The Ethnic Studies Department proudly announces the Third Multicultural Art and Library Display, organized by students taking courses in the Asian/Asian American Studies (AAAS) program at Laney College. The goal of the visual and mixed media presentation is to engage the campus community by showcasing course project work.
162 students have been diligently working in small groups over the last five weeks to design and develop their team projects.
The theme of the library display is “Asian Pacific American Untold Stories: What Don’t You Know? Why Don’t You Know it?” Student generated topics and research questions focus on current issues relevant to the Asian Pacific American experience today. They have been working collaboratively inside and outside the classroom, many of whom have been conducting interviews using social science research skills, doing outreach by contacting local community organizations and analyzing visual media in order to prepare and produce their educational, political, historical and cultural displays.
The Laney College AAAS Library Display will start on Monday, October 8th and wrap up on Monday, October 15, 2012. The library hours are: Monday-Thursday, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, and Friday 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM (closed on weekends). We invite you to visit the library, main floor, to browse, share and enjoy our multicultural art installation. Please help us celebrate the contributions of Asian Pacific Americans to the diversity and history of the United States.
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I told untold stories about two hate crimes that lead to two young Asian American’s death. I compared and contrasted about their situations, and found that when it comes to racism there are a lot of similarities why people hate. It is very significant that people learn to respect and understand other peoples’ culture and lifestyle. That was why I wanted to do my project on the victims who were affected by hate crimes.
F.S.
My group was searching the ten popular musical Instrument. It’s pleasure to listen different kinds of sound from these musical instrument. I searched about KongHou and Xun. They both have a long, “pride” history. Tradition musical instrument gave you sound effect on harmony. Nowadays, music has different kinds of effect which is generated from computer. It potentially destroyed our hearing system. Therefore, we need to hear some traditional music to adjust our balance of recognition on music.
I like to watch film so I take ASAME 30 course. I love the teaching method that teacher, Janine Fujioka show in the class.My classmates and me have been diligently working in small groups over the last five weeks to design and develop our team projects. I tell Zhou xun’s biography as “untold” Asian Pacific American story. Zhou Xun is an internationally acclaimed Chinese actress and singer.I find lot of imformation about Zhou Xun, such as her representative film, early life, actiing career, relationship between she and Zhao Baogang who is a famous direcor in China, Singing career, Charity ambassador and her love story. I want to share this story because I love Zhou Xun’s film and admire her special talent on acting. At the same time, I want to share Zhou Xun’s film and story to people who want to know Asian culture.
It is a very meaningful thing that we join
“Third Multicultural Art and Library Display”. I have learned a lot from this course. Thanks for MS. Janine Fujioka and our classmates. Donna Shuhong He.
I believe the untold story we presented tells us the views of western war films on Asian Americans. Which we found out had many biases and one sided views toward the conflicts, In the Aspect that in war films such as “Full Metal Jacket” and “Platoon” you can see how violent and derogatory the soldiers are too Asian Americans in the films whether its toward to opposition or innocent villagers, which I feel do affect the minds of the viewers in a way. Also not to say there isn’t great films that show the viewers both sides of the opposition such as “We Were Soldiers” which shows the tragic battle between two great generals one from the U.S and another from Vietnam who are very similar in the aspect that they both are fighting to protect each other’s life. I believe it is important to know that there are movies out there with certain biased views on subjects and it is important not to let them shape your thoughts, there is always two side to the story. A. A
In yimou zhang’s four films, they reflex that Chinese in old day faced a lot of difficulties including death, starvation and poverty. At that time, civilian became victims by factions within China and seconds Sino-Japanese war. In four films (Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, Ju Dou), red is noticeable color. Red symbolizes that Chinese people have hopes for the future. Women were repressive under the tradition. It meant that men were leading the world. Though four films, it is important for us to understand that freedom, democracy and having better life did not fall from sky. Generations and generations have fought for them.
Our group decided to explore common superstitions in three Asian countries: China, Vietnam, and Myanmar. We came up with this topic because we feel like their beliefs still influences their decisions making process and their lives on daily basis wherever they settle down. Throughout the research and group gathering, we find out that some of the superstitions in those countries are similar and can be related to while others are totally unusual and unreasonable. It is important to learn about various superstitions from different cultural backgrounds because knowing their beliefs can help us better understand each other and assist in communication.
The untold Asian Pacific American story I presented on was the lack of accurate Asian American representation in the media. YouTube provides an outlet for Asian Americans, primarily descendants of immigrant parents, to express themselves through digital media. Often we are labeled nothing more than a model minority, as we struggle to assimilate with our peers in the United States while maintaining a sense of culture. YouTube allows that balance to be held. Through YouTube, Asian Americans are able to show that we are capable of being normal, everyday people, not just token figures cast for a cheap laugh. Why should we passively sit by and let others take the spotlight? We are not afraid to be seen. It’s important for Asian Americans to share our stories to establish that we are more than our stereotypes.
PH
I found out that many of the Indian parts of the Asian Americans died of racial profiling. After 9/11, many of the Aarabians had been killed because only they had long beards and head turbans. That caught my attention causing me to realize how messed up society is now a days. I t is important to know about these stories because our country is a lie. We need to realize the issues and terrors that are happening that are untold.
I told the untold asian american study of unknown asian american athletes in the 2012 olympics. I found that there were many asian americans in the 2012 olympics and was surprised at the amount. I also found many of their stories were very intriguing. I think its important to share this so more asian americans rise up to the challenge of the olympics and follow their dreams. Its also important because many people lose their dream and maybe these inspiring stories will bring them some hope.
In the library display, our group did the description of ten musical instruments from three countries of Asia;China, Mongolia and Nepal. We put in at least three pictures of a single instrument in the display. The three pictures of each instruments was the image of the instrument and also people playing that instrument. We did it so that people who looked into our display at the library would know how these instruments were actually played. We tried to make our display more visual and colorful rather than stuff it with a lot of text. People obviously look more into images than reading the whole description. Our group really had a nice time working on the whole project of revealing the untold. We found out that those musical instruments had social and cultural ties to the particular society. I felt that sharing about the musical instruments from Asia could say a lot about a particular country. On top of that it shows that the Asian have their own culture and identity.
