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10 Reasons Why Identity Matters to Asian Americans

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Spotting Race Bores

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Sacred Sexuality

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Thoughts for Sleepless Nights

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Asian American Woman's Burden

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What Those Chinese Tattoos Really Say

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Unsticking Japan

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Fellatio, Fong and Questions 27 and 28

Big American Misconceptions About Asians

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Women Without Men

The China Dilemma

Untying the Gordian Knot of North Korea

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Obama, China and an Emerging New Reality

Asian American Life 36 Years Later

The End of Cars As We Know Them

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Time to Get a New Mirror

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Discarding Social Conditioning

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

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Sexualizing Homosexuality

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What the Global Power Shift Means for Asian Americans

We are witnessing one of history's great power shifts. I'm ...

The Lou Jing Ripple Effect

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Asian Men and Interracial Dating

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Why I Love Los Angeles

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The Race Factor in Asian American Life

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The Barbarity Hidden in the 'The Cove'

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Rising Asian American Stars

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The U.S. Open and Asian Tennis Parents

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Revisiting My Childhood : A Weekender Back East

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Asian Reality Stars Shine Bright

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The Brainy Bunch, Anyone?

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Asian Students Under Assault

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Asian Southerners

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Dear Will Smith

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Putting Aymmetric Warfare Back on Our Side

Cutting our ground troops in Afghanistan may reflect key advances ...

Standing Up As an Asian American

Outbursts at perceived racial slights can be unpleasant, but can ...

Asia Emerges As the New West for Ambitious Americans

At long last the American mind is ready to see ...

A Mechanism to Break Federal Budget Deadlocks

The current debt-ceiling deadlock cries out for a mechanism to ...

Rice Color, Skin Color and the New Cultural Color Code

In a whole-grain world Asian Americans are becoming the new ...

China's Rising Testosterone Level and Its New Voice

The world will have to get used to hearing China's ...

What U.S.-China Military Ties Mean for the World

A true partnership with China promises the best chance to ...

Exploiting the Short Memories of American Voters

The GOP is once again betting big on the short ...

Finding Our Own Personal Independence Day

The 4th of July takes the author back to the ...

Tragedy of the Fanatical Preference for Sons

Asia's impulse to amplify the gender imbalance is ensuring both ...

Threat from America's Economic Fundamentalists

Today's biggest threat to our collective futures comes from our ...

Asian American Near-Thanksgiving List

Thanksgiving is more than just a time to gather with ...

Little Emperor Syndrome and China's Me Generation

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Korean Mishaps, Obama Failure Among G20 Summit Ironies

The Seoul G20 summit was supposed to be a chance ...

Asian American Consumer Clout Over Premium Brands

No one in California will be surprised to learn that ...