Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "Happy Cakeday, r/AAdiscussions! Today you're 6" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "Happy Cakeday, r/AAdiscussions! Today you're 5" by u/AutoModerator

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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• "Research Survey on Asian American Experiences at Work since COVID-19" by u/orgpsych_researcher
• "Help us investigate how hate is affecting Asian American communities during the pandemic" by u/publicintegritynews
• "Good life" by u/Evening_Shirt

Hello! We are doing a study on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected treatment in the workplace for individuals who hold an Asian-American identity.

The details of the study are below:

Asian Americans who are or were employed after COVID-19 are invited to participate in a research study conducted by the Management and Organizations Department at SMU Cox School of Business.

If you are an Asian American who had any negative experience at work (even minor ones) since COVID-19, we want to hear from you and learn what it takes to stop such negative experiences!

The study consists of three surveys, each taking about 5 minutes.

Eligible participants will receive compensation of $5 for their participation. They will also be entered into a $50 drawing after their participation.

You will also have the option to take part in an additional interview portion to the study. Those who are selected and participate in the interview portion of the study, will receive compensation of $10 for their participation.

For more information about the study, please click on the link below:

https://smu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a2xvTTVQLWYCZ3D

Feel free to share this email with others who may be interested in taking part in this study.

If you have questions about the study, please send an e-mail to christinal@smu.edu.

Thank you!

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The Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative newsroom in Washington D.C., is looking into instances of hate related to the coronavirus. We’re asking people who’ve experienced a hate-related incident to fill out our form. These answers will help our newsroom identify trends and solutions that will lead to more robust reporting.

We won’t publish any submitted information or share it outside of our newsroom without your consent. Any questions? Reach out to our Audience Engagement Editor Kristine Villanueva through our page u/publicintegritynews or at kvillanueva@publicintegrity.org.

https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/help-us-investigate-covid-19-related-hate-incidents/

If you are 18+, Vietnamese or Vietnamese-American, born in the U.S., and have at least one parent who is a Vietnamese refugee, please consider participating in my research study for a chance to win a $25 gift card to Amazon. If not, please share with others you think may be interested. Thank you! Please click the link below to learn more about the study and/or participate in the survey: https://tnstateu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6ietQBnBFTsz2Kh

Hi everyone,

As part of my senior year research, I am surveying Asian Americans about Asian American lead actors in Hollywood. I'd love to see your input. The survey is only 20 questions long and won't take more than 10 minutes.

Here is the link https://gmuchss.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bQMchO7bMfbOHlP?fbclid=IwAR1dSPQgE7YADn3bSPQ-zmMSCxFGoMmTctl35jbH1uGa2IWH_zAm_7Y7d6s

Thank you!

Remember how that racist OC Lawyer (https://nextshark.com/oc-lawyer-ignatius-draws-flack-for-comparing-crazy-rich-asians-with-negative-racial-stereotypes/) posted about one of JustKiddingFilms' YouTube videos? Well they made a video in response basically supporting her:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=-N2XeqLZvTM

It reminds me of a post that I saw on JK's subreddit:

https://np.reddit.com/r/justkiddingfilms/comments/8x09f4/jk_crew_phony_racists/

The OP in that post talks about how JK claims to be pro-Asian American but they're actually super racist towards certain Asian groups while putting other Asian groups on a pedestal. Basically JK supports elitism for certain Asian groups and divisiveness in the larger Asian American community.

This video is a perfect example of what that OP was talking about. The OC lawyer goes on a racist rant against Asians without specifying any nationality but the JK crew (minus Steve) ends up just bashing Chinese people in specific the entire video. At the same time Joe preemptively defends Japanese people and says the racist stereotypes are all true for Chinese people but completely false for Japanese people.

How can we stop these guys from further dividing the Asian American community and spreading negativity towards certain Asian groups?

I know that no one is going to like this subject but let me proceed with my idea.

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The notion of Asian-American is not that of a single continent's descendants, living in the USA. It's about a race of ppl, which in this case, means ppl of Altaic races and linguistic origins.