In Asian pacific American story, we told the similarities and difference among four films that are directed by Yimou Zhang. We focused on four aspects which are politics, urbanization, color image, and woman’s issues to explore. Mostly, His stories were enigmatic fables related to the reality of veiled politics in the pass. I think it is important to share, because his films reflect the old society, and it would be a good way to explore and understand the culture of china.
I learn to study Asian Film at Laney College. Our term members came to different country. We have the different cultures. We display different kinds of marriage, lucky and unlucky, new year habit. We are the strong organization and more information.
The untold Asian American story that we covered was that of Asian American Olympians. The first thing i thought that it would be hard to find ten athletes. Instead i realized that there were more than enough for each set of olympics. I was a bit surprised at how many of them were also women. They also covered almost all the sports. We were able to find more than ten untold stories and eventually had to choose which ones we wanted to use. We also didn’t only choose medal winners because those are the stories that are always told.
The only male we choose was Sammy Lee who was a great Olympic diver in the 40’s. We also discovered that he is still alive today, and was also a Olympic coach for other divers after him. The biggest thing I discovered was how charitable most of these athletes are. They tend to give a lot of their time helping others. One big surprise i found out that was Natalie Coughlin i did not realize that she was a quarter Filipina.
I told the students to know about 10 laney staff. I found their information such as where they from?, what do they do at laney. I think this important because i want the students know about them. they are very thoughtful and helpful. all the students if need help, just go to ask them help.
I told “untold” story about ten famous chinese directors.I found their background information,famous movies, how many awards did they get, what kind of style do they directe,their purpose and so on.
I think this class is asian american film. so it’s so important to know more about film directors.
We have teachers in school, instructors in the arts, and coaches in sports, all types of mentors that help their students succeed. The same thing applies to the arts, particularly film. In the making of a film, the director is a type of creative leader and mentor, not only to the actors or crew, but also to the story. He shapes it and directs its creativity.Thus, I think it’s better for you to learn this class better if you know more about film directors.
From this project, I have learned many things that I didn’t know before. An untold Asian pacific America story I told is three countries, China, Vietnam, Myanmar’s superstition. When I did it, I found out China has more superstition things than I thought. Also, I know about some superstition of other countries. Nowadays, many young people don’t know what superstition is. Some of the people know that, but they don’t believe that and forget it little by little. Even though superstition is not scientific, I think it is one part of country culture. We should know about it and let more people know about it. That’s why it’s important to share this story.
From this project, I have learned many things that I didn’t know before. An untold Asian pacific America story I told is three countries, China, Vietnam, Myanmar’s superstition. When I did it, I found out China has more superstition things than I thought. Also, I know about some superstition of other countries. Nowadays, many young people don’t know what superstition is. Some of the people know that, but they don’t believe that and forget it little by little. Even though superstition is not scientific, I think it is one part of country culture. We should know about it and let more people know about it. That’s why it’s important to share this story.
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When the idea of Asian Entertainers appears, the first thought that comes to mind would be Martial Arts. However, not all Asians are familiar with martial arts, but it’s a stereotype that perceives us as Asians. The main goal of our project was to open up the eyes of other people to be able to see that we Asian Americans have numerous other talents! Some of us are able to sing in a wonderful tone that’ll make your body melt, while others may be able to blow your mind with our outrageously, courageous dance moves, or maybe leave an innocent bystander dumbfounded with our amazing artistic skills. We’re not implying that only Asians are capable of achieving these skills. We’re implying that we’re just like everybody else in the world, an empty vessel waiting to find our special talent.
I told the Asian Pacific American story was Zhang Yimou’s films. His films were very famous in China. I find something was very difference in our live such as the women’s status. The old women were very hard to live in the old society. They didn’t have any choose by themselves.They only could follow their parent’s arrangement. This stories are important to share because some people who born in America they don’t know the old women how to live in the old society in China. Zhang Yimou’s films were a good way that let them to understand the culture of China.
The untold Asian pacific American story that I told was about my dad being an officer during the Vietnam War. His name is Muoi Luong and he also happened to be a surgeon. He was following the colonel during the war. He said that he was afraid during the war because people would hide in the bushes with snipers and assault rifles. My dad said that he was a huge fan of Adolf Hitler, who was a very powerful and strong leader. I found out that my dad had his riches in Vietnam before he moved back to the US. I think that it is important to share this story to spread the information of how significant Asian Pacific Americans can be. We need to spread the knowledge of how Asian Americans changed the world. This story is important to me because my dad luckily survived the war and moved back to the US. If my dad never made it out the war then I would not be alive. This story is told because my father is a hero in my heart.
As we live in The United states, we learn the common names of the wealthy people of the west. We have not noticed the wealthy people in the East. The wealthy people of the east also have a major impact on the global economy but since we are from the west, we tend not to learn about them. I have learned that rich people are rich people. Some people are of no use to society, and don’t give back. Others try to give back, and help others out. These stories are not well known, they have an impact on how we live. These people do influence our lives whether we know it or not. So we should learn who they are.
A.Y.
In the past five weeks,I was working in small groups to design and develop our team projects.We introduced some of China (Hong Kong) dramas.For example:Moonlight Resonance.This is a big traditional family story.People can know about the Chinese family.
Because my English is not very good, so in this time in the PROJECT,I don’t need to collection the information, I only told everybody about my real family story.This is my story:When my daughter was a child, she always didn’t do the homework, just watching the TV.But she need to do the homework. So I turned off the TV, and told her must do the homework.When I turned off the TV, she was very angry and didn’t eat anything.
