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2 years

RISE: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. By Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Now available everywhere from Harper Books:

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1 year

Just want to make sure you saw the the googly eye.

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I freaking dare you to watch this and not feel something.

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May I remind you that Squid Game was Hoyeon’s FIRST ACTING GIG.

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OMG THIS KID. I AM CRYING.

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This maskless asshole refused to leave H Mart. So some ajummas had to get involved.

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I gotta say though, Hollywood patting itself on the back for Ke Huy Quan's comeback, as if Hollywood wasn't responsible for the circumstances that made him give up on his acting career in the first place, is pretty hilarious.

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This morning in Torrance, CA. “Go back to whatever fucking Asian country you belong in.”

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Come on! Can we not ruin the news of Ali Wong’s divorce with Wrong Asian racism?

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I do not know.

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And then you’ve got MSN over here with a photo that is neither Ali Wong nor Justin Hakuta. #wrongasian

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Cho Chang is trending. Over 20 years after she was introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, people are expressing irritation that JK Rowling lazily named her only East Asian character Cho Fucking Chang. Yes, we've been holding on to this one for a long time.

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Arden said "nah."

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Arden Cho was reportedly only offered half the salary presented to other actors that are returning for the ‘Teen Wolf’ movie so she decided to pass on the project. ()

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7 years

THIS IS HOW YOU IMPEACH A PRESIDENT. SOUTH KOREA DOES NOT PLAY.

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3 years

THE LINDA LINDAS

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1 year

There is NOBODY more happy to be in this room than Ke Huy Quan. #Oscars

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3 years

MVP: Ajumma ready to kick his ass while still holding a bunch of green onions.

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"Trump is going to fuck you. You fuckers need to leave. Fucking Asian piece of shit." Carmel Valley, California. The guy's name is apparently Michael Lofthouse. Sorry he ruined your tita's birthday. Source:

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6 years

When is the last time you saw two Asian romantic leads on the poster for a major Hollywood motion picture? #CrazyRichAsians

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7 years

Because white people are used to being referred to as "people."

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1 year

Fuck yeah! JOY RIDE. I am absolutely here for the Asian American women-led raunchy comedy.

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2 years

What do you mean “what are Filipinos”?

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4 years

This one’s name is Park So-dam.

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Excuse me while I fangirl but this one’s performance in PARASITE is truly unreal. Congrats on the well-deserved SAG win!!! ❤️

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I've honestly been waiting to see this moment my entire life. #Oscars

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Everybody. James Hong, 94 years old, is up on the stage holding an Academy Award. #Oscars

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2 years

The true achievement of Squid Game is how raggedy they made Jung-jae look.

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3 years

Square dancing ain’t shit.

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After seven decades in show business with over 600 film and television roles to his name -- perhaps the most credited Hollywood actor in history -- legendary actor James Hong is being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today -- at age 93.

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1 year

It’s already been changed, but why THE FUCK would you run this headline

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3 years

My favorite part of this video is when the Asian hostess tells the anti-masker “This is a mandate, sucker.” I did also like the part where he gets punched in the face.

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4 years

Awkwafina is the first woman of Asian descent ever to win a Golden Globe for lead actress In a comedy. #TheFarewell #GoldenGIobes

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4 years

All right. I’ve got “Dynamite” STUCK in my brain. #bts

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1 year

There is a level of glee in these “the shooter is Asian” replies that is just… go fuck yourself.

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5 years

Korean Americans tonight. #BTSxSNL

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“This is also for all the shoulders that I stand on, all that came before me, that look like me, and all who are going on this journey with me forward.”

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1 year

In case you want to cry again. #Oscars

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2 years

Here is video of Michelle Yeoh and Sandra Oh dancing to Whitney Houston. That is the tweet.

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4 years

Are you kidding me? We canceled every damn Lunar New Year celebration out of an abundance of caution. You can’t sit out this shitty frat party during a pandemic?

St. Patrick’s Day partiers hit the town over officials’ pleas amid coronavirus outbreak

Gov. J.B. Pritzker urged young people to take his calls for “social distancing” seriously, but many ventured out to take part in the festivities.

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6 years

Constance Wu, star of the number one movie in America. This is an absolute no-brainer.

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Who should be #SNLhost ? Let us know in the replies ⬇️

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Who is this? I will follow her.

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"IN MY HEART I KNEW IT WAS WRONG." Maaaaan, fuck this.

