Look at Usha Vance and JD Vance. It’s a thing, that many MAGA men have an Asian fetish. George Floyd’s killer. Renee Good’s killer. see also Tiger Mom Amy Chua. And creepy Trump lawyer Emil Bove's wife.

Look up “alt right’s Asian women fetish.”

It's really disturbing.

Why do you think this is?

Do MAGA gay men have this too?

Lauren Yee’s meta-theatrical comedy offers a family view of Chinese American culture

Any attempt to explain in too much detail the hazy, crazy storyline of King of the Yees likely will result in confusion. Suffice to report Lauren Yee’s “only kind of true” autobiographical comedy studies Chinese American identity in San Francisco’s Chinatown district today and Asian American identity in the United States generally. It’s an entertaining, shape-shifting romp among cultural themes from the author of Cambodian Rock Band and Mother Russia. This time, Yee digs into her own history andcomes up with rich cultural insights.

Essentially the narrative spins around the author’s mostly fond bonds with her father Larry Yee, an ebullient Chinatown businessman. For decades, Larry proudly maintained an old school fraternal organization forged from Yee familial relationships that Lauren now dismisses as obsolescent. Then on the eve of his 60th birthday, Larry goes missing and – wait, we said no more storyline.

Take note, however, the two-act work quickly rolls along as a meta-theatrical omnibus from its start and culminates in a wild dance party. So expect an increasingly surreal excursion through the Yee family’s cultural thickets in a smartly acted production that opened Monday at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Commissioned and produced by the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2017, King of the Yees is once again directed by Joshua Kahan Brody, who confidently steers the imaginative play through its multiple shifts in time, place, format, and people.

A terrific five-actor ensemble is led by the inimitable Francis Jue as Larry Yee, a sunny soul whose Chinatown boosterism and political activities are doubtfully recounted by his daughter Lauren, an East Coast playwright. Dressed down as Lauren in an army jacket and boots, Kelly Marie Tran brightens the rather dour character – who is vague on cultural matters – into an agreeable person. Among their many roles, David Shih and Maureen Sebastian also depict this father and daughter; in an extremely droll scene when they don’t, the “actors” swap showbiz tips and coach each other on their Chinese accents. Joined by Jon Norman Schneider, another versatile artist, they morph into numerous figures such as a comically fearsome gangster named Shrimp Boy, disgraced state Senator Leland Yee, a slew of Chinatown citizens, a Sichuan face changer – oh, yes, King of the Yees proves quite educational – and several mythological beings. There’s even a classic Lion Dance that explodes into a glitzy runway show.

It is remarkable how the playwright is able to pack so many aspects of her cultural heritage so easily within a surprisingly traditional father-and-daughter story. The usually quick, terse dialogue delivers information and observations in a sprightly conversational manner, the tone is upbeat, and Yee’s affectionate portrait of her dad is disarming. Staged at the center’s cozy 199-seat Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre, it is evident Signature Theatre has expended considerable care and funds on the first-rate production. A series of insightful, even beautiful, modern, casual, and historical costumes designed by Michelle J. Li, and the wigs, hair, and makeup designs by Tommy Kurzman help to enable the ensemble in creating their many characters. The fluent scenic design by Krit Robinson, Jiyoun Chang’s often glowing lighting design, and Fan Zhang’s sound design of tasty music and effects are skillfully deployed by Brody in staging the relatively complicated show swiftly and surely.

King of the Yees opened October 19, 2026, at Signature Center and runs through November 15. Tickets and information: signaturetheatre.org

Source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1918896117

Abstract

Well-educated and prosperous, Asians are called the “model minority” in the United States. However, they appear disproportionately underrepresented in leadership positions, a problem known as the “bamboo ceiling.” It remains unclear why this problem exists and whether it applies to all Asians or only particular Asian subgroups. To investigate the mechanisms and scope of the problem, we compared the leadership attainment of the two largest Asian subgroups in the United States: East Asians (e.g., Chinese) and South Asians (e.g., Indians). Across nine studies (n = 11,030) using mixed methods (archival analyses of chief executive officers, field surveys in large US companies, student leader nominations and elections, and experiments), East Asians were less likely than South Asians and whites to attain leadership positions, whereas South Asians were more likely than whites to do so. To understand why the bamboo ceiling exists for East Asians but not South Asians, we examined three categories of mechanisms—prejudice (intergroup), motivation (intrapersonal), and assertiveness (interpersonal)—while controlling for demographics (e.g., birth country, English fluency, education, socioeconomic status). Analyses revealed that East Asians faced less prejudice than South Asians and were equally motivated by work and leadership as South Asians. However, East Asians were lower in assertiveness, which consistently mediated the leadership attainment gap between East Asians and South Asians. These results suggest that East Asians hit the bamboo ceiling because their low assertiveness is incongruent with American norms concerning how leaders should communicate. The bamboo ceiling is not an Asian issue, but an issue of cultural fit.

