NIKKEI VIEW: The Asian American Blog

Gil Asakawa’s Japanese American perspective on pop culture, media and politics

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Follow-up on University of Colorado’s “war against Asians” Campus Press column

February 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’ve never seen Denver’s Asian American community rally so quickly around an issue like they have around the botched satire, “If it’s war the Asians want… It’s war they’ll get“, that ran on the website of The Campus Press, the University of Colorado’s venue for budding journalists.
There’s been a blizzard of emails flying around [...]

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Tags: asian american · media

The ongoing conversation: authenticity in ethnic cuisine

February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Erin and I went out to eat tonight at Thai Basil, a very popular restaurant in southeast Denver. We had eaten there a couple of weeks ago with friends and enjoyed the food, so we decided to give it a shot on our own. The food was fine once again — we had chicken coconut [...]

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Tags: asian american · food · pop culture

When minorities reveal their own racism

August 18th, 2006 · No Comments

How sad that Andrew Young, a man I (and many others) have admired and thought of as a civil rights leader, reveals that deep-down inside he harbors racist feelings toward other minority communities.
The former Mayor of Atlanta and U.S. representative to the U.N. is African American.

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