Asian American

It is a serene place to remember the JapanTown of Yesteryear — The JapanTown memmorial features some cherry trees. There were a number of early immigrants from Japan who settled in the Salt Lake Valley in the early 1900s. These were people who left their home country of Japan to find a better life in America, which was considered to be the…

By Louise Liu In the last two years alone, local and legislative efforts to implement book bans in classrooms and libraries have grown exponentially: According to PEN America, a free speech organization, there were 1,477 individual book ban cases in the fall 2022 semester alone — a 28% increase from…

Today is the last day of “Asian-American Pacific Islander” or “AAPI” month in 2023. Celebrating AAPI as a race category makes no sense for numerous reasons. As a result, many in the West have argued the category should be disaggregated or broken up into subcategories more AAPI members can get…

A Side-Splitting Journey into the Beats of K-Pop with my Inquisitive Grandfather — Who would’ve guessed my traditional Asian grandfather would develop such a profound interest in my K-pop obsession? To him, the culture of glossy music videos, slick dance routines, and heartthrob boy bands was as foreign as a Martian landscape. But curiosity got the better of him, and he ventured into…

I was a bit paranoid when I was a kid. It didn’t help that my dad was always telling me to watch my back everywhere that I went, putting up fake surveillance cameras in the window of my playroom so that nobody would steal the inflatable Santa on the front…

A lesson from Mahabharata for our collective voice to be heard How many people does it take for a voice to be heard and a message to be delivered? In a country of 350 million people, there are many voices clamoring to be heard. Many important messages being delivered including…

Ever since 2018 with the success of Crazy Rich Asians, which was the catalyst for the #GoldOpen Movement, the AAPI community has gradually enjoyed diverse and non-stereotypical representation in film & TV. — Who would have thought that the latter half of the 2010s began a boon of Asian representation in Western media, especially in Hollywood? These past five years have been a rollercoaster ride for AAPIs in the industry. In 2018, Crazy Rich Asians hit theaters across North America and it was…