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u/sueltos · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

Was your humanitarian cruise in Haiti by chance? I'm reading the book The Big Truck that went by and he talks a bit about the US 'occupation' humanitarian mission post earthquake and how soldiers where not told when they would be done with the humanitarian mission. He cites letters to families that show their doubt in the mission itself.

Good book so far. Highly recommended. I'd say getting into aid is a lot like getting into the military. You have all these idealistic thoughts about serving for a greater good... and then you realize the entire industry is totally whacked. I think it's changing though. Slowly but surely.

I understand getting special treatment. I know you can only get into the USOs in airports if you're in uniform. Those are like Delta Sky Clubs. I'm a member of the Sky Clubs and they honestly make air travel way more tolerable. You're treated like a king! Free drinks free food. Not too bad. And the way I see it, I never have to pay for a drink in an airport (granted, I paid upfront for those drinks) but I will drink wayyy more drinks than the member fee.

Plus the networking that goes on in those places is great. I'd imagine the USOs would be similar. A good place to relax sit down and meet other members of the military who may totally agree with you.

TL;DR. Read The Big Truck that went by. Uniformed military may just be like me and trying to get perks of USOs/Delta Sky Club to relax a bit.

u/dorosee · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

OP, if you are looking for a really incredible book by a korean-am author, i recommend nora okja keller's fox girl. it is INCREDIBLY dark but honest and gorgeous and terrifying. i loved and hated it when i read it for an asian american lit class and to this day almost 8 years later i can't stop thinking about it. (https://amzn.com/0142001961)


esme weijun wang - border of paradise (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26196482-the-border-of-paradise)
^^CANNOT recommend this enough. it is LIFE CHANGING. haunting beautiful devastating modern gothic, mixes language and culture like nothing i've read before.

celeste ng - everything i never told you (https://amzn.com/0143127551)

annie choi - happy birthday or whatever (https://amzn.com/0061132225)

andrew x. pham - catfish and mandala (https://amzn.com/0312267177)

lisa see - snow flower and the secret fan (https://amzn.com/0812980352)

u/notbidoofin · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

I've heard that The Making of Asian America: A History is a good book primer on the Asian American perspective (or history, at least).

For perspective, I'd recommend news publications like NBC Asian America and blogs like Reappropriate and Angry Asian Man.

There are definitely a few good ones that I'm forgetting (and other blogs that I'm ignoring because of their lower quality), but chances are, once you delve into the community, you'll find more and more resources, especially those that focus on specific Asian American communities. However, I do have to mention that these blogs are from a more liberal/left perspective.

Hopefully that helps as a starting point! Thank you for your patience and sincerity! :)

u/Red_Desi · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

>How about as defined by literal North Korean refugees?
>
>Brought to you by the CIA shills over at the Washington Post.

Defector stories can't be trusted. That's coming from imperialist media. And WaPo is hardly trustworthy when it comes to railing against US imperialism. They've been pro-war for well over a decade including Iraq.

>Yeah, TIL Rhee Syngman is just as bad as Kim Ilsung who appropriated Japanese imperial propaganda to portray himself and his family as divine rulers.

Yes Syngman Rhee was a literal fascist who committed genocide and supported US imperialism as a means to gain a foothold in Korea. Can you find any firsthand evidence from any actual piece from the DPRK that states they're divine rulers of any sort?

>TIL the United States is literally worse than North Korea.

Glad I could teach you something.

>By the way, how does your precious revolution against the bourgeoisie (you should spell your own buzzwords correctly) stack up against the communist elite who live large in the west and send their kids to the top European boarding schools in the dirty, imperialist west?

Yeah those stores are for people who come from overseas. There's a reason why they're cash only. It's almost as if the DPRK has faced embargoes and sanctions for literal decades keeping it at the position of a developing nation and not the home of the absolute finest institutions in the world compared to nations that have been built on literal Nazi gold. Excuse me for making a spelling error, but a word that's been used for literally over a century in mainstream Western nations is hardly a "buzzword."

>I guess some people are just more equal than others, comrade.

The end goal is to end that system. I suppose supporting inherent inequality is much easier for you though seeing as how the vast majority of Asian Americans are wealthy and come from well off families.

>So I guess concentration camps are fine as long as you hate America.

