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My first movie was with Clark Gable, but back in those days, the leading role was played by these guys with their eyes taped up, and they talked like this, the producer said the Asians were not good enough and they (were) not box office, but look at us now. – James Hong	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I still haven't heard any explanation for the disparity between the personal scores that are given to Asians. – Samuel Alito	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a common thread for the history of Asians in America whether it’s an economic crisis or somebody to blame for the World Trade Center being destroyed: It’s Asians, yellow and brown people that have historically been scapegoated and blamed for these things, it goes to a threat that is more than a couple of hundred years old — blaming a group that is seen as the forever-enemy alien. – Helen Zia	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded. – Stanley Goldfarb	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I thought that Amy's comments, in places, were outrageous, i said as much during the interview what Amy Wax said about the Asians could have been said, and was said, about the Jews not so long ago. Today we call that antisemitism. – Glenn Loury	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When 'Crazy Rich Asians' came out three years ago, we celebrated that as the first studio movie with a predominantly Asian cast in almost 25 years, i'm looking forward to the moment where we no longer celebrate firsts. We're celebrating seconds, and thirds, and fourths and fifths. So I'll take this moment for what it is. It is absolutely that watershed moment. ... But I hope that there are many more just like it afterwards. – Simu Liu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The congressman's rhetoric is reinforcing the hatred of Asians and Chinese. – Dennis Hu	Found on CNN 2 years ago
He said – 'You Asians, get out of my face. I don’t want the coronavirus from you guys,' i was a little bit frustrated, but at the same time – it’s not the first this has happened to me. – Henry Kim	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I was maced. I was maced and attacked, him and a couple of other Asians maced me — robbed me. – Jarrod Powell	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
[ But ] I'm convinced that change is going to happen, because when I look at Gen Z and millennial workers, they are looking for something very different, what [ also ] gives me hope and encouragement is seeing Asians and Asian Americans speak up for other communities. – Project Include	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Nobody's going to leave Afghanistan alone, so you can expect the Pakistanis and the Russians, the Chinese, the central Asians and the Iranians to continue to play there, this is not the end of the Afghan wars. This is the end of the overt American phase of the Afghan war. – Stephen Biddle	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The biggest difference right now is people are filming it -- and the media choosing to report it, asians have always faced violence. It's not worse than before. – Asian Americans	Found on CNN 3 years ago
That really didn't help at all, it didn't help the Asians, didn't help the Black community, the Latino community. The racism was just flamed. – Patrick Soon-Shiong	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It now takes me to what I have witnessed and learned over the last year with African Americans, and it's a pretty similar thing with Asians, it hits even closer to me because I am Asian American and I think had I not gone through what I did last year and not seen things firsthand, maybe it wouldn't have meant as much to me now. It definitely does and I hope there is change that will come. – Larson Foundationand	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on. – Daniel Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We promote Asian storytelling. Not just Asian stories, but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience, when you say,' Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians, it's more black and white, that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics. – Ronny Chieng	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We want this neighborhood just for white people. Out Hispanics. Out Blacks. Out Asians. they centered it, they printed labels, they purchased stamps. It was done so meticulously it shows the person did it with complete consciousness of what they were doing. – Paula Cadavid	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think it's definitely been overlooked. I think it's because Asians are the invisible minority. People don't think about problems affecting Asians and that Asians are being disadvantaged. ... Part of the reason is that Asians are seen as the model minority, people think that Asians have made it. They have good jobs, good incomes. ... And the reality is very different. – Marlene Kim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It's the worst I've seen in decades, asians typically have among the lowest unemployment rates, and it really shot up during Covid. – Marlene Kim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Unfortunately, if people continue to believe these myths that Asians are more likely to have the virus, that they're bringing the virus, certainly Asians will have a more difficult time, especially Asian businesses in Asian areas like Chinatowns I think will continue to suffer, and we've seen a number of businesses already close in Asian areas of the country. – Marlene Kim	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This incident made me feel deeply the issues of the social standing of Asians, and the marginalization we experience. – Tadataka Unno	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Caste has been here( in the US) for a long time, wherever South Asians go, they bring caste. – Thenmozhi Soundararajan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I said,' This is not a good image of the Chinese... You've got to improve the image of the Asians here. – James Hong	Found on CNN 3 years ago
East West Players were formulated to showcase works by Asians, who wrote the play, who designed the stage, who act in the play, it was all done by Asian people, professional people. – James Hong	Found on CNN 3 years ago

My first movie was with Clark Gable, but back in those days, the leading role was played by these guys with their eyes taped up, and they talked like this, the producer said the Asians were not good enough and they (were) not box office, but look at us now.

– James Hong

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I still haven't heard any explanation for the disparity between the personal scores that are given to Asians.

