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Love Asian American-Style: Valentine's Edition Special

Annual Focus on Love, Sex, Relationships, Beauty, and all that (Asian) Jazz

By Asian American Village

 


 

Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawaii
Detail from Remembering Diamond Head, Remembering Hawaii, a cookbook memoir by Shirley Tong Parola and Lisa Parola Gaynier. Featured in "Way Beyond Chocolate" by Frances Wang.

Main Features

Weak in the Knees: Revisiting the "Nice Chinese Boy"
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Taking an appreciative second look at Beautiful Asian Men (and a third, and fourth...)

The Asian Branding of Sexuality
By Jillian Glaeser, AAV Contributor
Sex sells, and Asian-themed sex sells a lot. Is it Orientalism or cultural openness?
(Warning: This article discusses products and themes of an adult nature. Viewer discretion advised.)

Marshmallows, Elephant Weddings, and Hotel-Room Sex
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
Valentine's Day in Asia is a blend of Western marketing of love and love of western marketing

Macho, with Syrup: Valentine's Day in the Philippines
By Steven Knipp, Pacific News Service
A heady mix of Catholicism and Hollywood schlock, Valentine's Day evokes questions about colonial roots and the future

Way Beyond Chocolate: Valentine's Sweets Asian/Pacific-Style
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang,AAV Contributing Editor
Sweets for the sweet: Indonesian, Thai, Hawaiian, Vietnamese, more

Finding a Boyfriend for My Vietnamese Mom -- Online
By Thuy Ngo, New America Media
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a woman decides her daughter will help her peruse the online personals

 

 

By the Numbers

In 1999, 34% of A/PIs 15 years old and over had never married, compared with 24% of non-Hispanic Whites.

Of the remainder, 53% were married and living with spouse, 5% divorced, 4% widowed, and 3% married with no spouse present

Which ethnic Asians are most likely to marry...

Other Ethnic Asians: Japanese
Own Ethnic group: Vietnamese
Black men: Indian
Black women: Japanese
Hispanic men: Filipino
Hispanic women: Filipino
White men: Korean & Japanese
White women: Filipino & Japanese

[See By the Numbers: Dating, Marriage, and Race in Asian America by CN Le]

Dating, Mating, and Other Perils

By the Numbers: Dating, Marriage, and Race in Asian America
By C.N. Le, Asian Nation
So, who's dating who?  Studies consistently show that Asian Americans have the highest "outmarriage" rates. But as always, there's more to the story than just the headline.

So Your Family Wants to Set You Up?
By Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, AAV Contributing Editor
With arranged marriages not so far in our past, many Asian families love to play matchmaker, much to the chagrin of the younger generation. Should you do it? How do you survive it? How do you get out of it?

LGBT APA Family Portraits
By Lynda Lin, Pacific Citizen
In the heated debate over gay rights, LGBT APAs caught in a ‘social twilight’ are defining their own meaning of love and family

Valentine's Day-themed Trivia
By the U.S. Census Bureau
How many single Asian men are out there for every Asian woman, vice-versa, and other fun factoids

Census: Characteristics of APA Couples and Families
By the U.S. Census Bureau
More factoids on topics such as marital status, racial statistics of couples, size and family characteristics, and more

Love Vibe-R-Asian
By Yayoi Lena Winfrey, AAV Contributing Editor
The perils of finding a date or netting a mate online

Secret Sexy! Asian Man


Detail from Tak Toyoshima's "Origins of Secret Asian Man" 2002 cartoon series @ Asian-American Village

Pervs, Politicos and Prey: Ethnic Media and the Problem of "Hack Marketing"
By SD Ikeda, Editor
How online ethnic media are targeted by identity stealers and traffic poachers, and what can be done about it (sort of)

Meet Virtual Girlfriend … A New Era in Dating?
By Caroline Aoyagi, Pacific Citizen
Q&A with the chairman and CEO of Hong Kong's Artificial Life, Inc.

Living Single (and Eurasian)
By Carmen Van Kerckhove, EurasianNation
Survey looks at dating experiences, and preferences, among single Eurasians

Secret Asian Man: Never Gets the Girl
By Tak Toyoshima, AAV Artist-in-Residence
(Cartoon) The thanks that Asian heroes get in Hollywood leave much to be, err, desired...

 


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