ANTI-ASIAN HATE CRIME SPREE

In the past week or so, Brooklyn has been experiencing a spree of Anti-Asian hate crimes, at least five elderly Asian women have been assaulted in the borough in the last ten days. The perpetrators have been apprehended, two girls, one of which is only 12 years old. The children are African American and this incident as a whole has brought up questions of racial strife amongst minorities in mixed-race neighborhoods and the long standing tension that has existed between African Americans and Koreans. Also, this spree has also brought to light the problem of underreporting of hate crimes by Asian Americans. Even though many police departments are set up to investigate hate crimes, incidents of hate crime reporting involving Asian Pacific American victims is seriously underreported to the police. Reasons for this include:

- Immigrant victims may face language and cultural barriers to filing police reports.

- Immigrant victims are often unfamiliar with American law and fearful of law enforcement.

- Some victims are afraid that by reporting hate-related attacks, it will draw attention to them and make them vulnerable to further attacks.

- Some victims believe that their complaints will not be taken seriously by the police, or worse, that the police will persecute them for reporting incidents

Original articles can be found here and here

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Hmmm...what seems to be missing?

This article sums up the cover of the new Vanity Fair Hollywood 2010 Issue clearer than Superman's x-ray vision.

Why, why, why, why, why? Is there a lack of diversity in Hollywood, or do all the up-and-coming stars just happen to lack pigment and be skinny? Maybe there's something, oh I don't know, like a glass ceiling that is preventing the upward mobility of DIVERSE talent. I don't know, it's just a guess. Or maybe I'm just overreacting. Naaaaah.

LU GUANG

Last October, Lu Guang won the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photograph for a four year project, in which he documented the deleterious effects that pollution has had on the places and people of China.

Recently, Lu Guang has begun to show some of the findings from his trips around the country and the images are vivid, gripping, and haunting. Guang reveals to us the front-line victims of China's rapid industrialization and rise to the global stage of power.

MORE HERE

YouTube Talents

Procrastination is one of the finest skills that we have honed as impeccable students. It is an artform that everyone practices in every walk in life, from elementary school children to PhD professors who'd rather go to a bar than read the 10 page paper glory that manifested itself in a matter of hours. So, let us add to your arsenal (DRUMROLL) the amAsians of YouTube:

Jen Suk


AJ Rafael & Cathy Nguyen


Lydia Paek and Victor Kim


Gabe Bondoc


and countless others including:

Artists
Passion
David Choi
Kevin Lien
Jr Aquino

YouTube Stars
NigaHiga
Ice1cube
HappySlip
CommunityChannel
Kev Jumba

Sweet Voices.

Check out these Asian/Asian-American singers. Their voices are glorious.

Sam Tsui---

Kina Grannis---

Jennifer Chung + Legaci--

Asian Sportsmen

So here's another stereotype - Asians can't do sports. Is it our physique or is it the relative lack of interest in non-academic pursuits? Or are we just playing into the existing stereotypes once again? Maybe participation in sports is not a primary survival skill therefore, it is not valued? Regardless, here's one dude who broke out of the stereotype.

One more thing!

I found this very interesting link on angry asian man that I want to share with everyone.
Chen Haiwen is a Chinese photographer who traveled around China and took pictures of every ethnicity, all 56 of them.
This link has one photo of each group, with them wearing their traditional clothing.

http://www.chinahush.com/2009/12/06/family-portraits-of-all-56-ethnic-groups-in-china/

Check it out when you guys have time, or simply want to procrastinate on work, since second semester is starting soon...

Jackie Chan and the Karate Kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5LC6VnzQDw
Above is the trailer for Jackie Chan and Will Smith's son's remake of The Karate Kid.
I don't really know what to say about this movie because I couldn't tell whether I was mad or upset or just confused. For one, not every Chinese person knows kung fu. Secondly, the background makes China look like some crazy place where every single kid beats up foreigners. I particularly like how even though the whole movie takes place in Beijing, the Chinese are the enemies and Jackie Chan trains Jayden (?) to fight them off. Jackie Chan is selling out -.-

Then again, I might be overthinking this whole thing. Comments on this movie anyone? Maybe someone can enlighten me and let me see the good in this...

The Importance of Bone Marrow

Did you know that there is a nation-wide shortage of bone marrow donors for asian-american and other people of color groups?
well, ASA is planning to host a bone marrow drive at the end of November in the College Center.
and even though we've been planning for this event.. it hasn't really hit me how severe of an issue it is until I read this post on Angry Asian Man
Stacy Walker is a young woman of half-Korean and half-Caucasian descent who had been suffering from leukemia. However, she hadn't been able to find a bone marrow match and has passed away this Friday morning...

So, c'mon guys, sign up to be a bone marrow donor, and you can SAVE A LIFE.
-- more info about our bone marrow driver coming soon-- check your emails.