From that article, "The report is based on testimony from North Korean defectors." Well as I've demonstrated earlier DPRK defectors are hardly reliable witnesses or evidence to anything significant so without actual material proof (we as leftists tend to hold historical materialism to a much higher regard.

>Dude, you're a tankie.

I don't know how liberals got a hold of this word but it's hilarious to see. Define "tankie" if you would.

u/winnilourson · 10 pointsr/asianamerican

> Now that I'm on the other side as a medical student, I've seen studies that show patients prefer physicians of their own race[6] . From personal experience interacting with patients, communication is easier and a higher level of care can be provided if the provider understands the patient's culture.
>

I don't know much about the field, but from what I understand, research points out that understanding the culture is primordial for health care service delivery. it's just easier if the patients and the medical practitioner are of the same ethnic background. It also happens to Asian too, you should read this book book by Anne Fadiman, its an eye opener.

u/MsNewKicks · 1 pointr/asianamerican

I got into the stock market back in high school (simulation, of course) thanks to a teacher that was active in it and had a sort of unofficial club. Once I started working and having my own money, I started to dabble in it.

It really depends on your plans for the money (retirement, first house, etc) and your timeline/horizon. My money is for retirement so I have a very long outlook and can ride out stocks and their volatility. I also participate in my company stock purchase so every paycheck I'm picking up shares of AAPL without having to do anything plus avoiding broker fees.

My personal preference skews towards blue chips that pay dividends with some high risk/high reward stocks in the mix. For international, I'm not familiar enough so I have those in an international index fund.

EDIT: The book that I read in the beginning is called What Works On Wall Street and while it's always a volatile and changing market/trends, it's still a good read.

u/[deleted] · 3 pointsr/asianamerican

If you're interested in the history of Ivy League admissions specifically, there's a pretty comprehensive book on it called The Chosen. You can also check out The Price of Admissions which explains how the system's main purpose is protecting the class status of rich whites.

u/astronomy8thlight · 4 pointsr/asianamerican

I know what you're saying. I would attribute a lot of this to (1) parental influence and (2) model minority effects.

OP, you would probably really enjoy this graphic novel by the great Gene Luen Yang: https://www.amazon.com/American-Born-Chinese-Gene-Luen/dp/0312384483

u/morningbelle · 1 pointr/asianamerican

I haven't written about Fanon in my own work, but I teach him from time to time. I too am Filipino! I think studying what I study has been an indirect way of exploring the world I see around me as an American born to parents from the Philippines. I haven't read his work, but a Fil-Am psychologist has written a book called Brown Skin, White Minds. Feel free to PM should you want to chat more on academic matters.

u/metsuken · 19 pointsr/asianamerican

> They can hide things from their own people, not really from the rest of the world. Again, the rest of the world is fully aware of how terrible it is in that country.

That wasn't my point? My point was they deflect attention away from human rights abuses by playing the western media.

> This reply doesn't seem to make any sense. Could you elaborate?

Here's what you said:

> Portraying this as about the movie and not about Americans getting pushed around and being told what they can and cannot do by NORTH KOREA is dishonest.

Which suggests that you think a private company pulling a movie is the same as nation states affecting each other. Unless by American you mean Sony in which case Sony is not even an American company, it's Japanese.

> Please, read what I'm saying and respond to that. You're making points here that are irrelevant. Stuff I never disagreed with or commented on.

I did. Honestly, you didn't make much of a point beyond claiming this is about North Korea "censoring" Americans (it's not) and refusing to believe that the DPRK is a self-aware government that issues global statements as calculated propaganda pieces.

> That is a stretch, to put it mildly. The West engages in this kind of satire all the time.

Because that's exactly how North Korea wants the West to spin it.

> We are still fully aware of the reality. Do you really think Team America came out and people stopped knowing that North Korea was a shit hole? Did the Dictator movie with Sacha Baron Cohen make people think the Middle East was a great place to live?

I never claimed those things. My answer is pretty clear in the stuff you quoted. All the human rights abuses and police state business is swept into the subconscious because the first things that people associate North Korea with are stupid memes and movie villain statements, making them see the regime as a parody of inhumanity that is too ridiculous to be believed.

