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 […]
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 […]
July 26th, 2015 | by weshareinterests | published in FASHION, FILM & MUSIC, FEATURE | Comments Off on Marry Me – Kyle Hanagami & Koharu Sugawara
| It’s mid-summer and for many of us that means wedding season, a time when we celebrate the union between two people we hold dearest, or some relative we’ve sort of met and that person they met that time. (Image Credit – Mcdonald Selznick Associates) Kyle Hanagami is an acclaimed choreographer based in Los Angeles. […]
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 12th, 2014 | by weshareinterests | published in FEATURE, LITERATURE & VOCAB | Comments Off on Gavin Meet Garrett, Hmong
955 pm. It’s 2005. Fall. Or was it spring? Evening classes end on Pyeongchon’s Hagwon-ga. Rows upon rows of buses (some like Greyhounds, others like mini-vans) are lined up against the curb. Drivers are standing around, smoking cigarettes, wishing they had cigarettes, bumming cigarettes. They’re there to wait. Wait for…it. Within minutes, hundreds of bodies […]
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 […]