Whenever, I was worried about her but I still insisted my opinion. Now she was grew up, she began to understand why I would did it before. And she was very thankful for my strict request.
Now, I am very happy and gratified about her understanding. In this PROJECT, I have a lot of feelong, At first, my group of people are very lazy, no one is willing to do the display.
Finally because of the teacher’s request to punish us in this before 8 PM into the DISPLAY board,So we will try our best in limited time with the limited resources to accomplish.But after completion of this, we all feel a lot of feeling of success.I want to show all about my country to all people,let people konow abot my country.And I want everybody konw about the family love,family is the most important relation for us.So we want to share this story for people.
Our group decided to explore common superstitions in three Asian countries: China, Vietnam, and Myanmar. We came up with this topic because we feel like their beliefs still influences their decisions making process and their lives on daily basis wherever they settle down. Throughout the research and group gathering, we find out that some of the superstitions in those countries are similar and can be related to while others are totally unusual and unreasonable. It is important to learn about various superstitions from different cultural backgrounds because knowing their beliefs can help us better understand each other and assist us in communication. SC
Hey! I love how the Ethnic Studies Department that the Asian/Asian American Studies (AAAS) program at Laney College showed a course project work. I like this project. We were hard working with theme “Asian Pacific American Untold Stories”. Stories told about all the Asian cultures that exist in the world and in America. From these stories we are current issues relevant to the Asian Pacific American experience today. Excellently, YouTube’s Asian Channel! They focused in the Asian American community on You Tube Channel
We talked about 10 of the staffs in Laney. It is interesting understand the successful people. We learned about their stories in the US. I want to share my view about the US, the people. I want people appreciate them helps.
I had interviewed these 10 people, Chai Vern Saechao, Cynthia Tajing, Tomoko Rouchebush, Lilian Chow, Nancy Lu, Kathy Tran, Vu Phan, Vanessa Lam, Tammy Nguyen and Muy Ung who all work at Laney College. They are very hard working people and they try their best to make things different. They are kind to all students, and they work very patiently with students. They are extraordinary and passionate and do amazing jobs. They are very grateful and supportive to all students. They gives advice and guide students to the right directions. These programs are great services to meet students need.
If student use these services and follow the directions, they are put on the right track and can be success for their future. I think these programs and services are very important to all students. I am highly recommending these services to all students at Laney. The student should go visit to learn about their services. They always have special services for students who have special needs.
-Y.C.
The untold story that my team and I did were hate crimes/discrimination against Asian Americans. We found plenty hate crime cases all across the nation. Many of these stories that we researched were appalling. The people that committed these hate crimes were cold, heartless. I couldn’t even begin to think of that happening to one of my loved ones or to myself even. To share these stories with as many as we can is important because the people it happened to deserve to be acknowledged for the horrible things they went through. We should all be educated about the racism our ancestors encountered.
A. My group project was about Asian ten music instruments from Mongolia, Nepal, and Chinese. All instruments have related with origin country’s history and culture. Even though Asia has many countries, there have similar instruments. For example: that three countries all have violin style instruments. Which mean Asian base of the culture and history same. I was surprised when we were working on this project because three countries have a similar culture base.
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B. It is important to share this story because we have to know about our countries culture and history even we are living in America. Also, our kids have to realize and understand where their parents come from. It is a discovering Asian American history.
A. My group project was about Asian ten music instruments from Mongolia, Nepal, and Chinese. All instruments have related with origin country’s history and culture. Even though Asia has many countries, there have similar instruments. For example: that three countries all have violin style instruments. Which mean Asian base of the culture and history same. I was surprised when we were working on this project because three countries have a similar culture base.
B. It is important to share this story because we have to know about our countries culture and history even we are living in America. Also, our kids have to realize and understand where their parents come from. It is a discovering Asian American history.
we told the story of untold stories from the gaming business. we mostly did the asian and asian american contributions to gaming. most of the worlds most popular games are mode by asians. most all the characters in games are western despite being made by asians. i thought it was important to share this as it affects the self image of all asians.
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This project made me learned a lot of things. We used a lot of time to improved our powerpoint and display-board again and again. At that time, I with my teams member have a good relationship because we were work together. My group of theme is about Chinese family love. In our display-board, we use many photos, all is about the family, and put that to mix a big heart.
My position is research a film called “the joy luck club.” This is about 4 Chinese immigrant women and their 4 American-born daughters. Have a once, the four immigrants meet at the Chinese church in San Francisco and agree to continue to meet to play Mah Jong. They call their Mah Jong group the Joy Luck Club.
Why I want to share this film to you, because I want people to know about their life( the immigrants people), How they lives hard in the second country. Especially about they are how to get along with their sons/daughters.
A) Our powerpoint shows Chinese films and the famous chinese directors. For example, Zhang Yimou is good at direction of art film.<>-2004 martial arts film directed by Zhang Yimou. It differs from other martial arts films in that it is more of a love story than a straight martial arts film.
B) I want to share an interesting fact with you. These directors became well-known in their late 30’s.They all have their signature directing styles and like cooperating with certain actors or actresses and their styles are also widely different.
My team worked on the project, titled “Superstitions,” basing on ten elements such as lucky and unlucky numbers, animals, relationship, marriage, new year, funeral, dates, color, gifts, and rituals in three Asian countries: VietNam, China, and Myanmar. After finishing this project, I realized that there are many new and interesting things that I have not known. We compared and recognized that three countries have the some similar and different believes. Some superstitions are believed to bring luck and happy for people in one country, but in other countries they are viewed as bad things.
What I found when working on this project is that each country has its own culture and belief basing on the experience that was formed and kept in a very long time. However, the final purpose of the superstitions is to bring a happy and long life for all people.
I think it is important to tell these stories. The reason is that sharing these stories will help not only my all team members but also all people to more understand about the Asian cultures and have better communication to each other although we have different cultures and backgrounds.