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And thus, the ppl today, known as Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc, are a completely separate category of ppl than ppl from India.

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What Indians are, is a mix of Persian (sometimes called ancient Aryan, not Hitler's boys) and Dravidian (yes, much like Africans). And thus, they're basically a branch of ppl from the former Soviet Central Asia a/o the middle east. And in America, many those aforementioned groups are white, unless they have dark skin, in which case, they're black or hispanic.

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Realize this, the Boston Marathon bomber is considered a white Muslim terrorist, not an Asian one. If he were Indonesian, let's say, it would be an Asian-American issue as oppose to a Soviet one.

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And growing up in America, aside from science & engineering clubs, do the "Altaics" and the "half-Persians" really get along? You see, there's a racial divide and as we all know, race matters in this country. I've heard negatives, from both sides of the fences, being hurdled as each other. And even my big grocery stores, they've separated the Indian from the Asian spices and produce.

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Dealing with the realities of the situation, the category of Asian-American should be East Asian only.

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Let Indians, Persians, and the Arabs work out their own categories.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5nSoWkT8Hs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4532818/videoplayer/vi1915926041?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1

I wanted to post the trailer to this film because I had never heard of it before now. It features an Asian leading man in a romantic setting and an AMWF couple in South Carolina during WWII. Since the film only did $6,763 in the box office ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_and_the_Rising_Sun_(film) ) I am guessing that most of you haven't seen it either. Those box office numbers are shockingly small. Does anyone know why the film did so badly at the box office? It shows that we need to buy more tickets to support these films with Asian leading men depicted in a positive light. We need to end the Hollywood belief that films with AM leading men automatically won't do well in the box office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5HSsrjoedk

https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi3843275545?ref_=ttvi_vi_imdb_1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6696736/?ref_=vi_md_ti

Recently it seems like there has been a few more but still rare positive portrayals of westernized AMs but I can't think of any positive portrayals of a FOB AM in western media. Australia is known to have extreme racism towards Asians but this show looks like it may give a more positive and rounded portrayal of a FOB international student AM. It looks like it will have an AMWF couple between Molly Daniels (Asher) and Ronny Chieng too. What do you guys think?

"The 100" is a CW show that is surprisingly woke in certain regards. In the Season 5 finale, the token Asian character Monty Green (Christopher Larkin) and his romantic partner Harper McIntyre (Chelsey Reist) have a hapa son named Jordan Green (Shannon Kook) and save humanity by charting a course for humanity from a dead earth to a new viable planet. The character Monty Green was a boring stereotypical Asian nerd character in the beginning of the show but eventually grew to be a more interesting character. This recent episode with his major role at the end was one of the most positive depictions of an Asian male in American television in recent memory and had one of the only AMWF couples on American television.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/07/the-100-season-5-finale-postmortem-new-planet-monty/

Can we compile a list of other positive representations of Asians in mainstream TV (e.g. Steven Yuen's portrayal of Glenn in "The Walking Dead")?

Half-Chinese actress Chloe Bennet who changed her name from "Chloe Wang" because "Hollywood is racist" and who claims to be an Asian rights activist but is dating the known racist Logan Paul. For example, here she is running an AAPI activism group

https://runaapi.org/#crew

She's also criticized Steve Harvey and Gigi Hadid for anti-Asian comments, but that doesn't stop her from giving Logan Paul a free pass and defending him... The hypocrisy is clear...

Now see these articles more about her and Logan Paul:

Read this one first and contrast it with the ones below... https://nextshark.com/chloe-bennet-twitter-logan-paul/

https://www.wetheunicorns.com/youtubers/logan-paul/chloe-bennet-dating-fan-reaction/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5946763/Who-Chloe-Bennet-Logan-Pauls-girlfriend-Agents-S-H-E-L-D-star-revealed.html

https://www.obsev.com/celeb/logan-pauls-new-girlfriend-chloe-bennet.html

What do you guys think? Should we remove her as a spokesperson for Asian Americans since it's clear that she is disingenuous? How can we stop her from marketing herself as pro-Asian to boost her own career while actually undermining pro-Asian efforts by supporting known racists like Logan Paul?

so i cant keep to not drinking and abstaining free from alchohol i wonder if i actually am addicted to blacking out i've lost all my relationships over drink but i still havent learnt is there any advice anyone can give me ?

