Posted in Culture

Bet You Didn’t Know There Were Chinese Passengers On Titanic…

featured image: Fang Lang is rescued in a deleted scene from Titanic (1997) In fact there were eight, all third-class passengers and on their way…

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Posted in Culture US

Watters’ World: Chinatown (Unedited)

If you’re an Asian American, you might still be trying very hard to forget the extremely stupid, unfunny and racist Chinatown segment of Watters’ World aired two weeks…

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Posted in Culture US

Outsiders in Our Own Home

Last week we saw Fox News’ Jesse Watters in Chinatown conducted an offensive interview segment with Chinese immigrants who don’t understand English. Not only were the interviews not…

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Posted in China Culture Entertainment

New Trailer: The Great Wall

The Chinese-American coproduction, The Great Wall, is set to be released in February 2017 but the trailer with Matt Damon as a warrior who saves the…

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Posted in Culture Hong Kong

Fan Ho 1931-2016

A few years ago, I discovered some photographs taken in the streets of Hong Kong during the fifties and sixties. Most of these photos depict…

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Posted in Culture Thailand US

Not Another Generous Tip Story

Several heartwarming stories of diners leaving generous tips have gone viral as of late, but here’s one that splashes cold water in your face. According to…

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Posted in Culture US

What Caused Former Grad Student to Snap?

The news of the shooting at UCLA unsettled the westside neighborhood where I live. For hours, media outlets would only comment that there were two down and…

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Posted in China Culture Italy

Is Intellectual Theft Worse than Racism?

Not long after I posted the blog on Qiaobi’s racial transformation commercial, a friend posted an Italian laundry detergent Coloreria commercial on my Facebook page….

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Posted in China Culture

Chinese Laundry Detergent Ad Features Racial Transformation

Qiaobi’s latest detergent advertisement can be seen widely on television and cinemas in China. The advertisement featuring an amazing racial transformation is both getting eyeballs…

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Posted in Culture Queer US

LA Pride On Fire #notourpride

Christopher Street West Association Inc., a 47-year-old non-profit organization in Los Angeles, who organizes the annual Los Angeles Pride parade and festival has been lit…

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