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The “untold” Asian Pacific American story that I found interesting was the story about Katherine Sui Fun Cheung. Before I do the research, all I know about her was the fact that she was the first Chinese American woman who becomes a licensed pilot. After I did the research, I admired her persistence of doing the things that she wants to do. She rather gave up her talented and studied something that she wasn’t capable of. The reason why I choose to share this story is because I think this is a very good anecdote or example to encourage those people who are suffering or trying to give up their goals, nothing is impossible in this world, we should always turn obstacles into miracles, just like what Katherine did!
JH
My group told the story of 10 Asian American successful fashion designers. I found out that each designer had their own reasons that got them into fashion, such as family or it was something that interested them. A few of our designers either worked or had family who worked in the fashion industry.
There are many reasons why we should tell their story. One of which is to tell us that we should follow our dreams, do what we want not what someone else wants. Another is to not let others put you down, persevere in what you do and it will succeed in the long run.
The “untold” story that I presented was about the great minds behind the vastly popular video game franchise, Pokemon. I was able to uncover its creator, Satoshi Tajiri and the life he lived which has led to the creation of a house hold name. I was able to find out the troubles he had and his influences that has allowed him to be so successful. The importance of this is to acknowledge the person behind such an amazing series. Pokemon has not only shaped the gaming industry but has also effected American society, especially our youth you use the lessons of relationships and importance of friends and how to treat them. C.S.
My name is akram saleh and what talked about Asian pacific Americans untold stories about religion and the different religions and cultures .during the process of the project the professors assigned groups and my group decided to tell the untold religions asia and also to tell the class of what we think that they don’t know which were 10 religions in Asia.
We told the story of 10 Untold Asian-American Fashion Designers. I found that each individual had their own unique ways entering the fashion business. Also I found out that their inspirations for clothing lines vary from objects to personality and etc. It is important to share these stories to inform and or inspire the Asian-American community to pursue their dreams and aspiration. Also another important reason to share these stories is to acknowledge those who achieved something, but who are not recognized for it.
Hi my name is abdi Ahmed I was recently involved Asame45 untold story’s. my group consist of fours other, the idea that me and my group came up with was to tell the class the untold religions in Asian Pacific Americans some of the religion that we pick was already familiar to the class so therefore, we stayed fair away from Islam and Christianity and the commly known religions. Instead we approached the religions that weren’t familiar to us and to our peers. End the result we presented the master piece to the class hoping to enlighten them with unusual religions in Asian that they have not heard of.
Abdi Ahmed
This project,I told story about famous Chinese direct.I found director the background.Each director how many award did they get.I have learned many things that I don’t know before.
I thank it’s important to share this story to know more about famous director and different cultures.
My “untold” Asian Pacific American story project was “ Four Films of Zhang Yimou”. I wanted to let people know Zhang Yimou’ early films and how his early films influenced China. I found he likes to use red color and the color has imagery in each film. Also, I found his films all as a veiled allegory against authoritarianism. It is important to share this story because Zhang’s early films recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity, and we can through his films to explored how women were fighting the old tradition.
-To Professor Fujioka, I know I’m like 1 hour late on this, but I still did the blog just for you.
-I learn a lot that I didn’t know before from this group project. Me and my group did the project on the unknown Asian American Athletes who represented Team USA in this past 2012 Olympics. It was interesting to find that there were at least about 20 different Asian American competing in the Olympics. I found that they were all from different cultures. I did a research on Nathan Adrian (a swimmer) who competed in the Olympics and still attends Cal University, who would of knew?!
-I think its important to share this story because not many people may think that so many Asians can actually compete in the Olympics. I mean if they’re good at what they’re doing then I don’t see why they can’t compete. This inform people that Asian American can compete as much as others.
K.H.
Our group project is “The Wealthiest People in 10 Countries of Asia/South Asia”. I did research on Japan & Thailand. Now I know who the richest person in these countries is, how do they become rich, and what do they do for their community. It’s important for Asian American to get more information about the Asian countries, and people may get ideas of being rich from those wealthier as well.
An untold Asian Pacific American story that i told is about the interesting facts of marriage life in ten Asian countries. There are so many different interesting things that i have not known before. The cultural, or traditional wedding ceremonies are not the same in each country. For example, in China, bride and groom mostly wear their traditional red dress; also, they decorate their houses with red color which is considered the happiness. The bride is also given a lot of jewelries such as, necklaces, earring, or ring which make from gold instead of gift or money.To share this story helps me get more knowledge about the culture and tradition of some Asian countries that i love.
Our group work on the project named “Marriage life of Asian couples”. We do the research on 10 sample countries: Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Japan, India, South Korea, Pakistan, Brunei, Saudi Arabia. Through our work, we found out a lot of interesting facts that we believe many of us haven’t even heard. For example, the fact that majority of Japanese women today strive to give birth without the use of painkillers because of the belief that labor pain will act as a test that they have to endure in preparation for the challenging role of motherhood. Or the fact that Arab women are not allow to interact with any man except her guardian ( her father, brother or husband). so, in order to avoid breaking the rule, there is a solution that they breastfeed that man to make a symbolic maternal bond. However, the rule doesn’t state clearly that the man drink milk from a glass or directly from the woman breast? People understand the rule differently which lead to some odd circumstances.
I think the information that our group sharing to everyone is helpful and necessary for our class. Learn more about other countries’ culture and customs help us improve our knowledge as well as our confidence in communication which is necessary for our work and social relationship.
Our group has researched the top 10 richest Asians in the world. The research purpose was to show how the wealthy Asians established strong presences in the world, and how they give some back to society. Through the research, I found out that although Asian population is growing in the world, it is still not popular to see many Asians at the top of the wealthiest list. Also, most of the wealthiest Asians are only living in Asia, not in the western cultural countries. It seems that there are still income disparities between the races in the world. The positive thing that I found was most of the top 10 wealthiest Asians are trying to improve their countries’ difficult situations by making donations or establishing the non-profit organizations. It is important to know that the wealthy are not only focused on their benefit, but they also encourage improving their society.