Anyone here interested in discussing options/possibilities for an Asian/Asian-American (Christian) theology?

Hi everyone! I'm an undergraduate from the UK and I'm writing my dissertation on the effects of Asian representation in the media on second generation Asian diaspora groups.

Representation in Western media has always been a prevalent topic and I feel that Western-born Asians suffer the most from the lack of representation. My survey aims to gather the thoughts of others to form a better opinion on the importance of Asian representation and how it has changed in recent years.

I would be grateful if you could complete this short survey for me. I require you to identify as a Western-born Asian/second generation Asian diaspora for this survey. http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Z4M2G/

Thank you for your time!

Whether it's China, Japan, Mongolia, etc. Do you believe in promoting "diversity" in your country of blood ancestry? Take Japan for example. The population is almost exclusively composed of ethnic Japanese (98.5%). Foreigners are 1.5% of the population.

Japan only accepts a handful of refugees every year (20 per year vs. 1 million or more in Germany).

Is the homogeneity of Japan a problem? For example, should Japan allow 1 million plus muslim refugees every year like germany does? Should Japan accept 10+ million hispanics who are seeking a higher quality of life?

Much is made of the demographic trend in the USA which will soon lead to a white minority based on current trends. Should Japan become majority non Japanese?

If diversity is good for the USA which once had a 90% white population, shouldn't Japan diversity racially, religiously, etc? What are the benefits of diversifying Japan? More variety in ethnic cuisine? More diversity in religious traditions and therefore more choice? More choice of dating partners (not just japanese or white tourists)?

What would the cons be? More political conflict? Should whites, hispanics, muslims, blacks etc hold positions of power, even be elected prime minister of japan?

Speaking as an Asian American female here...I grew up in a middle-class Italian/Irish suburb and I was the only Asian girl in my grade. For guys, there were about 300 white guys and 2-3 Asian guys. So looking at the odds, it would be pretty hard to confine myself to dating within my race - what are the odds that those few Asian guys would be the ones who are compatible with me or even want to date me?

In the end, I did marry an AA guy who I love very much.

But in my opinion as an AF - It is hard enough already to find somebody who you are compatible with...further limiting yourself by race, is crazy ( unless you perhaps live in CA or Hawaii). Having the same color of hair and eyes and skin, does not mean you are meant to be partners for eachother!! It is what's inside that matters.

Asian guys need to understand the fact that we constitute 2-5% of the population in most US states...and not bash AFs for dating some interesting people from the other 95%! And they themselves need to be more open to dating girls from other races. IMHO.

I see a lot of Asian women bulk buying in American Outlets. I work at one in southern california. I'm just curious why they buy so many all at once and how do they sell them so quickly? They come in and buy ten purses and come back and say they want 10 more because they've already sold them at double price! Where are they selling them at and why are they in such high demand?

My parents divorced when I was very young so I really only know my mom's family history. I was born in Taiwan and came to the U.S. when I was five years old. When people ask me where I'm "originally from," I always hesitate on whether I should tell them I'm Taiwanese or Chinese. One reason is that many Americans do not know where Taiwan is and sometimes I get mistaken for Thai even though I don't look Thai at all. The main reason for my hesitation is because my maternal (and I think my paternal) grandparents are from China and immigrated to Taiwan in the 1950s. I think we are Han Chinese ethnically. The Han Chinese are the dominant ethnic group in Taiwan today, but sometimes I feel conflicted about saying I'm Taiwanese because I'm not a Taiwanese aboriginal. But then again, most Americans aren't Native Americans but I still consider myself American. Is three generations enough to become Taiwanese? Should I just continue to tell people that I'm Chinese but I'm from Taiwan or should I pick one? I know that it's ultimately my choice how I identify but I would appreciate any insight, especially if you come from a similar situation. Thanks in advance everyone!

