This is a disgusting bit of race-baiting. Someone claiming to support Ron Paul's bid for the GOP presidential nomination has posted an attack ad against Jon Huntsman -- who frankly isn't one of the top contenders -- that plays up Huntsman's connections to China. It begins with an ominous challenge asking whether the candidate represents "American values or Chinese?"...
My mom doesn't cook as much as she used to. She used to cook everything -- mostly Japanese food of course. She even used to make her own tofu. After my dad passed away in the early '90s she cooked for herself for years, making large portions of dishes to freeze and re-heat as meals for days. But lately she...
I can't think of a good reason for me to want to live in Arizona. Via Yahoo, here's news that a judge has ruled that the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican-American Studies course violates state law because it's "designed primarily for one ethnic group, promoting racial resentment and advocating ethnic solidarity instead of treating students as individuals." Part...
NOTE: UPDATE BELOW, ON DEC. 16 Lowe's this week backed out as an advertiser on the TLC network's superior reality TV show, "All-American Muslim," which follows the lives of five Muslim American families in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit that's home to the largest Mulsim population in the U.S. I visited Dearborn when I attended the 2011 convention in Detroit of...
This about takes the cake for lame-ass non-issues. WUSA9, Gannett's DC affiliate (and sister station to Denver's KUSA 9News, the top-rated station in Denver and home to Adele Arakawa, the Japanese American top-rated anchor), posted this video and text followup about the Obama girls' private school serving Asian food on Dec. 7: "Sidwell Friends School, Sasha and Malia Obama's School,...
UPDATE DEC. 13: NBC Nightly News reported last night that one of the women in the photo above has come forward, and said that the photo was not taken on Dec. 7, as has commonly been captioned every time it's been published for decades. Instead, Katherine Lowe, who's now 96 and still living in Honolulu, says she was at church...
Colorado's Laotian community woke up yesterday to a terrible tragedy: The morning news shows kept showing breaking news footage from their helicopters circling over a raging fire in Westminster, off 108th and Wadsworth. The Lao Buddhist Temple of Colorado was burning down, the flames and smoke engulfing the building in less than half an hour as firefighters poured water from...
It's such a cliche to point out that Japan is a contrast of old and new traditional and modern, but the comparison keeps coming up because it's true, and is a part of the country's cultural DNA. It would be a surprise not to see some people -- women, men, old, young, children -- dressed in traditional kimono at...
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