Tag Archives: Asian Americans

“Hollywood is race-blind”

Dan Lin and Lionel Wigram

Thanks to ML who sent this profile of Dan Lin, graduate of Harvard Business School and now a successful Hollywood producer: From Harvard Business School to Sherlock Holmes Producer. Asian Americans always wonder how they can best succeed in a world that seems to be hostile to Asian American inclusion, but fortunately, according to Dan Lin, Hollywood is actually race-blind:

Lin, who is a board member for the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment (CAPE) and a mentor with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), says he sees more Asian Americans in front of the camera as actors. However the producer says he would like to see more Asian Americans behind the cameras in Hollywood.

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Everyone Wants To Live Like Americans

This is my 1,000th bigWOWO post.

Of all the afterthoughts following the death of Steve Jobs and the legacy of Apple, the most interesting one I read was AskAKorean’s Can Korea Be Truly Creative? In the post, he writes about how Steve Jobs inspired Koreans to ask each other if their country could be as creative as Apple.

It’s long for a blog post, but give it a read if you have time. The conclusion “The Korean” reaches is that Korea is already creative. The reason Apple was able to do what it did, the Korean speculates, is due in large part to the fact that Apple is an American company. He writes:

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Get Shorty

I found this NY Times piece at 8A, which offers an explanation on why the AF/WM numbers are so much greater than the AM/WF numbers–Asian guys are shorter, and therefore White women don’t want to date us.  Similarly, according to the article, black women are taller, which may make White men less interested in dating them–or them less interested in dating White men.  As you can see from the comments, the article and site took a bit of a beating from readers.

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