On the contrary, they want to perpetuate it further by promoting Asian guys to be queer or homosexual. They know that Asian men being stereotyped as emasculated and effeminate makes them less attractive, so it will be harder for Asian men to date out and they will have no choice but to be providers for Asian women. Asian feminists invented the rhetoric about "Toxic Asian Masculinity" as a way to police Asian men who prefer to be traditionally masculine, and they will try to silence any opposition to their ideas by accusing others of being misogynistic and homophobic. It's all part of their agenda (conscious or not) to keep Asian men under control by Asian women.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asianamerican/comments/4wajyn/twitter_townhall_on_hypermasculazns/

The moderators of /r/AsianAmerican shadowbanned me from that thread (and downvoted me before removing my posts, apparently). Clearly, they don't want the idea of "toxic Asian masculinity" discussed in certain ways. Let's talk about it here!

Twitter Discussion: https://twitter.com/hashtag/HyperMasculAZNs

Facebook Announcment: https://www.facebook.com/events/157479374681294/

The absurdity of Asian social justice warriors knows no bounds. First of all don't give me the bullshit that the white man is the symptom of all my problems. No my friends it is the Asian mans fault for why we are in this predicament. It's the Asian mans fault they choose to be followers instead of leaders. I've been reading /r/hapas, /r/Asianamerican, and /r/asianmasculinity. What's with the fascination of black worship in this pseudo fight to fight the white oppressors? I'm extremely well aware that it's disgusting that a significant portion of the Asian American population pedestals white culture. Well then don't jock strap other groups such as African Americans in retaliation from white worship. It is seriously absurd to me.

Some of you urban youth worshipers need to look in the mirror for once and look at your face. You can see that you're not black. Stop trying to integrate into American popular culture. I'm talking mostly to the fellas here. Don't be a clown. You're clowning yourself copying African American fashion, music, culture, and talk. It's the same in regards to the white pedestalling.

Why is the Asian American group the race of the cucks? Is it the race of wanting to fit in. Even in activism they want to fit in with mainstream activism. It's why so many of them internalize the black struggle in their hearts and have the black lives matter in high esteems. They have internalized western libtard mentality as their own. Even though the black community generally doesn't give two shits what the Asians do. Instead of following grow a pair and think for yourself.

The solution is instead of following other subcultures pioneer you're own that is exclusive to Asians. In the likely hood that you can increase Asian peoples soft power and be in place of higher authorities to influence pop culture.

https://np.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/4tysf3/how_asian_americans_contribute_to_white_supremacy/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGqa7h2nvI1/

They are passing around some video like this, when arguing about the Yulin dog eating festival. Which as you can clearly see is not Chinese. I don't think it is even Asian.

They have seriously gotten to the point that they think all non-whites are alike.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/4ii1uh/these_mods_are_horrible_anyway_to_vote_them_out/?ref=share&ref_source=link

And sent to me via pm, courtesy of /u/navathrow

https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/4igqt5/toxic_asian_femininity_and_why_asian_identity/

post was shadowbanned from the sub by none other than yours truly. I guess azn females matter moar?

Remember when the sub was all about anti-tone policing and anti-censorship? Pepperidge farm remembers

My asian brothers, we have failed ourselves yet again, much as we have with r/asianmasculinity

I would start my own sub and mod it, but since I don't come to reddit that often, trolls would totally have their way with it if someone doesn't manage it frequently. Thoughts?

A place for free speech and asian males that were banned from asianmasc for not being PC right?

Sigh...why do all these themed subs eventually turn into hollow PC echo chambers? Just look at the amount of removed posts on any trending post within that sub.

Anything criticizing Asian females is removed by the ultimate white knight shadowsweep followed with a pathetic whiny warning "pleez don't insult Asian female senpai, post removed no warning ban!"

Asianmasc2.0 except this time it's for Asian females

Edit: and here they come to downvote brigade me lel