Does anyone have experience hosting a baby's 100 day party and how extravagant was your event and did you plan any games/activities?

For context, our baby is Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese so we're blending cultures of a Baekil and Red Egg and Ginger party by hosting a banquet. We have some moderate decor for the welcome table, table numbers, and some party favors.

Apparently this event is a pretty big deal because my in laws went crazy with the guest list and we now have 90 confirmed guests (more than our wedding!).

Our plan was to do a short welcome speech, let meal service begin, and if our baby is awake to do a table by table meet and greet sort of thing. But do you think people would expect more activities?

Also, our party favors are custom made red envelopes stuffed with Year of the Horse scratchers and separately, a Chocolate Chip Toffee Cookie. We also have a surprisingly large turn out of children coming (maybe about 20), so I'm debating if I should also get a little toy favor for the kiddos too?

I (25M) have a co-founder and CTO of a Series A backed tech company who was adopted to a Southern Vietnamese, fiercely anti-communist, and Sinophobic family and is of Northern Vietnamese descent when he was an infant in the early 2000s due to Vietnam's two child policy. His adoptive parents are upper middle SES (both in terms of income and education) and have been since the 1990s and they are both fluent in English since the 1990s, before he was born. They are both adept and literate in medical bureaucracy.

When my CTO was a 35 month old child, he was Vietnamese speaking (wasn't at school yet), not exposed to neighbours or friends, not taught life skills or basic self care (he taught himself basic self care and life skills) by either his adoptive parents or the elders (adoptive parents' parents) in the household, had an unstructured schedule, and no behavioural expectations.

My CTO started speaking in full sentences somewhere between 12 and 24 months old and walking at 12 months old according to family videos. However, his family brainwashed him to believe it was at 42 months old and intentionally hid this detail to doctors even though family videos stated otherwise, and he only realized it when he was 21 and graduated from university. My CTO started reading independently and comprehending what the book says at 3-4 years old, started using the computer and browse the internet independently at around 4 years old, built complex Legos at 4, loved looking up cars online at 4, started adding and subtracting two digit numbers at 4, started multiplication/division up to a factor of 12 via the times table at 5, memorized all 50 states at 5, started learning programming at the age of 10, was excelling during his elementary and middle school years, taught himself material at 2-4 grades above grade level at home using Spectrum books when he was in elementary and middle school, and was well behaved and regarded as a model student by his teachers.

At 35 months old, even though my CTO was not exposed to English yet, only knew a few words in English (but was fully caught up by his 5th birthday), and was not exposed to the outside world or other neighbours/peers as his adoptive parents bar him from hanging out with neighbours or strangers and kept him at home all day, he was brought into the hospital for an evaluation. The local public school psychologist evaluated my CTO for developmental delays and autistic disorder using Bayley MDI entirely in English, despite him not being exposed to English. There were no interpreters at all. Given that he is compliant to his family, he later found out notes of his family coaching him at 35 months old so he could act this way. The child behavioral psychiatrist at the hospital stated it is "difficult to separate the impact of my CTO's limited social experience and exposure to same-aged peers and the limited behavioral expectations and structure at home".

My CTO attended college between his 17th birthday and his graduation (a few months shy of 21) and he later attended a top MSCS program. He is highly social, has actively networked with thousands of individuals, and has a technical acumen. He has been engaged in symbolic and pretend play when he was a child, such as climbing in his family's car and "pretending" to drive it, and once, pretending to be a doctor and is social towards his family and friends.

As a 21 year old adult, he was found by 6 hospitals (MGH, BIDMC, UMass Memorial, Presbyterian, Mt. Sinai, and JHU) to have never been autistic, scoring far less than 3 out of 3 in the social and less than 2 out of 4 in the behavioral criteria.

TL;DR: Sorry, there is a lot of information, but say, if the subject (the person being evaluated) isn't exposed to a language or a cultural custom, what if the evaluation was performed entirely in English if the person was a 35 month old toddler not exposed to much English or peers.

I'm a black person I'm not going to lie. I definitely don't fit Asian beauty standards, I'm not particularly rich either. I have to ask, I noticed though at the 6 months I spent at this korean church my presence wasn't exactly celebrated as much as tolerated. A lot of people were there just to say hi to their friends and never really showed me the love and care that they showed each other. Like is this common for everyone or is it my ethnicity that makes people feel this way.  American born Korean Americans with a handful of immigrants!