M.H
We worked on a project of discovering the untold story of the marriage life in 10 Asian countries. And we found out that a lot of those countries have similarities in their wedding culture. some of them are good but some of them are too traditional. young people nowadays they want to keep part of their traditional culture and adapt it to the western modern style. i think it is good for them.
A) My group presentation was about rice and food associated with it. We discussed how deep rice was embedded in many Asian cultures. Rice has been used in many important Asian ceremonies as symbols of luck, wealth, and fertility…Not only rice is popular in Asian countries, its popularity is being increased in the United States because when Asian moved here, they brought rice with them.
B) We wanted to tell the story about rice because we think that it is necessary for us to talk about the most important ingredient of our daily diet. Rice is eaten at least once a day in every Asian household. T.N
My group did our project on China,Vietnam,and Myanmar superstitious. We find that all three of them have very different superstitions. We did their numbers,rituals, holidays, and religions. We did their lucky/unlucky numbers, their kinds of animals, their marriage,their colors, and special dates. This was a very nice project that we did. It was very good team work. JL
Our project focused on racial and ethnic identity in American films: specifically, is it okay for non-Asian actors to portray Asian characters? We took a random survey and found that responses were mixed: some pollees felt that believability should be the determining factor and others stated that any actor playing a character of another race was unacceptable. The question of actors playing a different ethnicity also had a range of responses and we were unable to find any clear trend among the responses. However the most interesting part of this project for me wasn’t the questions we answered but the questions our research raised. For example: how does one define race and ethnicity; how are those definitions shaped by political, social and economic influences; does the media reflect or shape our views on race and ethnicity; if we as an audience require that actors only play characters of the same race and ethnicity, is that a form of discrimination; what roles would people of mixed heritage play; and many more. Each of these unanswered questions is a story waiting to be told. Before this project I never thought to ask these questions, now I look forward to hearing the answers.
My group presented the 10 Famous Firsts by Chinese-Americans. We searched how they became successful in their adept field and their hidden contribution. From this presentation, we found that some Firsts faced the difficulties and discrimination when they immigrated to the U.S, but they all surmounted it and got the respect from others. This point can inspire the future generations to work much harder. That’s why we share these stories to everyone. In fact, all these are inspiring stories.
My group presented the 10 Famous Firsts by Chinese-Americans. We searched how they became successful in their adept field and their hidden contribution. From this presentation, we found that some Firsts faced the difficulties and discrimination when they immigrated to the U.S, but they all surmounted it and got the respect from others. This point can inspire the future generations to work much harder. That’s why we share these stories to everyone. In fact, all these are inspiring stories.
My group topic is the horror movie! We choice 10 movies. The 5 movies from original and 5 movies were remade from the American. I want student can compari that which one looks scare and which one looks better. There also have the movies summary on the board, people can know what happen in the movie.
I think it is important because it can allow people to experience the charm of the horror movie.
My group presented the 10 Famous Firsts by Chinese-Americans. We searched how they became successful in their adept field and their hidden contribution. From this presentation, we found that some Firsts faced the difficulties and discrimination when they immigrated to the U.S, but they all surmounted it and got the respect from others. This point can inspire the future generations to work much harder. That’s why we share these stories to everyone. In fact, all these are inspiring stories.
SXJ
My project is about 10 common superstition in 3 countries Viet nam, Myamar and China. Through my project i can learn a lot of thing about cultural, social, and custom.i think it important for people improve their education.im interesting when i study in this class. It’s wonderful
Our group project is “The Wealthiest People in 10 Countries of Asia/South Asia”. I did some research on South Korea and Indonesia.I’m interested in how they become rich. Now I know who is richest person in these countires.I think it’s important to share so that we know what they have done in order to gain their status today.
Our group project is “The Wealthiest People in 10 Countries of Asia/South Asia”.I did some research on Korea and Indonesia.Now I Know who is the richest person in these countries.i’m interested in how they become rich. In fact, I think it is important to share how they gained their status so that we can follow their path.
Our group asked the question of whether race is relevant in films and in the casting of films. We created a survey and asked folks on campus and around Oakland to share their thoughts. I expected to see that most people would be offended or upset if their race, or even ethnicity, were portrayed by an actor that was not from the same race/ethnic group. Our results did not reflect that sentiment and were somewhat inconclusive. We concluded from our survey data that because there are so many factors that go into how people identify themselves, there was no clear yes/no answers for those questions, and that concepts of race/ethnicity are very fluid and inconsistent. This is important because it shows how we identify ourselves is constantly changing, especially in the U.S. in this day and age.
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Our presentation is about Asian horror movies which were remade in American version. We watched both versions and tried to see what are similarities and differences. I noticed that some of them follow the atmosphere and styles of the original version. For example, they use the same actress as the original one. Some movies is changed the ending of the movies or add more characters in the story. Some movies use the similar location as the original just changed the actors from Asian to American. I think watching movie give us more than entertainment. For me, it likes a communication process from the film maker and audience. Remaking a movie from Asian by American is interesting in the way of how they going to revise the story for different group of audience. Also the way they use to interpret and translate the story to the audiences. It’s complicate to remake a movies from a perspective of a culture to another culture. SW.
my group decided to do our project on the different waves of international music such as k-pop, cantopop and j-pop and whether or not students at laney college had adopted or heard of any of the artists we listed. we listed artists from all the listed genres, and we discovered that one of the artists, PSY was the most well known. the reason i think that it turned out that way was because PSY was able to break into the american market with a catchy song that everone likes, but also the internet played a huge part because people are able to see it and share it with other people. the most important part about the project i felt like was to get people to know what music in asian countries sound, how they are differ from the more popular music in america. music in asia is very good and has had trouble breaking into the american market and i feel like artists can break into the american market if given the chance and if people accepted them, i like cantonese music alot and i feel that since the advent of the internet and youtube,people have the capablities to listen asia music because its just like american music just in another language.
