Ophelia Chong
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A true multi-tasker: illustrator, designer, teacher, networker and writer of short blasts of pent up hot air.
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How will Americans see us now? Will we be a threat of a different nature? Say economic prejudice?
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I see my present through my online past. Blurry images and partial thoughts haunt me in the HTML graveyard.
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If you can't play with a sense of humor, why bother?
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My early years with my mother taught me how to think outside the box. I learned how to use one tool a dozen ways.
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One of my most vivid memories was at the age of 7 when I had a loose tooth. Using TV as a guide, my mother wanted to yank it out.
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The controversy about Manny Pacquiao's and gay marraige this week is yet another reminder to be more vigilant about what we repost and tweet.
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Losing someone close to you is when you shut down the senses; you cannot hear, touch, feel, see, or taste.
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During one of our breaks we were walking through the town square when he turned to me and said, "They all must be saying, 'what is he doing walking with that Chinese lady?'"
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For the past year I have written about Asian Americans, and with each piece I tried to speak about what it is to be Asian American in Los Angeles. I now see that there are no defining walls that separate me from them, us from you.
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Omar, we don't get many Asians playing professional sports, just wait till there's an Asian playing hockey. Thanks for visiting and commenting....
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WhiteDude. Nothing like copy and paste the same rant, eh? Just because you can go across and post it willy nilly doesn't mean anyone will say "hey, he's got a point". Your repetition is just..."white noise"....
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Asians are not an invisible group that exists outside the mainstream: They are marrying outside their ethnic groups, living outside their communities, and have been weaving their stories into the cultural heritage of this country.
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Love is a roll of the dice, whether you have all the control or none.
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As a person who is very proud of her Chinese heritage, I am distressed at how the same people who invented the compass could loose their bearings over greed.
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My fridge is my diary. It records where I have been and hopefully where I will travel one day.
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I came into the Catholic church, not because I had an epiphany, but because my best friend Cathy from high school insisted that I get baptized so that I could be in heaven with her.
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Raymundo Beltran with Matthew King at the Wild Card The Chinese Guy Jeremy Lin. Lin-sanity. What are we to make of the Cinderella of the NBA? The guy no one noticed until he was pulled off the bench when...
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We are just not a public-display-of-affection kind of people. I can't think of one photo of Mao Zedong hugging a factory worker or slapping the back of a farmer, but if you Google "President Clinton hugging," you will come up with 836,000 results - and that's just "hugging."
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As a first generation Chinese American, he's a real fighter. He's been through homelessness, crime and self-mutilation, later becoming an artist and filmmaker assimilated in his culture.
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"There are about six different ways to say respect in Samoan. This in itself is unique for any culture and reiterates the importance of the act and the word to my people."
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Living in a melting pot, we move about our space reflecting and mirroring one another, so as natural as it is to close our eyes when we sneeze, we habitually profile one another based on a so-called "cultural" assumption.
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President Obama was born in the Year of the Metal Ox, while Mitt Romney is a Fire Pig.
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With a bag of tools and a license, a new immigrant can start earning money quickly by using their community to find a job.
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Filipinos have the highest rate of assimilation into the United States, specifically into Los Angeles.
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If I was to really give it meaning, it would not be about the gifts or the holiday spirit, it would be about being with my family and just celebrating being lucky enough to spend that day with them.
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Josh Schaedel's father lives in a hotel that charges by the week. He is an artist, carpenter, painter and journeyman. He also suffers depression and has an ongoing struggle with alcoholism.
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Stella was fascinated by a young man selling fruit across the street from her apartment, and it inspired her to create a series of portraits of the men and women selling fruit throughout Los Angeles.
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Social media is a limitless, bottomless world. With each keystroke we swim further away from the land that grounded us.
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This past October, my Art Center student Christopher Ruiz went down to CareNow USA to document the large free clinic, providing medical, dental, and vision care.
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Dessert to the Chinese is a completely different matter.
Recent Actions from Ophelia Chong
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Omar, we don't get many Asians playing professional sports, just wait till there's an Asian playing hockey. Thanks for visiting and commenting....
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WhiteDude. Nothing like copy and paste the same rant, eh? Just because you can go across and post it willy nilly doesn't mean anyone will say "hey, he's got a point". Your repetition is just..."white noise"....
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hi SinoSoul, thanks so much for the clarification. At the dinner table at home, I just ate it without discussion because it was my favorite dish from my Mother. And as for my non-speaking friends, they just say "that dish...
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thanks so much Tracy! all these small events combine to make us who we are. thanks for visiting and commenting!...
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thanks so much jason for visiting! Our names have so much history, not only from our parents but from their's. Our uniqueness is made from a community effort. :O)...
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thanks so much Nadya. :O)...
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Yes, its ironic. (Irony in the wrong hands can be dangerous. )...
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thank you so much danh!!!!! you have been so supportive of my writing and of KCET. Just want to say a big huge thank you. :O)...
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hello berman the dung one didn't test well, it kept exploding. Thanks for commenting and visiting! :O) ophelia...
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hello jason I should fire up the forge and start making those little coal shovels. thanks for visiting and commenting! ophelia...
Responses to Comments from Ophelia Chong
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How will Americans see us now? Will we be a threat of a different nature? Say economic prejudice?
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I see my present through my online past. Blurry images and partial thoughts haunt me in the HTML graveyard.
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If you can't play with a sense of humor, why bother?
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My early years with my mother taught me how to think outside the box. I learned how to use one tool a dozen ways.
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One of my most vivid memories was at the age of 7 when I had a loose tooth. Using TV as a guide, my mother wanted to yank it out.
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The controversy about Manny Pacquiao's and gay marraige this week is yet another reminder to be more vigilant about what we repost and tweet.
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Losing someone close to you is when you shut down the senses; you cannot hear, touch, feel, see, or taste.
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During one of our breaks we were walking through the town square when he turned to me and said, "They all must be saying, 'what is he doing walking with that Chinese lady?'"
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For the past year I have written about Asian Americans, and with each piece I tried to speak about what it is to be Asian American in Los Angeles. I now see that there are no defining walls that separate me from them, us from you.
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Asians are not an invisible group that exists outside the mainstream: They are marrying outside their ethnic groups, living outside their communities, and have been weaving their stories into the cultural heritage of this country.
