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Yes, Cashmere Mafia is pretty trashy, but i'm hopelessly (or hopefully) devoted because:

1) Lucy Liu's character's parents on the show are older Asian Americans with no accents! Asian American actors not forced to fake accents they don't have! This is huge!

2) Lucy Liu's character is not stereotyped in that it is not that different from the other female characters on the show.

AND IT GETS BETTER!

3) One of Ms. Liu's love interests is AN ASIAN AMERICAN MALE (jaw drop) (he also has no accent).

!!! AND MOST OF ALL !!!

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Subject: Letter to the Editor of Tufts Magazine ("Happily Ever After" Spring 2007)

Dear Editor:

The cover of the Spring 2007 Tufts Magazine sparked our interest because it follows the increasingly popular trend in the media of depicting bi-racial couples, and notably, heterosexual couples where the man is Caucasian and the woman is Asian. We wish to point out a blind spot in the article "Happily Ever After" that we hope can be addressed in a future cover story.

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June 23, 2007 A six-person jury delivered its verdict yesterday evening in the case of the "Quincy 4," four Asian Americans charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest in an incident involving the Quincy police. One defendant, Howard Ng, was found innocent of disorderly conduct, while defendants Karen Chen, Quan Thin, and Tat Yuen were found guilty on either or both charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The four were adamant that they were falsely charged after being victims of police brutality in the early hours of April 30, 2006 in front of the Super 88 market on Hancock Street. Read more

I normally cringe at most forms of acapella. But even my cold heart melted for these 3 minutes. :)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3648067115621157282&pr=goog-sl

I've never seen J so happy! Congratulations Lu-Liu!

 

 

 

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