If you’re not Asian (American), not into professional basketball, or don’t have a number of Facebook-active Asian-American friends, you probably haven’t heard about Jeremy Lin. If you are Asian (American), into professional basketball, or have a number of Facebook-active Asian-American friends, there’s a high probability that you haven’t heard about anything but Jeremy Lin. J-Lin …
Asian-American history doesn’t get taught much in schools (and probably even less so in Texas), but May is Asian-American Heritage Month (in case you didn’t already know). And Jenn Fang has compiled ten facts you may not know about Asian-American history. Here are the first five: The first Asians whose arrival in America was documented …
A little gem on PostSecret the other day made me laugh: Thanks to Angry Asian Man for the link. As AAM says, “Never underestimate the hotness of an Asian man.”
Thanks to Big Phony for a beautiful and poignant song.
Thanks to my friend Duane, who passed this gem on to me. According to The Poker Bride, a new book by Christopher Corbett that traces the journey of many of the first Chinese immigrants in the American West, and reviewed by Melanie Kirkpatrick on Wall Street Journal, Before the transcontinental railroad, a ship could cross …