Of Time and Fat

Time was you hardly ever saw a fat Asian. Nowadays I see more, though still not as often as fat people in general. The assumption ...

Connecting with Other Asian Americans

Once you learn to appreciate yourself in all your Asian American glory, you are ready to appreciate similar qualities in other Asian Americans. Shared experiences ...

Time to Get a New Mirror

Growing up in American society has the unfortunate effect of conditioning young Asians to look to Whites to set the standard. The inevitable effect is ...

Discarding Social Conditioning

You've recognized that becoming a secure Asian American isn't a birthright but a struggle, and that the struggle is shared by all Asian Americans as ...

Becoming a Secure Asian American (Pts. 1 - 4)

A reader asks: "How do you transition into being a self-confident Asian American if you currently think of yourself as a pathetic white-washed Asian, a ...

China Reaches Inflection Point Between Needy and Needed

It has been 31 years since Deng Xiaoping won acclaim as history's greatest pragmatist by declaring, "It does not matter if the cat is red ...

The Lou Jing Ripple Effect

What constitutes one's identity? This is the question that has recently come up when Lou Jing, a mixed-race Shanghainese woman, has become the focal point ...

The Race Factor in Asian American Life

An Ohio football coach was convicted of setting fire to his own house and, presumedly, spray painted racial slurs on his own car to lend ...

Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

I'm sitting here in the basement of my childhood at the precipice of nostalgia. It's not exactly the basement of the house I grew up ...

9/11 Shows Need for More Social Intelligence

Adding to our social intelligence assets overseas may prove a better national security investment than building up our arsenal.

Occupy Wall Street Presents China with Mao Moment

China's leadership may be taking comfort in the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading across the globe.

Raj Rajaratnam, Amy Chua and Enjoying Our Freedom

Thinking that we have to earn our freedom through success is the kind of backward thinking that imprisons so many of us.

Perpetuating Bi-Lingual Asian Americans

This millennium's key cultural bridge must be strengthened by perpetuating our bilingualism in our children.

Third-Order Information Produces Modern Superstitions

The pervasiveness of speculative third-order information is creating a neurotic and debilitating fixation on remote possibilities.

Mourning the Death of Another Summer

The passing of summer fills us with regret like the passing of no other season.

Cal Bake Sale Exposes Dated GOP Thinking

Cal's Republican students' symbolic bake-sale exposes their party's woeful disconnect with the socio-economic realities of our era.

Defining America's Next Great Role

Our active engagement in world affairs can determine the path that will be taken by an ascendant China.

China Holds Key to Global Financial Crisis

China can make two money moves to dissolve the chains of doubt keeping the world shackled to the brink of another plunge.

Using Real Asian Snacks to Lose Weight

Letting yourself OD on Asian snacks may be the only way to get control of your calories.

Jobless Data Hides Great Divide in Digital Economy

The jobless rate hides a big gulf between those who are integrated into the digital age and those tarrying in the industrial age.

Putting Tolerance Above Math and Science Skills

Let's stop focusing so much on math and science skills and focus more on preserving our tolerant social climate.

Confusion Befuddles American Voters

The time has come again for Barack Obama to awaken American voters from the spell of new Pied Pipers.

Going from Fat Superpower to Fit Superpower

Is there a future for a fat superpower in a world that's squeezing into skinny jeans?

Noda Win Dims Hope for Japan Revival

A rare opportunity for Japan to bring about real change has been blunted by another charade of democracy.

Losers Redefine Nerds and Geeks

Their recent association with Asians is giving two old terms of scorn new caché among Americans who value competence and individuality.

U.S. Roads Abound with Metaphors for Life

We could have a Jasmine Revolution in our own nation if we embrace short-sighted, self-centered demagogues.

China's Next Leader Offers Hope for Future

China's likely progress toward an open, even democratic society is apparent in the character of Hu's successor.

Internet Replaces Democracy As Political Force

Last week's Iowa Straw Poll in Ames and the internet afterbuzz is likely to short-circuit the intended democratic process.

Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists

Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our own homegrown economic and social fundamentalists.

Standing Up As an Asian American

Outbursts at perceived racial slights can be unpleasant, but can also be moments that affirm universal human dignity.

Asia Emerges As the New West for Ambitious Americans

At long last the American mind is ready to see Asia as the new land of opportunity.

China Becomes Target of Another US Presidential Race

2012 May Launch New Stage for Civilization

Immigrants Who Perpetuate Inter-Asian Animosities