Jay Leno Apologizes for Decades of Jokes About Asians: ‘In My Heart I Knew It Was Wrong’

"I do not consider this particular case to be another example of cancel culture but a legitimate wrong that was done on my part," Leno says

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I’ve watched this a half dozen times now and I honestly can’t remember a more heartfelt, pitch-perfect acceptance speech that just nails it and gives you everything you need to feel. Get ready for Oscar night.

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3 years

"One of my sons asked me the other night if boys can be elected mayor of Boston. They have been, and they will again some day, but not tonight."

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Absolutely love Jamie Lee Curtis winning Best Supporting Actress. But let me have one more moment to say Stephanie Hsu gave the goddamn lightning fire of a performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. #Oscars

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“This is really dedicated to the Evelyns, the Waymonds, the immigrant parents who would kill themselves for us immigrant children, to give us a better life. This is dedicated to them.” #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce #CriticsChoiceAwards

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Michelle Yeoh won an Academy Award, but really, the Academy Awards won a Michelle Yeoh. #Oscars

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Aziz Ansari is the first Asian American actor to win a Golden Globe for television #GoldenGlobes . Haing S. Ngor won Best Supporting Actor for The Killing Fields in 1985.

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4 years

Another sighting! More racisms! “This is our country,” she says. No, lady. TORRANCE IS ASIAN COUNTRY.

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BTS. Tiny Desk Concert.

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It's happening: @BTS_twt x NPR Music.

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2 years

Easter Sunday starring @Jokoy . I know they couldn’t fit every Filipino American actor in this movie. But they almost did.

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1 year

This scene. #BEEF

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I can't even think straight right now. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE wins Best Picture. #Oscars

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6 years

"This not even remotely an actual Chinese proverb." - Chinese Proverb

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“Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb

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The cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once wins Best Ensemble at the SAG Awards — and uses their time to pay tribute THE LEGENDARY JAMES HONG. #SAGAwards

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My mom immigrated to the U.S. in 1973. She planted roots, built a career in nursing (now retired), and is the rock of a multi-generational Asian American family. Last week, she told me that for the first time in nearly five decades, she wondered if she should've stayed in Korea.

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64-year-old Asian woman was fatally stabbed while walking her dogs in Riverside, CA. Police are saying the attack was "was completely random." I'm sorry, but none of this is random.

Woman fatally stabbed while walking her dog in Riverside; suspect arrested

A suspect was arrested in the fatal stabbing of a woman who was walking her two dogs in the La Sierra neighborhood of Riverside Saturday morning, officials said. Officers responded to reports of a …

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"Whenever I'm around the music, around the food, I feel like I'm in my own skin." No, dude. No. That's not how this shit works.

[UPDATED] White woman says she feels Filipino, insists she's "transracial"

But that's not how this shit works.

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This was pretty much assumed, but now it's officially official. Take that, haters.

Kelly Marie Tran will be back in Star Wars: Episode IX

It's official.

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"Coming from an Asian background, my parents don't say things like 'I'm proud of you. But I received a text message from my papa daddy and it said 'I'm proud of you.' And I was like, SCREEN SHOT." - Mirai Nagasu, The Most Asian American Thing That's Ever Happened At The Olympics

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STREET JUSTICE, PO PO STYLE. In San Francisco, a man attacked a 70-year-old Asian woman. She fought back. He got taken away on a stretcher.

Witnesses: Elderly Asian Woman Assaulted; Fights Off Attacker In San Francisco

An elderly woman being attacked on Market St. in San Francisco Wednesday - the latest victim in a wave of attacks on Asians in the Bay Area - turned the tables on her assailant, leaving him with...

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Two Asian women -- 65 and 85 years old -- were stabbed in broad daylight while waiting for the bus in San Francisco. WHY. WHAT THE FUCK.

2 older Asian women stabbed in broad daylight while waiting for bus in downtown SF

According to officials, two Asian women in their 60s and 80s were at a bus stop when they were attacked. A witness says after the stabbing, the suspect did not run, that "he walked away like nothing...

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4 years

AHHHHHHHHHH.

Daniel Dae Kim And Randall Park Team For Asian American-Led Heist Film At Amazon Studios

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For the record, the chancellor was NOT attempting to speak an actual language. It was his racist, made-up approximation of an Asian language. Think "ching chong."

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Holy shit.

