I find it really interesting how people find it so curious that his kid, who has lived his whole life in Japan with a Japanese-speaking family, isn't completely fluent in English yet, while I'm sure they wouldn't bat an eye if the family lived in America and the kid didn't know a lick of his mother's language.

The Korean international adoption industry has been heavily criticized for corruption and general shadiness. Many adult adoptees have found that the circumstances of their adoptions were manipulated or outright falsified.

Ohh, I see. Other actors' characters have some kind of nod to their real-life identities, with the exception of Jeong? Well, I would say that maybe they are deliberately mocking the common conflation of all East Asian ethnicities as "Chinese," but I don't know how well known that stereotype is to people who aren't…

I don't watch Community all that often, so maybe I'm missing something with regard to this specific character, but why should a Korean actor be restricted to playing Korean characters? Some of Sandra Oh's best roles were playing Chinese-Canadians. Actors of East Asian descent would be severely restricted in the work…

I have to say, though, if it's just a matter of rarity, isn't it interesting which features end up getting valued? Curly, kinky hair is rare in East Asians - why isn't that coveted, with Asian women perming their hair en masse? Why not hooked noses instead of "straight" noses - there are Asians with naturally hooked…

Well, this is an article that talks about 2NE1's unique place in K-pop: Feminism and K-pop: Why 2NE1 Matters

It's really tiresome when Asians insist that the plastic surgery phenomenon has little or nothing to do with whiteness, because historically, U.S. cultural imperialism and white beauty standards have pervaded most of the world to some degree. However, the majority of people in Asia who get plastic surgery genuinely…

In Korea, they're considered the ugliest female K-pop group, because with the exception of Dara, none of them fit the extremely narrow Korean standard of beauty, and with the exception of Bom, none of them have had plastic surgery. (Interestingly, I've read that their fanbase in Korea is upwards of 70% female.)

Well, there's also Sohee from the Wonder Girls, and CL and Minzy from 2NE1. But yeah, the fact that we can identify them on one hand is nuts.

The comments by the designers and models during Seoul Fashion week were interesting. I follow some blogs on Korean fashion, and my impression is that mainstream, commercial media is dominated, and I mean completely dominated by one beauty standard - large, double-lidded eyes, narrow, high-bridged noses, small faces…

There was actually a study that disproved the claim that Asians were being displaced by affirmative action policies that favored African American and Latino students, but were rather being displaced by "negative action" admissions policies which held them to higher standards than white students. …

Not to downplay the prevalence of this procedure (it is indeed an extremely common operation in East Asia), but how do you know, upon encountering someone, if their double eyelid is the result of plastic surgery, or if it is natural? Is it that common a topic of conversation? Because a sizable number of East Asians do…

It says "inspired" by the Cecil Chao story. I'm guessing it'll be whitewashed and the characters won't be Chinese at all. Either way, Asians won't be starring in it.

Well, so much for the "class, not race" argument that a few commenters are trying to defend. By the way, how exactly were the Korean and Japanese folks able to get service without passports, but not you? I find it difficult to believe that the shops were able - or cared to - distinguish you from other East Asians for…

If your restaurant is in a racially diverse area, then why do you use racial identifiers for only the nonwhite customers? From a practical standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to maintain the idea of white people as "normative" when there are multiple people of color in the restaurant and you already need to use…

I don't think you can use world "football" culture to explain what is going on here; it really doesn't exist in the U.S. Soccer doesn't ignite the same passion on a mass level here as it does internationally. The sports-centric, country-centric argument doesn't fly. Have there been ANY racist or nationalist slurs used…

Here's an interview where she says so:

Actually, Lin credits his mother with allowing him to play basketball because it made him happy and supporting him every step of the way, all against the criticism of other Asian mothers who didn't see any value in it (until he got into Harvard). [www.nytimes.com] You're making the mistake of projecting Asian…

This article is a pretty clear debunking of the "varied DNA"/hybrid vigour theory: [www.racialicious.com] Basically, there is more genetic variation within a "race" than between them. It also addresses the tendency to only identify "gorgeous" mixed-race individuals as somehow representative of the entire mixed-race…

It's this story: [gawker.com]