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.

Four years ago this month, the tragic events of 9/11 unfolded to the world. Many spectators watched in horror as the planes, piloted by suicidal terrorists flew straight into the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the Twin Towers to collapse. Thousands of people died and tens of thousands of people mourned for their loved ones who passed away.

If you asked a Chinese person if they felt that a Taiwanese person was Chinese, they would most likely respond that they were. However, if I knew someone was Taiwanese, I would never dare ask them if they felt they were Chinese.

I feel that simply having faith is more important than collecting religious paraphernalia; a spiritual faith without an expiration date attached because life is full of changes. There was a ten year gap from when I last stepped out of a church before I visited another church. This visit was about five years ago, when a friend invited me to attend a church revival.

On February 16, 2005, four days before then vice president Arroyo’s oath-taking as the new president of the republic, people went in droves to the Edsa Shrine, site of the historic 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution.

Stereotypes are specific schemas we use in order to save time while processing information. Rather than come up with new schemas whenever we meet someone, we just use the stereotype we have stored in our memories. So, while it is true that stereotypes are sometimes based on fact, they are often distorted by the biases surrounding the individual.

Summer of 1992. I was about to spend my 7th birthday in China, a remote and distant place that I was to visit for the very first time in my life. Little could I foresee what this country held.

Growing up in a Chinese family, you never hear enough stories about how it was back then—at least not according to my parents. They love to talk about the old days and that’s how it was all the time.

It was already evening by the time I arrived. People were streaming down the hill. Could the temple already be closed? This was my last chance, I knew, though also my second chance.

“You Americans will look at us with fear and then, you will respect us.” I do not totally agree with those two statements. The United States already fears China. How can anyone not fear a country that has one-sixth of the world’s population?