Asian American Commercial Watch: Nike’s Lunar New Year Ad – ‘The Great Chase’
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When I first saw this Nike ad for the Chinese New Year in China, I loved it. It brought back many memories of my father fighting over a bill with others at a Chinese restaurant. As noted in this article: “The ad, which was released just before the Year of The Rat kicks off on […]

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When Racist Stereotypes Spread Like the Coronavirus
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America Family Claims They Were Racially Stereotyped Over Coronavirus ConcernsWith news of the recent coronavirus outbreak in China, the racist stereotyping has begun! In Washington state, an Asian American family who approached a sample table while shopping at Costco says they were asked “if they came from China” and […]

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Finally, We’re Getting a Boba Emoji
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America At long last, there’s a bubble tea emojiThe Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that standardizes languages across digital platforms and devices, on Wednesday announced an upcoming launch of 62 new emoji in 2020, including a smiling face with tear, polar bear, seal, pickup truck, fondue, teapot, magic wand, beetle, […]

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What We Lost in the Museum of Chinese in America Fire
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America What We Lost in the Museum of Chinese in America FireLast Thursday night, 70 Mulberry Street in Manhattan caught on fire, likely destroying much of the Museum of Chinese in America’s collection of some eighty-five thousand items — a trove of priceless, irreplaceable artifacts from Chinese American history, […]

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Fire Destroys Thousands of Chinatown Museum Artifacts
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America 85,000 Pieces From Beloved Chinatown Museum Likely Destroyed in FireOfficials at the Museum of Chinese in America said Friday evening that thousands of historic and artistic items it had carefully collected and curated over decades were most likely lost after a fire tore through New York’s Chinatown building […]

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There’s a New Bruce Lee Documentary Premiering at Sundance
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America Be WaterI can’t make it to the Sundance Film Festival this year, but one of the films I’m dying to see is the premiere of the Bruce Lee documentary Be Water, directed Bao Nguyen. The film focuses on the legendary martial artist’s rise to superstardom in the years […]

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#APAHM For This Month – Again – Be Naked
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While running around yelling “HAN LIVES YOU FUCKERS!!!!!”. F & F is the only mythical lore I love? Not completely true but you get the picture… Be naked. Yell. Believe in the lore you love.

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Could ‘Parasite’ win Best Picture at the Oscars?
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Things to Know From Angry Asian America ‘Parasite’ Makes History With Best Cast Win at SAG AwardsParasite won the SAG Award for best performance by a cast in a motion picture on Sunday night, making history as the first foreign-language film to win in the category. Park So-dam, Lee Sun-kyun, Choi Woo-shik, Lee Jung-eun and […]

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