Hyphen Lynks: I'm Yours Edition
Claire Light - December 21, 2009
- Indian media [2] loves them some stories about [2] Indian Americans in Obama's administration, including the story that Indian America apparently had no "power couples" until Obama started creating them [3] with a wave of his wand. Sword. Scepter. Gosh, I don't know what metaphor to use here. They're all phallic.
- An Indian American has been sentenced to 21 years for armed bank robbery [4], in which a teller was maimed by a gunshot wound.
- A Chi Am engineer has been detained for a year in China [5] on some case involving trade secrets.
- No progress has been made [6] on the confused case of Pakistani American "terrorist" (?) David Headley.
- In the crazy Chinese urban renewal world, Chinese are resorting to self-immolation to protest being kicked out of their homes. The latest episode involved a Chinese American family [7], in which the green card-holding father preferred to set himself on fire rather than vacate the family home. It was razed while they were at the hospital.
- There's more Asian American bank news [8] to be had, if you're interested.
- Forever 21 was started by Korean Americans [9]! Did you know that? I didn't. I'll betcha anything, though, that it's common knowledge among other Hyphenators, and I just missed it.
- The National Review has opinions on NIAC's Trita Parsi [10]. No don't tell me, let me guess: they're negative. Wonder why the right is so agitated about NIAC right now, if NIAC is so irrelevant. Hmmm ...
- A Sacramento Pakistani American family is accusing CPS of taking away their young children because they are Muslim [11]. Their baby's broken arm and skull were ruled the result of a previous medical condition, but the kids were still placed with a non-Muslim foster family, rather than extended family or friends.
- Apparent pettiness threatens the opening of the nation's first Korean American research center [12] at UC Riverside.
- The Mercury News has a profile [13] of Bay Area Fil Am thrash metal group Death Angel: dont call it a comeback.
- The JACL is protesting the (lack of) handling of a racially motivated attack [14] against Asian/Asian American students at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
- Napolitano is leading an effort [15] to stave off more American anti-Muslim terrorism.
- Naomi Hirahara reflects on the role of the Rafu Shimpo [17], the only JA daily left in town after recent closures of other ethnic newspapers.
- Complaints in the runup to the 2010 US Census [18] include the fact that Arab Americans are constrained to identify as "white."
- On Ahmedinanigans Watch: jailed Iranian American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh was denied bail [19], while the hiker "spies" were linked to Iranians jailed in the States [20] when the US asked for their release.
- And finally, I am ignoring five million articles about how Asian Americans celebrate the holidays because I don't care. That's yours, too. For free.
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