My music is always called "cerebral. " It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.
There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America. There's the United States of America.
Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'
They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him. ' That's how it's been my whole life.
For me, the Asian financial crisis of 1998 and the war in Kosovo in 1999 are the prelude to the integral accident.
The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially.
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.
They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!
I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the other category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.
We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes!
I am interested in garnering the white vote, and the black vote, and the Latin vote, and the Asian vote, and the business vote, and the labor vote.
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L. A. , there are people who have never tried Indian food. . . they've never even tasted it!
Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.
A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.
But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am.
I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.