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Amok at the convention: Mile High Obama’s dream–will Asian Americans help make it reality?
DENVER
There’s nothing quite like the hot air inside the arena of a political convention. Despite the frigid a/c, the rhetoric is so thick and duplicitous, after four days, it’s hard to know what’s true anymore.But the truth of the Mile High Democrats in 2008 is obvious when you go back to real-life, away from [...]
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What if they gave a presidential townhall and nobody came?
West Virginia’s landslide for Hillary Clinton approximates the same overwhelming support Asian Americans have had for the former first lady.
The primary last night is a reminder to nay saying media who want to crown Obama now.
This process should go on.
It also makes this weekend’s APIAVote event even more important.
While community leaders from all over the [...] -
Special to blog readers: This week’s “Emil Amok”
In the aftermath of the Tibet/China/Torch protests, one thing is clear:
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
All the way around–from City Hall to the Board of Supervisors, from the street protestors to the pro-China counter-protestors to the Olympic committee to China–no one has found an effective way to persuade the other to move [...] -
Asian men? White Women? See “Never Forever”
Gina Kim’s “Never Forever” opened in San Francisco at the Sundance Kabuki last Friday.
If you’ve got a hankering for an Asian male/Caucasian female love story on the big screen, check it out.
It’s the perfect date film for the New America.
For a longer take on the movie, see my column at www.asianweek.com.
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In Asian Week: He’s too short?
I read “Q” every week to get a sense of what otherwise reserved APAs are willing to get advice publicly, albeit anonymously.
The letter about being “too short” is a crack-up.
What exactly does she mean “too short”?
Does she take an egg-timer to bed?
As I have been in these kind of relationships, I know it’s not the [...]