I'm not interested in trying to change your mind because. It's clear you haven't done any serious research about North Korea. If you really want to get into this, I can start quoting experts on North Korea. To quote Dr. Andrei Lankov, "North Korea is not a bomb." Despite what US officials and even what uninformed academics believe, it is not insane. They know exactly what the response from the West will be when they make these statements.

> Police brutality is something that has been going on for decades to Americans. It reached a boiling point. It always strikes closer to home when it's happening to you. Which easily explains why no one takes to the streets when foreigners are getting tortured or North Koreans are suffering.

Didn't take very much to invade Iraq either, if you want to use that argument. Nor did it take much to start committing US resources to assisting Syrian rebels.

In comparison, there's far less pressure placed on our leaders to deal with North Korea, despite the fact that NATO-friendly allies inhabit the region.

> I wish you would be more intellectually honest. The dishonesty you've just tried here is incredible.

Oh boy.

> Do you really think all 914 million results are about the movie? "the interview" is a pretty fucking common set of words. Guess what? From the 3rd page on, many of the results have nothing to do with the movie at all.

Okay, good point. Google results for The Interview North Korea still nets 163 million. That's nearly twice the number of the CIA torture reports.

> Any article about the issue at all is going to mention the title of the movie. That says nothing about whether the people care about the movie or about being told what they can and cannot watch by North Korea.

If reddit is any indication, this has been a constant talking point for the last few days while the torture report was a flash in the pan.

> Please, try again. I'm sure you're capable of doing better. You don't seem like a total idiot in your posts, but you do seem very agenda driven and dishonest.

Dealing with assholes is not my strong suit. Statements like this don't help.

I was already questioning whether I should have even responded to you in the first place because I recognized you from other threads about North Korea. Just in case you delete this comment:

> Very little sympathy.
> You. Can. Not. Change. North. Korea.
> Especially as one person. Unless you are Kim Jong Un.
> Going there does no one any good. You go there to satisfy your own personal feelings. When you get caught and ransomed like this it only enhances the North Korean position and reduces everyone elses'. Countries have to bend over backwards to retrieve you and give in the NK's blackmail. Meanwhile, North Korea gets to use you as whatever. Hold you up as a spy. Get food and aid to return your dumb self to your actual country.
> What good did you do any body with those acts?

This is about the most dismissive, armchair, straight up asshole things I've ever seen on this website and yet I'm sad to say I'm not shocked you got upvoted for it.

I have personal friends who were saved from concentration camps in the most hellish country on Earth because of people who infiltrated the country. The defectors of the Black Market Generation are raising global awareness and reason they're able to do this in the first place is because of people who entered the country to get them out. North Korea has had to adjust its internal propaganda because of foreigners infiltrating the country and smuggling media from the outside world. Now, experts project that the regime may not last beyond the next 25 years. All this is thanks to the work of the people you're mocking.

But I guess it's easier for you to sit there like a smug prick and tell me that the people who risked their lives to save my friends from a life of torture, starvation, and oppression went there to satisfy their "own personal feelings". I guess you know better than the people who have spent years studying North Korea and devising ways to dismantle the Kim regime, who agree that constant infiltration is the key to breaking down the DPRK.

I could say fuck you but it's Christmas Eve tomorrow. I'll be honest, I'm pretty pissed at what you wrote, but I sincerely hope this makes you examine yourself and consider that maybe what you said is probably the most dickish thing I've read in this sub.

u/Smoke_Me_When_i_Die · 1 pointr/asianamerican

I really enjoyed Catfish and Mandala by Andrew X. Pham. Apparently the guy just went and left his job in the aerospace industry to go on a journey from Mexico all the way up the Pacific Northwest and over to Japan and Vietnam.

u/whats_a_puma · 5 pointsr/asianamerican

I enjoyed reading [No-No Boy] (http://www.amazon.com/No-No-Classics-Asian-American-Literature/dp/0295955252) for a class in college, one of the few books I kept after graduating. It's about Japanese-American internment, loyalty, what it means to be American or "assimilated", etc.

