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All posts tagged "NPR"

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  [NPR] In its season finale, ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ is still wrestling with authenticity

  In Fresh Off The Boat’s season finale, Jessica, the family matriarch, worries over whether or not she and her kids have assimilated too much. The Huangs had been struggling to make ends meet, and now all...

  • Posted April 22, 2015
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  [NPR] How Asian Americans found a home in the world of K-pop

    It’s no secret that the Korean entertainment industry’s prime export — K-pop — is now a global phenomenon. But for what’s considered a largely Asian hit-making machine, it’s Americans who are often headlining the groups....

  • Posted April 14, 2015
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  [NPR] A Brief, Weird History Of Squashed Asian-American TV Shows

    ABC’s new family sitcom Fresh Off The Boat is making big waves in the conversation about how Asian-Americans are depicted on TV in the U.S. — which, for the most part, is sparsely. “Culturally, we...

  • Posted February 6, 2015
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  [NPR] Diversity In Space: Tracking The First Asian Pilot In The Star Wars Movies

    “There’s … too many of them,” a Y-wing pilot says as Imperial ships overwhelm the Rebel fleet in the climactic space battle in Return of the Jedi. This scene is important because we’ve just learned...

  • Posted January 2, 2015
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  [NPR] Being Thin Doesn’t Spare Asian Americans From Diabetes Risk

  We know that you can be fat while still fit, but how about skinny and unhealthy? This may be the case for many Asian Americans who look slim, but actually face a higher risk of diabetes...

  • Posted December 26, 2014
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  NPR to open Seoul bureau next year

  U.S. public radio network NPR will establish a bureau in Seoul and launch it next year, the station announced this week. “We are delighted to announce the opening of a bureau in Seoul,” Christopher Turpin, NPR’s acting...

  • Posted October 31, 2014
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  [NPR] In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas

   In the years after the Korean War, more than 160,000 Korean children — the population of a midsize American city — were sent to adoptive homes in the West. What began as a way to quietly remove...

  • Posted September 9, 2014
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