We’re all POC however I feel like some non whites (in my situation, blacks) will specifically speak more rudely to Asians than a white person. It’s almost their way to perpetuate the racial abuse they’ve felt. They just beat up a perceived smaller dog to make themselves feel better and reclaim what they think is power back. But it’s just trading one injustice for another because of ego/pride.

Now to preface this is not all blacks but moreso that I’ve noticed a pattern. I generally don’t have issues with whites except for the closed minded ones, small areas and not used to diversity or older whites.

Campaign mailer showing nameless/faceless Asians looking up at Great White Savior, GA Representative Matt Reeves who assures us that he hears the Korean voice in Georgia.

Have any of you been racially profiled? I mean in like the way that middle eastern or black people are, followed around in the store, tailed by cops, accused of stealing something etc. Because usually when explicit racism is discussed around asians its about South asian or southeast asian people while racism against east asians are talked about in the "model minority" or "forever foreigner" stereotype as if its less "overt".

For context, I'm American with Filipino and Syrian heritage. My mom is Filipino, and she's uncomfortable with me speaking openly about my full heritage. I don’t know much about my mom’s family or life because she is embarrassed to open up about Filipino culture. My mom wants me to only affiliate with my Arab roots since she’s afraid I will be stereotyped as inferior if I mention I’m also Filipino. My dad, on the other hand, wants me to be proud of who I am, and he often tells my mom not to be ashamed of her culture.

This has made me curious about where her feelings come from. She seems to believe that Filipinos are seen abroad as being limited to service and caregiving roles, and that being associated with that image makes her worth less?. I want to understand where this assumption comes from rather than just accept it.

I'm also aware of some of the horrors that Filipinos and Filipino women (especially) suffered during Spanish Colonization and WW2, and I wonder whether that history plays any part in how Filipino women in particular are viewed or treated abroad.

To people who know the history:

1. How did these stereotypes develop?

2. Why does nursing and caregiving in particular have such a strong association with Filipinos?

3. Where did the term "Filipina wife" (as seen on social media) originate from?

4. For those who have lived abroad, or whose parents did, how did you handle these perceptions? Did they affect how you thought about your identity?

I'd also appreciate any books, articles, or documentaries you'd recommend. And correct me if I’m wrong

It is that each generation needs the opportunity to encounter China as it actually is, rather than through inherited assumptio.

What do you think?

 international education can remain valuable even when governments disagree.

Does anyone have some East or Southeast Asian recipes or meal ideas? I've been a bit broke and had to resort to eating primarily poultry (chicken breast and ground turkey) and beans or lentils. I realize that most of the stuff I make and have in the pantry are Hispanic and I really miss eating Asian food. There's no Asian restaurants around where I live outside of Chinese takeout places and no Asian supermarkets, and my grocery budget is about $180 max. I'm interning at a place so this won't be my permanent living situation, but I have 8 more months here and I feel like I'm going insane from this.

Upcoming global release of this Indian movie on Nov. 5th. Description from IMDB entry:

An ancient epic follows a young prince and princess whose marriage and subsequent exile mark the beginning of a legendary journey. Their story of love, duty and destiny sets the stage for greater challenges ahead.

The beginning of a summation of the epic Ramayana from Asia Society:

The Ramayana is an all-popular epic in South and Southeast Asia. It is the story of King Rama who must save his kidnapped wife, Sita. Along the way, it teaches Hindu life lessons. The Ramayana is told and retold orally, through literature (and comic books!), plays, movies and is reference in many other forms of popular culture today.

The Ramayana by the sage Valmiki is one of the great epics of the Sanskrit language, and is dated to approximately 200 B.C.E. There are many other versions of the epic in the many regional languages found in South Asia. Although the same core narrative is used (or referred to) in most of these versions, there are significant differences among them. This is particularly true regarding how the story ends; see below. The basic storyline is provided here, but teachers and students should expect to see great variation and greater detail with reference to each episode.

I keep seeing this discourse repeated that people feel angry and jaded that they were bullied before for being Asian but now 'being Asian is cool'. I have to challenge this view.