I don't read too much AA literature (or any literature, for that matter...), so take my recommendation with a pinch of salt, but it was really refreshing just to be able to read something I could really relate to about immigrant/children of immigrant experiences.

u/kentuckyfriedeagle · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

Recommend Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World and Breaking The Bamboo Ceiling to understand and adjust for differing perceptions of cultural communication styles.

u/ItAintAJTho · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

No problem, that's what this subreddit is about! If you're interested in reading more about how Asians fit in race relations in America in the context of other racial groups, I'd recommend Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank Wu. I admittedly just started reading it a few days ago, but I've never had a book speak to me more. The first chapter instantly connected with my experience.

u/Consciouswrdsbt · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

this book has a captivating tone but wasn't able to finish it yet

and this book provides perspective in dealing with and understanding foreign culture in a medical setting

u/cricket_monster · 5 pointsr/asianamerican

> What is a "police state" please define that using historical materialist evidence that isn't literal CIA propaganda.

How about as defined by literal North Korean refugees?

Brought to you by the CIA shills over at the Washington Post.

> Which border? The one propped up by Americans using the fascist Syngman Rhee as a puppet?

Yeah, TIL Rhee Syngman is just as bad as Kim Ilsung who appropriated Japanese imperial propaganda to portray himself and his family as divine rulers.

> That'd be the dictatorship of the bougeoisie in America.

TIL the United States is literally worse than North Korea.

By the way, how does your precious revolution against the bourgeoisie (you should spell your own buzzwords correctly) stack up against the communist elite who live large in the west and send their kids to the top European boarding schools in the dirty, imperialist west?

I guess some people are just more equal than others, comrade.

> How are they not a bastion against imperialism? What have they done that could be considered imperialism literally anywhere on Earth? They supported Assad against US imperialism, Yemen against Saudi imperialism, and Libya against French and US imperialism all within the last decade.

So I guess concentration camps are fine as long as you hate America.

> "Something about American imperialism" haha yeah no big deal that American imperialism. Am I supposed to take this dudes opinion seriously?

Dude, you're a tankie.

u/justflipping · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang - This memoir is what the upcoming ABC sitcom is based on, and it's what WSJ journalist Jefff Yang has said, if unedited, will be "a game-changer for Asian Americans on screen." It's a witty and insightful story of how Eddie Huang bridges his old school parents' background and the American lifestyle of hip-hop and Air Jordans.

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang - graphic novel that weaves the story of the Chinese tale of the Monkey King, a second generation kid who moves into a primarily white neighborhood and doesn't want to be considered a "Fob", and a white American boy whose Chinese cousin "Chin-kee" visits.

No-No Boy by John Okada - A Japanese American returns home after being interned during WWII and struggles with where he belongs in US society. The term "no-no boy" refers to how interned Japanese Americans answered to a "loyalty questionnaire."

Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee. The protagonist is Henry Park, a Korean American whose identity as an American with a Korean upbringing has impacted all facets of his life, including the strain on his marriage and his excellence as a spy. He goes further into cultural turmoil when he is assigned to spy on a Korean-American politician who during his run for mayor of NYC has to deal with tensions between Blacks and Koreans.

Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine - graphic novel whose protagonist Ben Tanaka is in a struggle with his own identity. His girlfriend is politically active and is involved in the Asian-American community, which he doesn't care much about. Ben denies the relevance of race, yet he has a certain attraction towards white girls and complex about his own attractiveness as an Asian male. Ben is bitter and angry, and his rejection of many things, including his own race distances him from people.

I also liked American Son (story of two Filipino brothers and their mother navigating violence and a new culture in America) by Brian Ascalon Roley and The Dead Do Not Improve by Jay Caspain Kang. The latter is Kang's first novel and it was not spectacular, but I did like his writing style and his use of pop culture from the view of a Korean American. He incorporates the story of the shooter Seung-Hui Cho, which he originally wanted to write a book about to reflect on Korean American male anger. Jay Caspian Kang is already in the media for his journalism pieces, but I'm looking forward to more of his writings and possible continued foray into literature.

u/ipiranga · 1 pointr/asianamerican

> The sub seems to always write it off as a way to give white's more power in schools


But it is. Maybe you could try reading an actual study conducted by a researcher before you say something false? Maybe you could look at actual historical precedents as well?


