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Awkwafina: The Unlikely Cook - The eight-episode series follows Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, on a cross-country culinary road trip as she attempts to revive her family’s beloved Chinese restaurant.

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u/justflipping — 4 days ago
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Anyone else grow up being the only Asian student/person in their schools/community? What was your experience like?

I grew up as the only Asian student at school and in my community up until I moved to a large city for college. While I had wonderful friends growing up… culturally? It was still an isolating experience. Just wondering what other people with similar experiences went through.

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u/Additional_Goat_8889 — 4 days ago
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The wrong side of history

This is a picture of Asian American ICE agents in personally accessorized tactical gear at a protest gone violent in San Francisco today.

As a local Asian American, it pains me to see my brothers being on the wrong side of history.

u/Dry_Cricket_5423 — 13 days ago
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Advisory about a certain evil administrator at Cornell

Even before Jane Doe's lawsuit against the Cornell Seven erupted into public view last month, this evil woman in charge of student discipline at Cornell was already living proof that people weasel their way into power at university administrations to lord over the next generation of students trying to learn at universities.

I am guessing many of us who attended college/university, and not even in scenarios involving surviving assault, have been frustrated by arbitrary and opaque bureaucratic procedures in spite of university tuition going up year after year for no benefit to students. It is no surprise to me that in 2024 when demonstrators called for Cornell to divest from corporate alignments which supply weapons to the IDF's assault on Gaza, Christina Liang took the opportunity to obfuscate the disciplinary process as much as possible, topped off with a smug unemotional expression when finally meeting a given student face-to-face. Liang bears responsibility for suspending two of these graduate students, which allowed ICE to harass them into self-deporting, likely destroying their academic careers. But of course administrators like Liang at countless institutions treat fraternity criminals with velvet gloves!

The sad truth is, I have met rich and possibly sociopathic Asian acquaintances whom I suspect share Christina Liang's worldview that it's perfectly normal to brag on LinkedIn that you don't have to give a damn at your very well-paid job because everyone else is beneath you.

u/NextSteak6376 — 12 days ago
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Adult citizenship claim (INA 309) – born out of wedlock in Philippines, USC father deceased, first passport at Embassy Manila. Anyone with a similar case?

Hi everyone,

I’m preparing a first-time adult U.S. passport / citizenship claim at the U.S. Embassy in Manila and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has been through something similar.

Quick facts about my case:
• Born in the Philippines in 1993, out of wedlock
• Father was a U.S. citizen (U.S. Navy, stationed at Subic Bay)
• Father died in 2006 when I was 14
• Parents never married; no court order of paternity; father did not sign PSA birth certificate because he got deported and incarcerated before I was born but I am using his surname since then.
• I have contemporaneous evidence from before I was born / around that time: a signed (but unfiled) I-129F fiancé petition, personal letters from him that refer to the pregnancy/“our baby,” a photo of my parents together, and military records, and marriage counselling papers and bride certificate of mom
• U.S. relatives (grandmother and aunt) are providing notarized affidavits and are willing to do DNA if the Embassy asks
• I already have a high AncestryDNA match with a paternal relative

I understand the hardest part is the lack of formal legitimation or a sworn acknowledgment of paternity before age 18. I’m putting together a totality-of-the-evidence packet and am prepared for a possible DNA request.

Questions for those who’ve been through this:
Did anyone here get approved at Embassy Manila (or another post) with a deceased U.S. citizen father and no formal legitimation/acknowledgment before 18?
If the Embassy asked for DNA, what relatives did they accept (grandmother, aunt, half-siblings)?
How long did the process take from appointment request to final decision (especially if there was a 90-day letter)?
Any advice on how the officers treated the “clear and convincing” blood relationship standard when the formal 309(a) documents were missing?

I’m not looking for guarantees just real experiences and practical advice from people who had a similar fact pattern. Thank you in advance

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u/Capable-Set4407 — 12 days ago