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Spirit and Soul Of the Asian Pacific American Communities
TO DISCOVER OUR TRUE STORIES that provides an "Up Close and Personal" view of the stories, dreams, history, struggles, spirit and soul of the Asian Pacific American communities - one must read the words from our many story-tellers. As a result, a personal invitation is extended to "experience" the stories listed below and "On the Left" for your review. Your many journeys will provide you many revelations, surprises, sadness and joys that are unique to the Asian Pacific American communities. "CHARLOTTE
SOMETIMES'" DIRECTOR (ERIC BYLER) STATED -
My
parents were the perfect parents for an artist. They nurtured my creativity,
and never tried to indoctrinate me with absolutes. When I asked about God,
for instance, my mother would begin with “some people believe.”
ATHLETICS
IN AMERICA ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE. In
this new millennium, it is a bright color spectrum that encompasses all
colors and races. It has extended beyond the borders of America and gone
global.
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I
FEEL THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC, including literature
professors and other intellectuals do not fully understand the Asian American,
the rich experience that is a default action of their lives.
"IT ISN'T FAIR."
These words were Vincent Chin's last before he lost consciousness. The perpetrators were Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who blamed Japanese carmakers for Detroit's problems in the auto industry. Ebens was heard saying, "It is because of you little motherf*ckers that we're out of work!"
CANTONESE OPERA
is a traditional art form that involves music, singing, martial arts, acrobatics and acting. Cantonese Opera plays tell stories about Chinese history, traditions, culture and philosophies.
AS A 4TH GENERATION
Chinese American who grew up in Hollywood as a child performer doing TV
sitcoms, movies, and a nightclub act in Las Vegas during the 1960s, I am
well aware of the gap between how Asian Americans view themselves, and how
non-Asians view us.
IT SEEMS
THAT WHITE GUYS
are more and more "into Asian girls" than ever before.
Some (mainly) white dudes are so enamored with Asian and Asian American
females that they have developed what is often termed an "Asian fetish."
MY
EFFORT
in the last few months to develop a network of resources and partners to
awaken and empower the Korean American churches in . . . . has been an exciting
adventure and a great learning experience. CALLED
TO MY ATTENTION
that very few people know what a Hawaiian really is.
ON DEC. 7th, 1941 -
Pearl Harbor (Oahu) was attacked by Imperial Japanese Naval forces at
about 7:55am in the morning. Over 33% . . . .Asian Americans were among
the first US citizens and residents casualties when America was thrust
into WW2.
THE IMPACT OF ASIAN GOLFERS
has resulted
in the Asian culture's increase of interest in the game. According to current
statistics provided by the National Golf Foundation, there are great increases
of diverse interests in the game of golf.
SOMETHING TRULY STRANGE
is happening when a Mandarin language film opens
in Seattle in just two art house theaters, then breaks out to 5, and then
12 theaters in the suburban multiplexes in just 3 weeks.
NBC'S
RECENT MINISERIES "The Lost Empire" provides a touchstone for
looking at ways that anti-Asian sentiments are practiced. I say "sentiments"
because at this point I am somewhat reluctant to label the movie "racist,"
at least until a fuller definition of the term is operative.
ASIANS HAVE ATTRACTED LITTLE ATTENTION
because, unlike African Americans and Latinos, they tend to eschew vociferous
protest groups. SEVERAL
YEARS AGO
I was writing major in college with idealistic dreams of making it in
the entertainment business. . . I was discouraged, depressed
and frustrated that I received almost no support from the people I was
trying to unite and represent.
SEARCH
FOR "ASIAN EXOTIC MAIL ORDER BRIDES" in
excite.com, and one will come up with 195 hits. The mail-order bride business
has been booming of late with over 200 agencies estimated in the United
States. GREATEST
IMPACT that
Asian/Asian Pacific American heritage have on me, is the family morale
and the drive to work hard to be successful. I believe we stick to our
blood through thick and thin. WE
ALL LAMENT how much catch-up Asian American
church development has to do, so much of it barely or not even begun.
How do we even talk about the issues? KIANA
TOM STATED THAT HER ROLE MODELS ARE Goldie
Hawn. . . . I love her bubbly personality, the way she brightens every
room, she is like sunshine, she seems to have found the "balance" in
career and her personal family life. . . . . Marilyn Monroe: what a
feat to be so beautiful and to be attractive to men and women-not intimidating
to other women. A
FEW YEARS AGO, I WAS SURPRISED to
see that the States was in a lather over "geisha chic"-which
persists to this day. Chopsticks were stuck in heads fair and dark. Fashion
magazines urged women to "Geisha-ize." Madonna, that fashion
chameleon, appeared in a red vinyl kimono, with her hair in a sharp, asymmetrical
bob that must be one of the hairstyles Hollywood thinks of as that "funky
Asian chick 'do."
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