The untold Asian pacific American story that I told was about how the first Chinese Americans became famous and how successful they are. As we all know, to be success is not easy and you should keep working for what you believe or what you want. So that I found about even if them are successful now but they also have a period of hard work in the past. It is inevitable to feel hard during to keep working until to be sussecc so that I think it is important to share their story. Because of we need to reference the example of their success and also upgrade ourselves.
The title of project we did was Famous Firsts (1900-Today)by Asian Americans.We explained ten famous Chinese Americans. Moreover,we showcased the contributions in their field. We did the project since we consider these ten people were successful in their field. We can take encouragement from their stories.
My group explored and researched about the background and origin of rice. We also looked into the traditions, symbols/symbolic meanings, and foods from several ethnic countries that are associated with rice. Moreover, we also tried to demystify the stereotype of “All Asians love or eat rice.” My group wanted to inform students about the popularity of rice and the consumption and production rates of rice as well. From my research, I have found a lot of new information that I did not knew before about rice. To begin with, I already knew that there were many different types of rice that exist, but I did not know that there is a total of at least 140,000 different varieties of rice. The next thing that I found was the traditions and symbols that are associated with rice. Before working on this project, I had an idea of some of the rice traditions and symbols, but researching on the specific topic gave me a more clear and better understanding for what rice is used for and how it is used.
I think it is important to share this story because even though some may not really care about the topic, I feel that they are not informed about the different types of rice that exist and don’t understand the concept of rice. Some may not be aware that there rice are associated with other ingredients as well, such as rice noodle, rice paper, and rice flour. Also, some may assume that rice is only used for eating, when really it is associated with a lot of traditions and symbols in different cultures and is used in a variety of ways.
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Our group was trying to figure out if Laney students adopted the mainstream accustoms of Japanese, Korean, or Chinese pop culture. We conducted this research by creating a survey that consist of twelve artists and questions. From the survey we would be able to conclude which of artists are well known, the general feeling and reaction to these diverse pop culture.
My group explored actors playing different racial and ethnical identities and its relevancy to today’s society. My group discussed many various and associated topics and questions about this topic. For example, we were talking if it is relevant for the actor to portray different race/ethnicity than his own. Since history definitely provided us with some examples such as Mr. Yunioshi from “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, we asked ourselves if audience still feels upset and uncomfortable when white actors play minorities, even though Asian ethnicities are no longer minorities in the US. We questioned if actors in their professions have the right to portray whom they want and how come the producers still feel to cast the white actors for most of the leading roles in American films, even though the race/ethnicity of the character is not the same of the actor. We created survey asking people how they feel about actors portraying different races/ethnicities and by that invading the culture of that race/ethnicity. Our data turned out almost equal saying that half felt that it was invasive and racist and half didn’t care. As we were creating the questions and surveying people we found that people don’t have unified ideas about what race and ethnicity represents and even the scientists don’t have one general definition. It was clear that countries, especially right now in the global connection, create and use their own definitions, and it is becoming more difficult to identify race and ethnicity especially since people are moving across the globe and intermarriage becomes more accepted.
I think that our project’s outcome was important to share because we expected to have data showing that it is racist for actors to play other races/ethnicities than their own, but it wasn’t true. Maybe it is because we live in the Bay Area, and we are used to see people of many races/ethnicities, so our minds are more opened. If we would live perhaps in the center of the US, our data would show more one way results.
Our board and our PowerPoint presentation concentrated mostly on images and comparison of actors and actresses in their real life version and movie portrayal. Some of the actors wore heavy makeup and imitated Asians, specifically Katherine Hepburn in the Dragon Seed, and some didn’t. Maybe projecting that it is unnecessary to go that far to bring up the life of various races/ethnicities for the audiences’ imagination. We also had our survey data organized in chart pies and general definitions of race and ethnicity on the display.
EK
My group did our presentation on Asian video game developers, as well as Asian video games. Our group found that a number of people and video games had a large impact on our American society. We had also found information that most Americans have never known about our “stories”. It is important to reference the people and games because there is a very large influence on the world, but specifically America. For example, much of the youth in this country revolve around the gaming industry. JF
Our project is “Marriage life in 10 Asian Countries”. The untold story that we tell is the differences in marriage life in 10 Asian countries about religion, culture, health science, family and legislation. For example, candy is fed to Pakistani marriage couples to wish them a sweetness life.
I think it is really important to share the stories because we can learn about the Asian culture, lifestyle and people. Therefore, we can understand Asian and be connecting with each other.
Our group project is “The Wealthiest People in 10 Countries of Asia/South Asia”.I did some research on Korea and Indonesia.Now I Know who is the richest person in these countries.i’m interested in how they become rich. In fact, I think it is important to share how they gained their status so that we can follow their path.
The “untold” Asian Pacific American story I told was basically the deeper meaning of rice. Rice isn’t always something you can just eat but may be used in various ways. In our findings, we concluded that rice can be associated with traditions, symbols, are other kind of ethnic foods. It is important to tell this story because not that much people are informed about rice and they aren’t familiar with other things that are associated with rice as well. It’s also important because it illustrates popularity in Asian cultures and it demonstrates that rice is diverse since it’s the key ingredient in lots of Asian foods and dishes.
The “untold” Asian Pacific American story I told was basically the deeper meaning of rice. Rice isn’t always something you can just eat but may be used in various ways. In our findings, we concluded that rice can be associated with traditions, symbols, are other kind of ethnic foods. It is important to tell this story because not that much people are informed about rice and they aren’t familiar with other things that are associated with rice as well. It’s also important because it illustrates popularity in Asian cultures and it demonstrates that rice is diverse since it’s the key ingredient in lots of Asian foods and dishes. AM
In our project, we told the untold story about marriage life in 10 Asian countries. As first we thought that they’d be very boring and easy because we thought that all Asian countries have same cultures. However, the more we researched about their cultures, the more we discovered that there were so many interesting details about each country’s wedding and culture. Moreover, we had spent many time working on this project because we there were so many interesting things about those countries. Therefore, we tried hard to choose the most interesting facts about those countries to show in the presentation. I think with those information, i think we would know more about the Asian countries and their cultures, in wedding especially. T.P.
