Ken Oak
Thursday, September 1st, 2005 by TylerInterview and Concert Review
In today’s media, Asian-American’s lack a voice, leaders, and top celebrities. Asians in America comprise approximately 4.2% (11.9 million) (US Census 2000) of the US and in my estimation, that’s a large enough number to show the media that there’s actual reason to involve this section of the population.
It’s almost an eternal question: How do you know when you are home? Is it that smell, when you walk into the kitchen, of familiar home-cooked food? Perhaps it’s the sounds of people you know simply talking amongst each other? Whatever it might be for you… that is what makes it so difficult to leave home.
The articles were primarily experience based, thereby introducing our writers to you the reader. I think it’s quite important to get a feel for whose writing you are reading, or whose photographs you are viewing to perhaps understand on another level the process behind the piece. This time around, we’ve decided to spin content a […]
It’s always difficult to express feelings, and because of this, people sometimes get mixed signals. This is definitely true when it comes to ethnicity and race matters. In this world, we now must be increasingly wary of how we express our thoughts, and how we act and react. Thus becoming increasingly difficult to simply speak.
It’s not so much that people occasionally speak loudly to me because they think that in doing so I’ll understand them better. It’s more that they don’t understand that even if I didn’t know a word of English, the volume of their voice makes zero impact on my comprehension.