Lisa Ling Marries Doctor

June 1, 2007

Among the guests for the Los Angeles wedding were Connie Chung and Kelly Hu. The bride work a red (so Chinese!) Vivienne Tam dress.

Hopefully, if Ling and Song, who are both Asian, have kids, they will treat them well, unlike some monoracial parents.

Contributor: 

Harry Mok

Editor in chief

Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.

Comments

Comments

How are they an interracial couple?
I'm a product of a Chinese mother and a Korean father, and my parents raised me very well. I have noticed on this site although it's an "Asian American" site, in often times in a sneaky way subtly insults Chinese people, you don't with any other type of Asian. Why is that?Most people either don't care or are unaware of it, but I majored in both psych and communications, and have been a Psychologist for the past 8 yrs going on 9 yrs; and it's obvious to me.To those who bash other Asians who are Asians themselves, you are only keeping yourself weak in the end. Only as a strong unit can we gain respect from other races. Stop with the ignorance and start to see the bigger picture.We are the only race that still hasn't fully understood that concept. There is still so much we need to learn and realize. We are the only race that is NEVER mentioned in inaugural speeches when they talk about America and Americans, we are still considered foreigners even though we have been here since the early 1800's, long before most immigrants who came here from other countries; I can date my Chinese side of the family back to 1803, which was long before the gold rush.We are the most ignore and uncared about race in America. We are Americans, as much as another other American. Band together like other races. I never see or hear any other race bash, ridicule or try to belittle their own race at all or nearly as much, even though they may be from different backgrounds, i.e. Brazilians, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, etc. I don't see that with Caucasians or Black people either even though they have many different backgrounds and sometimes culture. They understand the "Big picture", they understand that everyone would see them as the same, so they unite together despite any issues they may have with one another, to create a support system betw. them for a greater goal and to solidify and strengthen them all as a race , as a people which ultimately strengthens themselves as an individual, in the long run.Stop the prejudice within our own race no matter how subtle, overt, or done in a mocking way, because ultimately it weakens us as a whole. Until this is understood by all of us, we will stay in the status quo and see no progress. Other races help their own racial communities, we are the only race who have done little in that department. Sure some of us help others, but it's never within our own racial communities. We donate money and time to charities outside of our communities, which is noble, but we are ignoring our own people. Other races are smart enough to look out for each other, surely we are smart enough to follow suit someday I sincerely hope.Politically we have a voice in numbers, but divided, we are weak and proven to be so. No one will care, not the Politicans, media nor the public. We have very little voice in this society and it's due to our own stupidity, sorry but true. It's about time we gain respect and acknowledgmentwe so long deserve as Americans and as a race. Only as united in numbers can we be heard, respected and represented.Did you know that the Chinese were the first immigrants to pay taxes on their labor? During the 1800s, they were only 2% of California's population, but provided for 80% of the TOTAL tax revenue in the state of California. I am also a descendant of one of the early Chinese immigrants who came here during the 1940's as well as descendants of those who came to America long before the Gold rush, and we are one of the oldest generation Chinese Americans in the US, but I or anyone of my family members, in any way think we are more entitled or less of any other person of any race who came after us, we are all the same in the sense that I think we should all be treated equally and fairly in this country of ours no matter how many generations back or if we are only the first generation, I treat everyone equally.The Chinese exclusion act in the latter part of the 1800s stopped all Chinese immigrants sadly and unfairly including their own children and wives from joining these men until 1943, during ww2 in which the ban was lifted. So if you didn't already have your family here, you were out of luck.Germany has officially apologized to the Jewish people, why hasn't the country of Japan apologized to Korean or China for the millions of civilians they brutallymassacred and raped during ww2?I happen to have family on both on my Korean side and Chinese side of the family who suffered directly from ww2 and lived to tell their horrific experiences. I don't harbor any ill feelings, but the least Japan's gov't can do is own up to their actions and involvement in the war.Despite how harshly ww2 ended with the atomic bomb, which killed thousands of innocent Japanese civilians, it did however end the war in ASIA and saved millions more innocent lives as a result. It abruptly stopped future killings and invasions to other Asian countries, i.e. Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Philippines and so on, consider yourself fortunate, and for that reason I thank America for putting an abrupt end to the war; my family wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for that reason if the war had lasted any longer both in Korea and in China.Sorry, it all needed to be said. I know I touched on many topics and if I had more time I'd revise it chronologically and transition it better but I will leave it be.In caring memory of all those who have suffered or died innocently in ww2, on all fronts.
opps excuse the previous typos, especially when I typed in 1940's instead of 1840s.