My group was talking about the untold story and impact from the video game to our culture. We found that most of the Asian game creator put a lots of Western element into their game. In addition, the American market is able to see and feel the culture of the eastern from the gaming world. People are able to feel the feeling to live with the building and culture that is diffident from where they live in the real world from the internet.
My group was talking about the untold story and impact from the video game to our culture. We found that most of the Asian game creator put a lots of Western element into their game. In addition, the American market is able to see and feel the culture of the eastern from the gaming world. People are able to feel the feeling to live with the building and culture that is diffident from where they live in the real world from the internet. JR
I had a great time working on this project. The research was intruiging and i got along well with my group. Not only did i learn alot working with my group, I learned alot from my other classmate’s projects as well.
My presentation was on wealthiest people in 10 Asian/southeast Asian countries, I found out that most of wealthiest people in Southeast Asian countries are mainly immigrants originated from china. Most Chinese were able to succeed. I think it is important to think about why all these countries have rich people that are Chinese instead of people from their own country. For most of the current wealthiest people, they were from a rich family and took over their father business, that raise the question of rich becomes richer, and the poor stays poor.
our group project focused on Asian and Asian American Artists finding success. We explained the singnificance 10 current Asian American artists on YouTube. We researched how it has benefit Asian and Asian Americas in gaining recognition and overrall fame through their talents.I think it is important to tell this story because these people were successful in their field. We can take encouragment from them.
My group did the project on the different wedding attires of countries in Asia. We compared the traditional wedding attires of the Philippines, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Korea, Japan and Hawaii. It was interesting to find that as different as these cultures seem to be, their traditional choice of colors to wear and shy away from are super similar. Red means lucky, gold means wealth, also blue means serenity and and purity. Most of the cultures actually shy away from the color white and black because those are normally the color of mourning. It’s just important to see that as different as people seem to think these cultures are, there are many similarities we have yet to discover. SV
Our group discussed about Asian Traditional Wedding Dresses of Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Korea, China, Vietnam, Japan, Hawaii, Indonesia, and India. It’s so amazing. We discovered something inherently mysterious and romantic about Asia. For example, In Japan, purple is the color of love and a young bride may choose to wear an elaborately-embroidered silk kimono covered in purple iris-flowers. Or the traditional wedding gown in China is bright red, symbolizing luck for the new couple. Chinese bridal gowns are traditionally adorned with elaborate golden phoenixes, chrysanthemums and peonies, symbols of wealth and good fortune. The rich diversity of Asian cultures, traditions and religions makes for a wide variety of colorful and fascinating wedding dresses. Many Asian cultures, many traditions, but all are centered around the basic concept of a new beginning, a new journey down the path of life together, hand in hand, filled with love and a new commitment of two hearts joined forever as one.
My group project is showing about traditional wedding dresses of 10 Asian countries. It’s very interesting because we can see some similarities in color, material, symbol, shape…of wedding dresses between Asian countries. These dresses are fabulous, beautiful and colorful. We also see special points in culture of each country. I think although wedding dresses today become more modern, more fashion but it’s very important to keep traditional wedding dress
In our project, we told the unfold story about ten unknown Chinese actor and actress in some famous Chinese movies. We thought that they would be very interesting because lot of people probably know lot of celebrities by heart. However, there are not the only actor or actress in the movie, nevertheless they are only a very small percentage of all the people that involve in those films. Moreover, I realized that those unknown actors and actresses have played a lot of good Chinese movies and TV shows in China. Although they have played so many well know movies, but those movies don’t let them become famous. I.L.
The 10 “untold” story my group talked about was vegetation. The two vegetation I chose to share with my APA class are cashew apple and wolfberry. Everybody knew what cashew nuts are, but never realize an apple grow on its top. This apple’s skin is very fragile, therefore it can’t be export from Asia. This fruit is rich in nutrients and contains five times more vitamin c than an orange. Most Asian treasure wolfberry because it is useful. Asian doctors use it for herb, chef uses it for soup, household use it for daily diet. Both of these vegetation are beneficial to our health therefore they are important for us to recognize them, take advantage of them, and use them. ML
My group presented the successful Japanese media in American culture. What forms Japanese entertainment have become popular in America? America is a country full of people from many different places and has adopted other cultures forms of media. We showed how one of those cultures, Japan has grown popular in American Culture through film, manga and anime.
My group was talking Asian American in Olympic Game or other Sport competition have gotten achievements. Someone before lived in Asian country had got gold medal in Olympic Game and changed citizenship to become American to join Olympic Game again. Someone was born in the US, but their Personal trainer came from their primitive country. Asian great dedicate to the US in sport.
my group was talking about 10 untold fruits, which are Mangosteen, Rambutan, Rurian, Water Caltrop, Mammee Apple, Bael, Pitaya, Litchi, Cashew apple, Wolfberry. The reason why we did this, is because these are the fruits that we commonly eat. But not many people know the taste and nutrition that fruits carry. Also they are known for creating medicine.
The presentation my team and I put together is about some unknown and/or unpopular fruits and vegetation from Asia. We pointed out some very interesting facts about these exotic fruits such as their history and their uses. Due to some of their unique characteristics, they are offend misunderstood by the general public. And like many other imported products, they are sometimes, limited or banded from the Country. It is to my belief that these fruits and vegetation should be acknowledge for their nutritional values so that we can all enjoy their benefits. H.Z.