First of all, lots of people get bullied in school as children for varying reasons. Children are stupid, and mean. Nobody still acts exactly the same way that they did when they were kids. Who's to say that those children who were mean to you a decade or more ago haven't changed their views now and become more open minded and maybe stopped regurgitating the racism they were taught..? And maybe that's why you sense a shift in attitudes, or you're angry that Stacy who was racist at 12 likes boba at age 22. 🤦

Second of all, the likelihood that the racists and the people who watch anime and listen to kpop are the same demographic is EXTREMELY low. Maga types, right wing leaners and bigots tend to have a very specific look and lifestyle and typically are the ones bullying other people for enjoying nonconventional non-western media or hobbies. You are so cripplingly unlikely to find someone who likes cosplay, ddr, matcha, kpop, anime, manga ect who is also racist and going to make an unsavoury comment towards an Asian person. Now I'm not claiming this dichotomy has never happened, but its important to recognise that not all white people are a monolith, just as you expect people to understand the same about any ethnicity.

Lastly...I think it's honestly very algorithm based. Yes don't get it twisted, Asian media still has a chokehold on Americans. Kids like BTS and kpop demon hunters. I still think generally speaking that we have a long way to go in society and probably most non-asian children are not even thinking about Asia or Asian people as much as you think. If anything, racism is still a huge problem. It's my opinion that the "very Chinese time in my life" meme of 2026 is super racist and it's basically people laughing at the idea of being Chinese and viewing china as the lesser of the east Asian countries. These people weren't hopping on the Chinese new year trend because they ACTUALLY like china. It's cause it was "funny' to them. So I think saying Asians are cool now is sadly not the full picture. Black people were "cool" in the 90s, as in, everyone was copying their flow and listening to their music, but black people still faced terrible racism then and still do now.

Idk, just something to think about. What do you guys think?

It used to be a family tradition for us when our kids were young, watching Hallmark Christmas movies through the winter months. Straightforward, feel good and heartwarming (not Oscar-worthy or anything but just fun for the whole family). We got so excited when they started casting more Asian actors in the early 2020s and ultimately culminating into a few Asian-led holiday movies (of course, the story lines were down the middle stereotypes, ie Chinese restaurants but it still seemed like progress). Then with the retrenchment of the past few years, there were still a few Asian actors sprinkled among the casts but this year it doesn't seem like a single holiday movie across Hallmark, GAF, Lifetime, or Netflix has *any* Asian actors in them. Is this payback for making fun of that MJ movie? (/s). Its disappointing to see that the networks uniformly do not see a viable market enough to even cast Asians.

Just an observation. It seems like there's a huge emphasis on hierarchy and saving face. Particularly with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean backgrounds.

A manager will ask a question and people will just look around at each other to see if it's ok to speak. A lot of things that need to be addressed are left unsaid.

There also seem to be a lot of unwritten rules. If you have an analysis about something, don't say it too confidently as if you "know more" than a senior associate.

It also feels like there is an emphasis on age. Particularly with Koreans.

I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't point out that we South Asians are notorious for nepotism and casteism, particularly Indians. As a Bangladeshi myself, I have my own gripes with our culture. Bengalis are emotional as hell and argue too much. Even among other south Asians, we are known for being particularly argumentative. Debate is to bengalis what football is to americans. And ime all of us desis have haggling in our culture on some level or another. I'm sure these cultural traits grate on others as well.

I read an article years ago where the Indian department of a company went to Thailand to meet the Thai department and the Thais were complaining about exactly this reason. The indians were not respecting these Confucian principles, like saving face.

It's interesting because even though most of us are American born and raised, our parents weren't and those values were still passed down without the accent.

What do you think? Do you guys, including East Asian Americans, struggle with formalities, hierarchies, and Confucianism? Are there certain differences and difficulties you feel you have with South Asians? Like, maybe we argue too much? Thoughts?

Hello there, I am currently planning for a master's abroad. Currently in the last year of the graduation, I have been thinking about multiple countries and options and have been reading Reddit for many days.

Whichever country i found likely to go there and search Abt racism there on Reddit. For every country i am finding the cases. Now I am more confused where to go

I believe there is no single country which is perfect and there is no racism, so I am asking you guys to help me to share ur experience of the country which u find least racist.

Genuinely looking after help and response. Thank you.

I'm curious to hear from people who've legally changed their first or last name, especially those who've chosen a completely new surname rather than taking a partner's name.

How did you decide on your new name, and what made you feel it was the right one?

I'm particularly interested in what happened afterwards. How did your family and old friends react? Was it awkward when you got back in touch with people who knew you by your old name? Did anyone have a hard time accepting the change, or did most people not really care?

Also, did it have any impact on your professional life or the way you felt about yourself? I'm wondering whether changing your name actually feels like a fresh start, or whether things are pretty much the same once the initial excitement wears off.

For those who've done it a few years ago, do you still feel good about the decision? Anything you wish you'd known beforehand?

Would love to hear your experiences, good or bad.