Grant Imahara, Host of ‘MythBusters’ and ‘White Rabbit Project,’ Dies at 49

Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show 'MythBusters' and most recently Netflix's 'White Rabbit Project,' has died. He was 49.

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4 years

Just want to remind you all that Mike Pence once penned an essay about Disney’s Mulan, calling it liberal propaganda promoting women in the military. It was 1998. He was 39 years old.

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Jeremy Lin is not messsing around.

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German radio show host has no idea who he's fucking with.

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A German radio show host has slammed K-pop boyband BTS following their MTV Unplugged show, making allegedly racist comments and infuriating fans all over Twitter.

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Call me crazy, but when the KKK endorses a candidate, your immediate inclination should be to vote for the other candidate. #ElectionNight

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This is some bullshit.

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People. Donnie Yen is turning 57 this year.

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Her family's like WHAT THE FUCK GRANDMA DON'T DRAG US INTO YOUR RACISM SHIT.

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Our girl's back, you haters. #StarWars #TheRiseofSkywalker

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Trotting out this Academy Awards statistic, hopefully for the last time: in 90+ years, more white actresses have won Oscars for playing Asians than actual Asian actresses have won. Period. #Oscars

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“Thank you everyone for rooting for me. I will be rooting for you.” #SAGAwards

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4 years

Oh, fuck this.

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BTS. Tiny Desk Concert. That’s the tweet.

BTS: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

The most popular band in the world performs three songs with a live band for Tiny Desk's quarantine series.

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Asians, let's stop going out of our way not to be associated with the other Asian in the room. You know what I mean. If I see you in public -- at the grocery store, at the coffee shop, at the goddamn Target -- I may not know you, BUT I KNOW YOU. I've got your back.

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52 years ago today, U.S. TV audiences were introduced to Bruce Lee as Kato on The Green Hornet. The night before, George Takei made his debut as Sulu on Star Trek. Kind of a momentous week in Asian American pop culture, and they probably didn't even know it.

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It is important to note that in Netflix's new Baby-Sitters Club series, NOBODY IS WEARING SHOES in Claudia's room.

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oh my lord look at this Tony Leung action figure

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IT’S GONNA BE MEI

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3 years

Fuck this shit. I can’t.

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Who the fuck does this. Just a few weeks after her husband passed away, a woman received this letter from a neighbor in their retirement community, Leisure World Seal Beach.

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Imunna disagree here and say Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States of America, is the most prominent Asian American political figure in the country.

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Gonna say this again. To the people making Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: there's still time to slip in a post-credits scene with Ke Huy Quan as grown-up Short Round. Just a knock on the door and there he is. "Dr. Jones?" Total fan service.

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When Harrison Ford announced the Best Picture winner, Ke Huy Quan was the first to run on stage and gave him a huge hug. #Oscars #reunion

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James Hong reminding everyone why this shit took so long.

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"unknown people"

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Steven Spielberg said the Netflix series "Squid Game" proves that "unknown people can star entire miniseries, can be in movies."

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Never forget. #DayOfRemembrance

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36-year-old Asian male stabbed in the back in NYC Chinatown in an unprovoked attack on the street. No robbery, no words exchanged.

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UPDATE: Victim's condition is deteriorating. He is likely to die.

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I say this as someone who has been doing this [gestures wildly at Asian America] for a long time: this week sucked shit.

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What in the hell is this @PurdueNorthwest ? Imagine attending your loved one’s graduation ceremony and having to hear this shit.

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Things You Can Count On: Hollywood can set a movie anywhere in the world, in any era of history, and always find a way to star a white guy.

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How the fuck is this not meant to “have any racial undertones”?

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Happy Filipino American History Month! Filipino Americans are the second-largest Asian American group in the nation, with a history in the continental U.S. that reaches back over 400 years.

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Half of the U.S. Olympic figure skating team is Asian American.

Look at these All-American skaters going to the Olympics

Karen Chen, Mirai Nagasu, Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou, Madison Chock, and Maia and Alex Shibutani.

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The worst part of what I'm feeling right now is that this was inevitable.

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Fun Fact: More white actresses have won #Oscars for playing Asians than actual Asian actresses have won. Period. #OscarsSoWhite

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My fear is not being the victim of a hate crime. My fear is being the victim of a hate crime and everyone else just standing around and thinking I probably deserved it.

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Let's say it, so it is said: Darren Criss is the first Filipino American actor to win an Emmy. Ever.

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