The untold story my group and I chose to share was about largely beneficial Asian vegetation that was less popular. I chose three fruits to share with my fellow classmates; Pitaya, Mammee Apple, and Bael. Pitaya is another name for the dragon fruit and it is grown from cactus. Mammee Apple and Bael are fruits known to be confused for apricots or berries. They have similar values in nutrients such as Vitamin C, Calcium, Potassium, and many more.
Our group told the untold story of fruits that come from Asia. In American supermarkets many of the fruits talked about can not be found, so many people are unfamiliar with it. For my part in the project, I picked Mangosteen and Rambutan fruits. I gave a brief history behind each one and added nutritional value and medical uses. I believe it is important to tell APA untold story because it exposes uncommon people, places, and things. A person can come out of their comfort level and try and experience new things. Some of the fruits that was in our presentation was new information to me and I found it very interesting, which I hope other people found too.
In our project, we introduced 10 untold stories about the fashion in Tang Dynasty of China.Because Tang Dynasty is an important period which many countries got deep influence by Tang Dynasty ,it is important to introduce this important dynasty to Asian and Asian-American. Also, the deepest influence that other countries got is customs and the fashion in Tang Dynasty is very special. Thus, we want to introduce those untold stories to people to let more people knowing about those special fashion. Moreover,we want to make people to know this flourishing period in Chinese history. W.A.
My group project is about Asian, especially Japan, has grown popular in American Culture. Since animate film which originated in Japan and has become increasingly popular in America, I decide to choose animate film and introduce Hayao Miyazaki, one of Japan’s greatest directors as my part of the project. While doing the presentation and watching other groups explain their project, I’ve learned a lot from them. I know more about history of Asian, some traditional dresses from many countries, famous people that make me proud of … etc. I think it is important to tell untold story since being an Asian in America make people confuse about their identities. Being an Asian in America is difficult sometimes. Thus, knowing about the stories that we’ve never known that help people understand about other experiences, how they become successful or even failures will inspire people who are trying to adapt to the mainstream of society.
H.N
My groups presentation was focused on the Asian American(s)on Youtube.We focus mainly on 10, and the reason why we picked those 10 youtubers is because they have very different personalities and all unique in their own way. We mainly talked about their past work and the reasons why they got famous/ how. I think this project was very interesting because I feel like a lot of Asian Americans watch them online and they get courage from them to live out their dreams, even if there different from the ÿoutubers personal dreams.
Our topic was about the fashion in Tang Dynasty of China, I talked the “untold” story about the influence of Tang suit to other Asian countries, like Japan and Korea. Tang dynasty represents the most prosperous period of ancient China. China’s cultural exchanges with other countries through the Tang Dynasty, spread around the world. Until today, Japan, Korea, and their traditional costumes, still retained the face of China’s Tang Dynasty costumes. It’s important to tell it because I want to let more people know about how special and noble the Tang suit is. And people will explore more about it, thus comprehend the Tang dynasty in ancient China.
The story that our group wanted to tell everybody was how the Japanese Media influenced in American Culture, and how this kind of stuff so popular in the United Stated. We had three part in our presentation. First, was the movie from American director but talked about the things in Japan. Second, was manga from Japan, this is kind of popular, but i thought people might didn’t know this also very famous in American. Last, was the anime that influenced all the japanese. I think Japan is strong on the media, its necessary that gets everybody knows it. Because lots of superhero from American is copy from Japan. And also, students might have a interested to look at this kind of Media.
The story that our group wanted to tell everybody was how the Japanese Media influenced in American Culture, and how this kind of stuff so popular in the United Stated. We had three part in our presentation. First, was the movie from American director but talked about the things in Japan. Second, was manga from Japan, this is kind of popular, but i thought people might didn’t know this also very famous in American. Last, was the anime that influenced all the japanese. I think Japan is strong on the media, its necessary that gets everybody knows it. Because lots of superhero from American is copy from Japan. And also, students might have a interested to look at this kind of Media.
Our groups project were introduce 10 unknown actress and actor. Those actress and actor are acting so good, but they are still not famous right now. I hope they will become famous in the future.
My group presented our project solely to recognize talented Asian Americans who have found their voice through YouTube. Since there aren’t a handful of Asians in Hollywood, we decided that our “untold” story would be based on Asian Americans finding success on YouTube. We chose to recognize artists, comedians, and filmmakers such as Timothy DelaGhetto, Michelle Phan, Freddie Wong, and Kevin Wu, that’s only to name a few. Since YouTube has been such a huge outlet for talented Asian Americans, I find it important to share this with people who aren’t too familiar with pop culture. MC
Japan has major influence on American entertainment. Through our group project, we want to show how the American three forms of entertainment, film, manga, and anime, are affected by Japan a lot. Also, we want to show that Japanese products of these three media are very popular and common in America. The main reason that we showing the effect on American entertainment by Japan is that as a country in Asia, Japan has a great contribution to America, so the development of the prosperous American cannot without the culture of Asian countries. Therefore, in order to be a strongest and most powerful country, America must develop friendly relationship with the Asian countries.
Our group project is showing about 10 untold stories of fashion in Tung dynasty. I think that it is important to tell Tang dynasty to APA because it influence the fashions of nowadays. Such as the clothes and jewelry, some of them still based on the Tang Dynasty style for their design concepts. Moreover, we also want APA to know more about Chinese culture according to introduce the Tang Dynasty, because it was largely a period of progress and stability in China.
Our group presentation title was Chinese Costume and Fashion is Tang Dynasty. I did some research for the fashion in Tang Dynasty. Also Tang Dynasty is in the world recognized as one of China’s most powerful era. Tang Dynasty’s things influence for long time and some place. In this presentation our group compare about Korean and Japanese clothes style. However, we want to introduce some untold fashion clothes style to people, let more and people know about the fashion in Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty was a strong and prosperous times. Tang Dynasty in culture, politics, economy, diplomacy and other aspects have brilliant achievement.
Is there a follow-up to this event? I’m interested in seeing the work and displays that these students put into this event.