. @weareoneEXO is so fiyaaaaaaa. And so is @JohnnyGWeir ‘s #Olympics2018 #ClosingCeremony commentary
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K-pop bands @weareoneEXO @chaelinCL blew everyone's minds.
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5 years
Andrew Yang has been repeatedly omitted from media coverage, namely polling & fundraising graphics. some AAPI have speculated this has to do how society sees, (or doesn't see), Asian Americans as a whole. So I talked to @AndrewYang to see what he thought
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5 years
ICE just deported 25 immigrants of Cambodian descent, most of whom came to the U.S. legally as refugees after the Vietnam War. It's the very first round of deportations this year.
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6 years
This picture alone should just win a SAG award. This is what we POC have dreamt of Hollywood looking like.
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5 years
HEY KIDS! some *personal news* Next month, I will be joining NBC News, reporting on -- you guessed it! -- ASIAN AMERICA! (I could never leave my people) I am so FREAKIN STOKED. I have so many ideas, stories, projects I want to pursue.
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6 years
THE QUEEN MICHELLE YEOH HAS ARRIVED. BOW DOWN, BOW DOWN. #Oscars
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5 years
when you're asian AND unproblematic:
@its_willyu
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Ming-Na Wen Ming-Na Wen at the 1998 at the 2020 Mulan premiere #Mulan premiere
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3 years
“It's always, ‘What did America lose?’” he said. "Vietnam, for half the country, they lost their homeland. And it's never told in that perspective. It turns into a sort of American mythology, the demise of American exceptionalism."
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1 year
I spoke to those close with Zijie Yan, the UNC shooting victim. They described him as a smiley, positive guy, who loved to cook and fish, was a trailblazer in his work, and, above all, treasured his time with his two daughters.
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2 years
The way pets just fart and look at you like it’s your fault.
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5 years
Just cooking dumplings in the tears of all the dudes with yellow fever. How’s your Saturday night?
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3 years
If you’re Asian American and you do not recognize an attack on the Sikh community as an attack on our own, your idea of “AAPI” is inaccurate, exclusive, closed minded. This is absolutely heartbreaking
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Sikh community mourns loss of 4 in Indianapolis FedEx mass shooting. "Our community has been through enough trauma," Komal Chohan, who lost his maternal grandmother in the shooting, said.
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“I wanted to do that. I was like, ‘Let's do stuff that's about how childhood is sad and kind of messed up and as a child you don't have any power and you’re just kind of trying your best.’” “You can't fix things, but we make them a little bit better.”
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5 years
andrew yang, the first asian american man to run for president as a democrat is out. what does this say about POC accessibility to the political sphere ?
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2 years
wow. during the Monterey Park press conference the sheriff said someone called the hospital where some of the victims are and said they wanted to "finish the job." that is so absolutely horrific.
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“We saw Michelle Yeoh take up space and insist on using her voice,” said scholar Catherine Ceniza Choy. “We have to live with these stereotypes and expectations of being demure and diminutive on the daily.”
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My latest, a profile on @tedlieu . Prior to the pandemic, I interviewed the congressman in his office, curious about what led him to the Air Force and later a career in politics -- a path uncommon for Asian Americans.
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I wrote about Don Tamaki, the 1 non-Black member of CA's reparations task force, who's known for his legal work in the Japanese American redress &reparations movement. He talked solidarity &why reparations for the Black community is a critical issue to JAs
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3 years
to the people who are clutching their pearls at #TurningRed : wait till you find out what teenage boys are like lol
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they tried cutting off michelle yeoh from her acceptance speech and she SAID SHUT UP, I CAN BEAT YOU UP LOLOLOL QUEEN
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3 years
The racial politics that goes into who’s expected to move on a narrow sidewalk…
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3 years
I wrote about Suni Lee's win and how Hmong struggles & achievements have long been shrouded in decades of model minority tropes. Experts say Lee’s success isn’t so much proof of meritocracy in the U.S. but a reflection of the resilience of her & community
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Bao Nguyen @baomnguyen , a Vietnamese American director who remembers feeling emotional about the episode as a kid, explained that too often, stories of the Vietnam War are told through the lens of a “loss of American innocence.”
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4 years
I will never ever wrap my mind around how some will opt to cut down a hurting, marginalized group of women rather than acknowledge their pain. Some of the comments by those outside the community and even by some within have truly shaken me. Love more, what else is there
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there are SO many different, critical details they could've pulled out for headline — from the way leftovers were stored to the fact the student was not properly vaxxed. I hardly believe the food being chinese takeout is relevant here and yet...
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“This was really the first time where I felt like the Vietnam War story was completely centered around the Vietnamese perspective. It wasn't diluted in a way to cater for a white audience. It was unapologetically the Vietnam perspective,” Nguyen said.
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In the episode Mr. Hyunh revealed how the war in his country had forced him to find a way to flee his city. While atop the U.S. Embassy, Mr. Hyunh, with his infant Mai, in his arms, made the decision to leave her w a soldier, knowing it would be the only way to ensure her safety.
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2 years
James Hong finally got his star today after a career boasting 700 film and TV credits. He is one of less than 20 ppl of Asian descent on the walk, which has more than 2700 stars total.
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I confirmed with GQ that @henrygolding is the outlet’s first Asian Man Of The Year. He joins other badasses in this year’s class! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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after hours of screaming and fighting, parents do not apologize. even when it's revealed that they are wrong. they just abruptly start acting stupid nice and using some weird tone that they usually use when talking to their friends' kids.
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3 years
As heavy as the Christmas special was, the episode was still part of the show’s brand. Over the years, “Hey Arnold!” has been lauded for exposing children to bits of a harsh world in a way they could understand while also preserving the beauty and wonder that came w being a kid.
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2 years
not putting up with anyone trying to undermine the asian american community's pain.
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5 years
There’s this flawed belief that “bad Asians” or “loud Asians” are the “right Asians” — the ones who deserve to be part of our movement. It’s BS. If you’re a quiet asian or a play-by-the-rules asian, that’s dope too. You’re not playing into stereotypes. Authenticity is subversive.
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I wrote about Ali Wong's raunchy comedy special and how it’s especially profound to see an expression of sexuality that’s not through the white male lens at a time of heightened fear and anxiety among Asian American women.
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to all the asian kids who misdirected their anger, aiming at their parents, when it should've been meant for the shitty racist people who made our star spangled asses feel foreign. it's ok. we didn't know. we can apologize now. #TuesdayThoughts
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