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April 2000 SPECIAL FEATURES
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LATEST NEWS FOR AUGUST 2001
As we enter August 2001, we have seen the opening of many films featuring Asian Americans, the success of Asian ballplayers promoting goodwill, Bush's APA appointments, etc. These situations are just starting to correct the conclusions found in ADL's recent report on "Racisim towards Asian/Chinese Americans." Review the latests events and people to observe the APA communities' progress. FEATURED ARTISTS & LEADERS
SABEER BHATIA According to Wired Magazine, Hotmail's user base has grown faster than any media company in history -- faster than CNN, AOL or even the audience of the 90's hit show Seinfeld. Bhatia, 30, was born in Bangalore, India's Silicon Valley. He graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering at CalTech and later earned his master's degree and Ph.D. at Stanford, where he met Smith. Before HotMail, he worked at Apple Computers and Firepower Systems. HotMail's concept was to give users free e-mail with the only prerequisite being a Web-browser. Users can log on from home, work or even remote parts of Europe and Africa. Advertisers then pay for space to reach their specific demographic which Hotmail delivers through one of the most diverse user bases on the Internet. Bhatia is regarded as an Indian success story in his homeland and led President Clinton to remark to the Indian Prime Minister in 1998 of the impact that Indians are having in Silicon Valley. The tighter the squeeze --Don Ho, from "E Lei Ka Lei Lei (Beach Party Song)" Ho, at 71 in 2001, with his distinctive whiskey-baritone voice, remains the leading exponent of "Love Hawaiian Style" that's been undiminished by four decades of nonstop performing. Most people know only three things about Hawaii: Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor and Don Ho. Don was born in the little Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako of Hawaiian, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, German parentage. His career started at a Oahu cocktail lounge Honey's. In 1962, Ho began playing at Duke's, with the "Allis" as his backup band, in Waikiki and became a huge success and phenemon.. His success brought him a two-week engagement at Hollywood's ultra-posh Cocoanut Grove in 1966 that broke all previous attendance records that led to additional SRO crowds. In addition, he's performed at the Sands in Las Vegas, Harrah's at Lake Tahoe, the Palmer House in Chicago, the Americana Hotel's Royal Box in New York, TV guest appearances with Johnny Carson, Joey Bishop and Art Linkletter, and his own hour-long color TV special--not to mention a clutch of best-selling LP record albums for Reprise. His television appearances include episodes of The Brady Bunch, Charlie's Angels, and The Fall Guy. From October 1976 to March 1977, he hosted a half-hour daytime variety series, The Don Ho Show, broadcast over ABC-TV. By the 1990s, he had launched his own label, Honey Records, to release his recordings and others by island favorites. He continued to make occasional TV appearances and in 1996 had a small part in the film Joe's Apartment. Ho was named by trendy-libidinous Maxim magazine as one of its "50 Coolest Guys Ever." It has been said that Don is is "the Hawaiian equivalent to Frank, Sammy and Dean in Vegas." This Hong Kong immigrant has been described as a Chinese Martin Luther King, visionary, a warrior who runs at full gallop without losing his balance and a Renaissance man with a heart of Buddha. For the past three decades, this respected professor, director of Berkeley's Asian American studies department and an uncompromising community activist has been addressing important issues. He fought for bilingual education in public schools, fought the tougher admissions standards imposed to curb a disproportionately high Asian American enrollment at the nation's elite schools, chaired a UC Asian language task force that persuaded the College Board to offer the SAT II achievement test in Chinese, Japanese and Korean and played a strategist role in the Wen Ho Lee case, "Being perpetual aliens is the first defining characteristic of Asian Americans," he said. Americans of Asian ancestry are "presumed foreigners," even if they are fifth-generation California natives. This prejudice, he says, is rooted in the master narrative of American history that tells us the nation was founded, settled and built by whites. It has been said that "He framed and built the foundation of the Asian American civil rights movement as we know it today."
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The purpose of this section is the following: APA & MEDIA NEWS
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CONAN APOLOGIZES FOR SILVERMAN The intent of the joke was to illuminate racism, not support it. - Sarah Silverman, 23 July 2001 Richard Roeper remarked that "Silverman found herself in a small tempest over the joke--but what would have happened if she had substituted the word ''nigger'' for ''chink''? Would NBC's censors have thought for even a second about allowing the joke to go on the air unbleeped? - Doubtful."
LAOTIAN HATE CRIME
ASIAN INTERNET PROGRAMMING
LUCY FADING FROM ALLY?
FIL-AM HATE CRIME
INDO-AMERICANS HOPE FOR PEACE Since the 1989 revolt broke out in Kashmir, some 250,000 Kashmiri Hindus have fled Kashmir. Many of them live as refugees in Delhi and Jammu. There are currently around 1,400 Kashmiri Hindu families living in the U.S. and a smaller number of Kashmiri Muslim families who call the U.S. home.
RUSH HOUR 3
TRANSLATORS NEEDED IN SCHOOLS
HAWAIIAN LAND TAKEN
SAT II HELPS ASIANS
BUSH'S "AA" APPOINTEES
AOL/TIME WARNER'S & MINORITIES Rachel S. Lam, a former principal of the Quetzal/Chase Capital Partners fund in New York, will head the team that manages the Opportunity Investment Fund.
SATELLITE STATIONS TARGET APA'S
KOREAN ON KOREAN CRIME Mr. Kim, a Korean immigrant who moved to Queens from Los Angeles, was well known in Flushing for his successful real estate business before he started publishing The Korea Tribune in 1997.
BUSH APPOINTS 12 APA'S
STATUS OF NATIVE HAWAIIANS This is while Hawai'i has been called a "laboratory of race relations" based on its carefully cultivated image as a place where people of different cultures have historically lived together and "fused." This image has a certain amount of validity when Hawaii's racial "fusion" is contrasted to that found in most of the continental United States. For Native Hawaiians, the fusion has been forced at times and cultural domination is a reality etched in daily existence.
ASIAN MEDIA FLOURISH IN CA
#1 - Korea Times / Los Angeles
IMMIGRANT STUDENT PROBLEMS All five students had earned extra credits in part by taking on more than the usual course load. The teachers and students said that they knew of other students who had met graduation requirements early, but those students were not asked to leave. Board of Education's superintendent of student monitoring, Ronald Woo, and Rose DePinto, then the superintendent for high schools in Brooklyn and Staten Island were instrumental in reinstating the students back into school. Several Chinese 11th grade students received transcripts indicating they had been promoted to 12th grade and would graduate by January 2002. Two of the 11th-graders have filed a complaint with the city's Human Rights Commission. A veteran Lafayette teacher stated that "You start to think it's a premeditated persecution of Asian students."
RACIAL PROFILING Seattle's Asian-American community are demanding an immediate apology from Seattle Mayor Paul Schell and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske for what they call "blatant racial profiling." (note: Visit HERE to read the apology that was requested.
JAPANESE BASEBALL PLAYERS "This is an exciting time for all of us," said Japanese baseball historian Kerry Nakagawa, director of the Nisei Baseball Research Project - "We're reaching a new level of understanding through a diamond."
GM SEEKS DIVERSITY In addition, GM has formed the Center of Expertise on Diversity to "increase GM's understanding of multicultural consumers." Judy Hu will manage the center's advertising efforts, with Michael Jackson tapped to meld the team's goals with GM's current field sales and brand arketing efforts.
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