“Just because I’m not the white guy doesn’t mean I’m not the right guy”
A few weeks ago, I tweeted about the trend of Asian American couples resorting to in vitro fertilizations and abortions in order to have a son rather a daughter. My accompanying comment: “Where is the love for Asian girls?”
Soon afterward, I gained a new follower named whiteyonrice, (presumably because said follower searched ‘Asian girls’). As someone who happens to date a Caucasian, I was intrigued by the username and I checked out his site.

Silly question. We all know America’s Best Dance Crews’ Quest Crew, Kaba Modern and others blew the lid off that assumption ages ago. But lest we forget, Fox’s fifth season of So You Think You Can Dance? features three uber-talented Asian American dancers vying for the top spot.
KARLA GARCIA
In one corner we have Filipino-American Karla Garcia from Brooklyn, NY. 23-year-old Garcia is a graduate of New York University where she studied dance at Tisch School of the Arts. She has also performed on Broadway in “Hot Feet” and went on …

June 1982, Detroit: In the midst of a major recession, Japanese automakers were making a big splash in the American marketplace — out-designing and out-selling domestic cars. Waves of layoffs racked the city known as the heart of America’s auto industry, breeding despair and anger.
27-year-old Vincent Chin, the only child of Chinese immigrants, was celebrating his bachelor party at a local strip joint when he got into an argument with ex-Chrysler employee Ronald Ebens and his stepson, Michael Nitz. Ebens had only recently been laid off.
Ebens instigated by declaring, “It’s because of …

I had to do a double take when I first saw the trailer to Pixar’s latest computer-animated feature, Up. No, it wasn’t the talking golden retreiver, the Fruit Loops-esque dodo bird or the endearing octogenarian protagonist, Fredricksen. It was the fat, hyperactive boy scout, Russell, whose almond-shaped eyes and black tuft hair took a moment to register.

Then suddenly, the revelation dawned on me. Is Russell Asian? Could it be? An animated Asian character without a stereotypical accent, martial arts know-how, and other clichéd cultural cues? I had to YouTube …