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Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being & cross cultural dynamics

Below are the best resources we could find on Asian American and Pacific Islander Well-Being and cross cultural dynamics.

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What Pacific Islanders Want You to Know

“I had to teach myself about myself.”

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Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.

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Asian Americans Are Viewed as More American If They Are Gay

New research finds that an Asian American who presents as gay signals that he or she is fully invested in American culture.

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Are You “AAPI” or “Asian American”? It’s Complicated. | A People’s History of Asian America

How many A’s in AAPI? Dolly & Adrian hear from South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander voices to explore the pros and cons of disaggregating Asian American as a statistical category.

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Making Sense of Micronesia: The Logic of Pacific Island Culture

Why are islanders so lavishly generous with food and material possessions but so guarded with information? Why do these people, unfailingly polite for the most part, laugh openly when others embarrass themselves? What does a smile mean to an islander? What might a sudden lapse into silence signify?...

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8 Tips for Talking About Mental Health with Your Asian Family

“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.

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Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans.

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Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Philippines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity

Half Filipino but raised in an American household, Deborah Francisco Douglas had always longed to know more about her Filipino heritage.

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I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype | Canwen Xu | TEDxBoise

Bad driver. Math wizard. Model minority. In this hilarious and insightful talk, eighteen-year-old Canwen Xu shares her Asian-American story of breaking stereotypes, reaffirming stereotypes, and driving competently on her way to buy rice.

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Keeping Love Close

What does love look like in a time of hate? Asian and Asian-American photographers and essayists respond.

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