– Samuel Alito

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is a common thread for the history of Asians in America whether it’s an economic crisis or somebody to blame for the World Trade Center being destroyed: It’s Asians, yellow and brown people that have historically been scapegoated and blamed for these things, it goes to a threat that is more than a couple of hundred years old — blaming a group that is seen as the forever-enemy alien.

– Helen Zia

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If you go back into the 1920s and thirties, it was Jews that were excluded as a definite category. And there was an interesting study done several years ago where someone wrote to the medical schools of the various medical schools around the country, and they acknowledged the fact that they had limited the number of Jewish applicants that they would accept. So … we totally reject this, we think that admission to medical schools should be based on merit and merit alone. And that and there are plenty of African-American students who are highly qualified and are worthy of admission to medical school, and they should be admitted to medical school if they so desire to enter medical school – but on the basis of the fact that they've achieved what they've achieved, not because of some desire to create some sort of quota system in medicine where every medical school class perfectly reflects the population in the United States. And even if one tries to do that … it ends up excluding many people – typically South Asians and East Asian individuals are the ones who end up getting excluded.

– Stanley Goldfarb

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I thought that Amy's comments, in places, were outrageous, i said as much during the interview what Amy Wax said about the Asians could have been said, and was said, about the Jews not so long ago. Today we call that antisemitism.

– Glenn Loury

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When 'Crazy Rich Asians' came out three years ago, we celebrated that as the first studio movie with a predominantly Asian cast in almost 25 years, i'm looking forward to the moment where we no longer celebrate firsts. We're celebrating seconds, and thirds, and fourths and fifths. So I'll take this moment for what it is. It is absolutely that watershed moment. ... But I hope that there are many more just like it afterwards.

– Simu Liu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The congressman's rhetoric is reinforcing the hatred of Asians and Chinese.

– Dennis Hu

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He said – 'You Asians, get out of my face. I don’t want the coronavirus from you guys,' i was a little bit frustrated, but at the same time – it’s not the first this has happened to me.

– Henry Kim

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was maced. I was maced and attacked, him and a couple of other Asians maced me — robbed me.

– Jarrod Powell

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

[ But ] I'm convinced that change is going to happen, because when I look at Gen Z and millennial workers, they are looking for something very different, what [ also ] gives me hope and encouragement is seeing Asians and Asian Americans speak up for other communities.

– Project Include

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Nobody's going to leave Afghanistan alone, so you can expect the Pakistanis and the Russians, the Chinese, the central Asians and the Iranians to continue to play there, this is not the end of the Afghan wars. This is the end of the overt American phase of the Afghan war.

– Stephen Biddle

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The biggest difference right now is people are filming it -- and the media choosing to report it, asians have always faced violence. It's not worse than before.

– Asian Americans

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That really didn't help at all, it didn't help the Asians, didn't help the Black community, the Latino community. The racism was just flamed.

– Patrick Soon-Shiong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It now takes me to what I have witnessed and learned over the last year with African Americans, and it's a pretty similar thing with Asians, it hits even closer to me because I am Asian American and I think had I not gone through what I did last year and not seen things firsthand, maybe it wouldn't have meant as much to me now. It definitely does and I hope there is change that will come.

– Larson Foundationand

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on.

– Daniel Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We promote Asian storytelling. Not just Asian stories, but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience, when you say,' Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians, it's more black and white, that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics.

– Ronny Chieng

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We want this neighborhood just for white people. Out Hispanics. Out Blacks. Out Asians. they centered it, they printed labels, they purchased stamps. It was done so meticulously it shows the person did it with complete consciousness of what they were doing.

– Paula Cadavid

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think it's definitely been overlooked. I think it's because Asians are the invisible minority. People don't think about problems affecting Asians and that Asians are being disadvantaged. ... Part of the reason is that Asians are seen as the model minority, people think that Asians have made it. They have good jobs, good incomes. ... And the reality is very different.

– Marlene Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's the worst I've seen in decades, asians typically have among the lowest unemployment rates, and it really shot up during Covid.

– Marlene Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Unfortunately, if people continue to believe these myths that Asians are more likely to have the virus, that they're bringing the virus, certainly Asians will have a more difficult time, especially Asian businesses in Asian areas like Chinatowns I think will continue to suffer, and we've seen a number of businesses already close in Asian areas of the country.

– Marlene Kim

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This incident made me feel deeply the issues of the social standing of Asians, and the marginalization we experience.

– Tadataka Unno

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Caste has been here( in the US) for a long time, wherever South Asians go, they bring caste.

– Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I said,' This is not a good image of the Chinese... You've got to improve the image of the Asians here.

– James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

East West Players were formulated to showcase works by Asians, who wrote the play, who designed the stage, who act in the play, it was all done by Asian people, professional people.

– James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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