September 11th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Priyanka Yoshikawa / Ariana Miyamoto: Japanese Beauty Queens, ハーフ, and Pop-Culture Disconnect
| This week, one of our readers tipped us off on a story about beauty in Japan. For the second straight year, Japan will be represented in one of the Big 4 beauty pageants by a poised, intelligent, strong woman who happens to be racially mixed and unwaveringly proud of who she is. Last […]
September 5th, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Radiolab’s Debatable – The Case of Ryan Wash & the Cracked Podcast
| In third grade, there was a kid I would barter with — me: sugar in gelatinous forms; him: temporary access at reading time to a grocery bag full of Mad magazines I adored for their amusing and mind-bending fold-ins. Mixed in with the Mad were issues of something called Cracked magazine which I […]
March 1st, 2016 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Just Kidding News – Yang Liu Attempts East Meets West
Last weekend, a friend of mine introduced me to Just Kidding News founded by Los Angeles based comedy duo Bart Kwan and Joe Jo. I’m not familiar with their entire body of work but I like what I saw in the video below. In this session, we hear about artist Yang Liu who has gained […]
November 25th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Centre A – Goonj! Being Brown in Chinatown
| Last summer, a friend invited me to an event at Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. I had seen Centre A years ago and thought it was a great idea, an excellent addition to Vancouver’s cultural landscape. It existed in the bottom suite of the old Interurban Railway building now the […]
August 25th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on A Call to Social Scientists — Segmenting Population & the Inadequacy of English
| Anyone of Asian descent born or mostly raised outside of the motherlands, particularly, in English-speaking nations like Canada, the US, Australia, and England share so many similarities in terms of history and interests that I am surprised academia has not coined a term that groups these populations and that allows us to talk about […]
June 23rd, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Kowloon Walled City, Greg Girard & RAG
| Image Credit – Wall Street Journal | Vancouver is loaded with summer attractions! Inevitable time conflicts will force you to choose one over others. Saturday was one of those days and I opted for photographer Greg Girard’s exhibit at the Richmond Art Gallery (RAG) entitled Richmond/Kowloon (ending Sun. June 28) over (a) Granville Art […]
May 2nd, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Role Models – Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh
| “This is a different kind of currency much more valuable than money.” — Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh | A lot of us associate plastic surgery with frivolous stories from the entertainment industry. At times, we find it in useful tales like that of nine year old burn victim Ragini. In a 5 minute instalment […]
September 22nd, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Game Changer – Eddie Huang
On how good it felt being in Taiwan among a population that looked like him — “And I thought that was pretty neat. I never say neat. It’s, like, so fucking, like, that heartwarming moment that you talk like a 15 year old girl, you know what I mean?” My introduction to Eddie Huang came […]
August 27th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Game Changer – Reggie Watts
I picked up a Georgia Strait the other day to find that Reggie Watts is performing at the Vogue Theatre on September 4. Knowing him to be an unusual performer, my interest in him has grown and I thought I would explore his world in more detail. When Watts was a thirty-something living in Seattle, […]
August 1st, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, SOCIAL SCIENCES | Comments Off on Role Models-James Shigeta (1929-2014)
I’ve thought about the terms “Asian Canadian” and “Asian American” quite a bit for a number of years now. What I find especially interesting is how when I look at the motherlands, I see strained relations and a very tense environment fuelled by border disputes, arguments about history, and conflict over resources. On the other […]