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In western culture, many social animals like to associate drinking to social skill and ability, more particulary in males who measure theier masculinities with one's alcoholic tolerance ie. holding down their drink.

With this in mind, many Asians have long been on the subjected to stereotypes and made fun of when they preduce a flush reaction to their alcoholic drink.

These stereotypes can easily be debunked, as people become more clued in with a fact that the assumption is not a race matter. To imply asians are weak simply because they turn red is nothing more than ignorance and social racism, many of us do not flush.

Here is the story:

New Shanghai-based research reverses the stereotypical Western notion that Chinese people cannot hold their liquor – at least, when it comes to pounding back grain-based alcohols like baijiu.

WCCO's James Schugel is in the doghouse with the Asian American Journalists Association, which is demanding an apology for his idiotic report last week that local dogs were being sold for human consumption in New York City's Chinatown.

Environment Minister Peter Kent calls neighbourhood “worthy nominee” for world heritage site.

Two of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s top ministers joined other politicians and community members today (October 13) in announcing that Vancouver’s Chinatown will be added to the list of National Historic Sites of Canada.

“There is no better example of the success of Canada’s multiculturalism than Vancouver’s Chinatown,” Citizenship, Immigration, and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney said at the event, which took place today at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden on Carrall Street. “My parents were from the Lower Mainland, and I remember as a little boy coming down to Chinatown and being awestruck by the colour, the exotic architecture, and the tastes of Chinatown. And all of that as a little boy gave me a sense of the ancient Chinese culture and its role here in its home in Canada, here in Vancouver’s Chinatown.”

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The new U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke formally met with the press for the first time Sunday after arriving in Beijing the day before.

Locke was appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama in March after the previous ambassador Jon Huntsman resigned. The U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on July 27.

"The United States and China have a profoundly important and complex diplomatic and economic bilateral relationship – one with challenges, no question, but one which also holds great promises for expanded cooperation and collaboration," Locke, surrounded by his wife and three children, told the press gathered in the courtyard in front of his new Beijing residence.

Locke is the first Chinese American to hold this post. Born into an immigrant family in 1950, Locke did not learn to speak English until the age of 5. In 1997, he became the first governor of a Continental U.S. state of Asian descent. After serving two terms as the governor of Washington, he joined Obama's cabinet as the Commerce Secretary.

Be sure to check this film out! the film Wedding Palace wins Best Feature & Best Cinematography at Cine Gear Expo! Written by Christine Yoon.

Starring Jean Yoon and Stephen Park, Charles Kim plays the "Professor Uncle"

Reviews by Scott Eriksson 

"Christine Yoo has written and directed a film that is masterful in the way it moves from comedy to romance by blending the two seamlessly. That's the good news...the bad news is that by virtue of the fact that it is a film with an Asian cast and a few subtitles thrown in, it will probably not receive the wide release and the sold out American audiences it deserves. Although it is a film about Korean culture and traditions of parents whose son is a Korean-American raised in a very different world than his immigrant parents, the comedy is ultimately about generational differences among family members, something everyone can understand. While every good film starts with a great script, without the right director and cast it can't succeed.

An article recently appeared in the news that struck a few cords with me that didn't quite represent the true Asian American perspective.

The article begins by introducing Asian-American as 18 percent of the Harvard University enrollment, 24 percent at Stanford University, and a whopping 46 percent at the University of California-Berkeley. Academic pedigrees like that typically vault graduates into the upper echelon of the U.S. workforce.

But a national study released Thursday by the Center for Work-Life Policy says that Asian-Americans — 5 percent of the U.S. population and the nation's fastest-growing minority by percentage — hold less than 2 percent of top corporate jobs.

According to "Researchers" supported by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and Time Warner: