Asian Americans deserve recognition in educational curriculums
It’s no secret that U.S. education glosses over its racist, anti-Asian history, and although many of us feel we are familiar with its horrors, we aren’t.
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From coffee beans to caramel
Cal in Color
English, to me, felt trendy, international. It slipped out of my mouth as smooth as caramel. Chinese was awkward, bulky, mundane, like chewing coffee beans.
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Lessons from cooking
Growing up as a second-generation Chinese American with a largely American upbringing, I found it easy to feel disconnected from my cultural background.
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Embodying my honey and silk
Cal in Color
I quickly grew to resent my Chinese side. I hated my monolid eyes, my parents’ accented words, my mother’s ethnic dishes and anything else in between.
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Lost in translation: My journey to gaining proficiency in Chinese
While learning a new language may seem daunting and while the process is certainly difficult, it opens up new worlds and brings you to places you never would have imagined.
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What’s in a name?
Off the Beat
When it comes to names with kanji, it becomes possible to mix past and present by changing only the reading or the kanji.
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2 halves of a whole
Off the Beat
Despite its sometimes arbitrary use, my Chinese name has always felt like a gift: I was the last one in my family named by my great-grandmother.
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Talking back
Off the Beat
I didn’t see choosing to study French as an affront to my heritage or as leaving my culture behind. But my mother disagreed.
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Chinese restaurant Noodles Fresh opens location in Berkeley
Noodles Fresh, a Chinese restaurant and tea house that opened its first location in El Cerrito in 2015, opened in Berkeley on March 1.
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If the shoe doesn’t fit
Fresh off the BART
The term Asian American has been powerful in uniting Asian minority groups, but who does this alliance ultimately benefit?
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