One

http://www.princeton.edu/~tje/files/Opportunity%20Cost%20of%20Admission%20Preferences%20Espenshade%20Chung%20June%202005.pdf

The Espenshade study (Espenshade was employed by Princeton, an institution that the results reflect negatively on) found that the seats that Asian-Americans "lost" to Affirmative Action don't go to blacks/Latinos. They go to white students. Affirmative Action is a way to keep Asians out of universities. 'WHATTT! WHAT AN ABSURD STATEMENT' you say.


Two


Just a few generations ago, HYP admins (http://www.amazon.com/The-Chosen-Admission-Exclusion-Princeton/dp/061877355X)
met to devise ways to restrict Jewish admission to university. They said there were "too many Jews." Similarly, elite universities today believe there are "too many Asians." Thus, they enact or shape preexisting policies to effect this goal. The difference is that this time the Jews are in charge and it's incredibly hypocritical and disgusting that the same policies that would have kept them out of elite schools is what they're using to keep Asians out.

u/endlessballss · 46 pointsr/asianamerican

Hey, bud. I get you're upset at reddit's circlejerks. I get how you're trying to build solidarity by trying to find parallels in the treatment of other oppressed or disempowered groups.


That being said, comparing reddit circlejerks to the Rwandan Genocide or the Nuremberg Laws is a bit out of the scope of the issue it looks like you're taking issue with. Sure, the circlejerk of the "shitty chinese tourist" is probably an effect of european imperialism, just like some of the shitty things in Africa are also a result of european imperialism. But the "shitty things in africa" include genocide, while the "shitty chinese tourist" trope is a probably very real circlejerk on reddit that is not comparable to genocide, even if you can make the broadest of connections between reddit circlejerks and the Rwandan Genocide.


I get that you don't like how reddit circlejerks about an important aspect of your identity. But respectfully, you're overestimating how important reddit circlejerks are in broader cultural discourse.


If you're looking for academic books that look at orientalism and imperialism and identity and all that jazz, to situate your thoughts in the broader context I think you're searching for, here are some books:


http://www.amazon.com/Orientalism-Edward-W-Said/dp/039474067X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426553762&sr=8-1&keywords=orientalism+edward+said


http://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-History-Nation-Questioning-Narratives/dp/0226167224/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426554057&sr=8-1&keywords=rescuing+history+from+the+nation


http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Orient-Rendering-Pasts-History/dp/0520201701/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426553687&sr=8-1&keywords=japan%27s+orient+stefan+tanaka

u/killingzoo · 2 pointsr/asianamerican

>This to me is really bizarre, and why I term the piece mendacious: Asian Americans do talk about white Americans the way whites talk about black folks. This sort of thing was a clear subtext of Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. Many (most?) Asian American kids who grew up with immigrant parents were barraged with assertions about the disreputable character of their “American” (white) friends, and how it was important to keep on the straight & narrow. Immigrants from Asia often perceive white Americans to be sexually obsessed, lazy, and prone to a general amorality and fixation on short term hedonic interests. These are polite ways to condense the sort of attitude many Asian immigrants have toward the white American mainstream, which they worry will absorb and corrupt their children. Dash must know this, as he probably had immigrant parents, or was friends with people from immigrant backgrounds. Most white Americans don’t know this, partly because most white Americans don’t have non-white friends. But anyone from an Asian American background would be aware of the stereotypes and perceptions.

And Amy Chua, if she indeed "subtexted" racist stereotypes about White people, she should be called out for it. But I suspect the "subtext" is rather more imaginary than the author let on.

and yes, some of us have racist mothers or grandmothers who engage in that sort of behavior.

Years ago, I remember reading a book by a famous Japanese engineering expert, Dr. Ishikawa.

http://www.toolshero.com/toolsheroes/kaoru-ishikawa/

his book, http://www.amazon.com/What-Total-Quality-Control-Japanese/dp/0139524339, had a chapter on why he thought Asians were better in science and engineering.

It was pretty racist stuff in that chapter, and I had no problem point it out to my colleagues.

The point is, lots of smart people (especially of the older generation), harbor some racist ideas.

"Harboring" is OK, because you can keep thinking about it, and if enough evidence counter your ideas, you can still change your mind.

"Talking" racist shit in public is NOT OK, because you are hurting people with your own shit ideas.

"Subtexting"? Not sure where that one falls, not unless the author clarifies the definition of that word.