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Two Colombian nationals have pleaded guilty for their part in a sophisticated burglary ring which sought out Asian American business owners in multiple cities across Oregon and Washington ...

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Court documents say that Martinez-Grandas and Quiroga-Solano were part of a group which burglarized four homes in early October 2025, staying in short-term rentals as they moved between cities and looked for potential victims, all of them Asian American small business owners.

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In all, seven suspects have been indicted in federal court for their alleged involvement in the burglary ring. U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Scott Bradford said Tuesday that four have since pleaded guilty, one was removed from the U.S. by immigration authorities, and two are still fugitives.

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"When they carried out the burglaries, the defendants employed signal jamming technology, perimeter countersurveillance, and communicated on seven-way group calls. They entered their victims' homes by shattering glass doors," ...

The crew then "ransacked" each home, looking for cash, jewelry, designer handbags, purses, wallets, travel documents and other valuables.

For a burglary in Gresham, federal prosecutors said, Quiroga-Solano first looked up Chinese restaurants in the area. The next night, he allegedly cased a victim's home in Gresham — preparation, investigators believe, for a burglary the next day.

Martinez-Grandas was responsible for arranging the crew's short-term rentals in Auburn, Washington and Eugene, also mapping the address of a target home in Salem. ...

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The U.S. Attorney's Office said the crew had more than a dozen cell phones, and investigators found evidence of money wires to Bogota, Colombia...

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Science magazine, one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the world, has published an investigative report titled “Researching While Chinese,” detailing the Department of Justice (DOJ) persecution of Chinese researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) and Indiana University (IU). The report names the FBI operative at the center of every prosecution and exposes retaliation against IU Professor Roger Innes, a leading American plant biologist.

If they can talk to you IRL without looking for your toes, then you know you've got a friend.

Every Asian American TV show or movie seems to follow the exact same formula: generational trauma, identity crisis, or making the parents into villains. At this point the theme feels repetitive, and honestly kind of toxic.

Just go down the list of every popular Asian media whether it's Beef, Everything everywhere all at once, or Shang Chi. The conflict almost always revolves around trauma tied to being Asian, or parents being controlling, emotionally unavailable, abusive, etc.

And don't get me started with Asian American literature. Every popular book written by an Asian American writers revolves around trauma or the challenges of dating a white guy/girl. I get that these experiences are real for some people, but does this actually reflect the average Asian experience? Everytime I consume this type of media, it feels like reguberated garbage. Worst of all, it makes our whole community look like a bunch of schizo weirdos...

Maybe I have lived a privileged upbringing because I'm an Asian women that grew up dating other Asians. Even though my parents worked from 9am-9pm at their restaurant, they never forgot to love me. I love my parents and although they are not perfect, they raised me in a foreign country where they barely spoke the language. I am eternally grateful for their sacrifice. I can't be the only minority within the Asian community that lived a non-colonized, non-hateful, non-traumatic childhood right? So who is consuming this slop?

How does this even make our community look from the outside? I don't see how it reflects us in any positive light.

Do I just concede to watching K-Dramas for the rest of my life? Compared Asian-Asian media, the quality is honestly 10x. I recently watched Death's Game on Disney Plus and it shits on anything I've watched in the past year.

For context, I’m a young Chinese woman in college.

When I dress up, it’s obvious that men—regardless of ethnicity—act differently. They stare, smile, and are generally friendly. Granted, I’ve never had problems with men being mean to me anyway.

Usually other girls are kind to me too. It’s easy for me to make friendships with other women and they’re receptive towards me… except for white women.

To be clear, I actually don’t directly talk to white girls too often because most of my friends are diverse in race (and I have white friends too, but they’re neurodivergent). But I’ve noticed that if someeone is being rude or acting weird around me, it’s a white girl. They smile less at me than they do at others and apparently, make comments about “not being from diverse areas” in the first minute of meeting me (ask me how I know lol). I also fail to make lasting friendships with them because they just don’t seem committed to spending time with me.

I used to think it wass because they feel threatened in the way that lots of girls feel aroundd attractive peers, but literally no other race of people acts like this so consistently. So what’s up with that? Btw I’m specifically talking about the WASPy type girls; I get along with Jewish white people fine.

I recently went on a mission trip to another country, and I was so excited to tell my mom about it when I got home. I wanted to show her pics, but she started hating on the trip. She would make comments like “why are you volunteering in a different country with random people?” “why don’t you volunteer here in America and take care of people here?”

She’s made comments like this before saying “why don’t you work instead of spending your time volunteering?”

I feel like she’s constantly hating about the things I do. I feel like I always had a rough relationship with my mom. Don’t get me wrong. I love my mom, and she sacrificed so much to for us to be here. But some of the things she does and says is hurtful.

She was barely present in my life because she was always working. Growing up, I always felt like I spent more time with my teachers than my mom and saw them more as mother figures than she ever was. For a mother-daughter brunch event, I didn’t even bother asking my mom and j showed up an hour late crying bc I didn’t have my mom there. I never asked my parents to go to my award shows and musical performances. My mom once said my musical performance was boring. I never asked her to come anywhere ever again. My teacher told me that she could be my mom, and I realize that it happens to most kids with immigrant parents.

How do you guys cope? I live in the south and it’s the same type of people here. They say people are mean everywhere so maybe it’ll just be the same if I move somewhere else? Will it? I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I’ve always wanted to leave the south. Have you guys ever felt so alone? Never having a friend group? Not feeling like you click with anyone?

Sorry this is just a rambling of my thoughts and feelings lately. I just want to know if anyone ever feels the same. I always envied to have a close relationship with my mom and be best friends with her like the girls in the south. How do you make this feeling go away?

Adding to an ever growing list of live action Japanese media adaptions including the upcoming Resident Evil and Legend of Zelda films, neither Elden Ring or Gundam has casted any male Asian actors in any role.

I'll pass on spending money on these films as well.

Hey everyone! first time posting here, so apologies if this is a little rambly.

I’m Taiwanese, but I actually grew up in mainland China before moving to the US in high school. And lately I’ve been realizing how weirdly “in‑between” that makes my identity.

In China, I was always the “Taiwanese kid.”
In Taiwan, I’m the “kid who grew up in China.”
In the US, I’m just “Asian,”

Culturally, I feel like I’m carrying three different operating systems in my head, and none of them fully match the environment I’m in. My Mandarin has a mix of accents, my English is fluent but still feels like a second skin, and my sense of “home” is split across places that don’t really talk to each other.

Sometimes it feels cool, like I can move between worlds.
Other times it feels like I don’t fully belong to any of them.

I’m curious if anyone else here grew up in one Asian culture, is ethnically from another, and then ended up in the US. How did you make sense of your identity? Did you ever feel like you were constantly code‑switching even within the Asian community?

Would love to hear other people’s experiences.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center released a free massive online textbook on Asian American history and culture. It's authored by a rather jaw-droppingly impressive list of Asian American studies academic all-stars, and I highly recommend this resource for anyone wanting to learn more about Asian American history, issues, and cultural production. AND AGAIN, IT'S FREE!!!

https://www.foundationsandfutures.org/

Check it out yourself, send it to your friends. It's beautiful, it's multimedia, it's accessible, and it's extremely well researched and written by some of the top scholars of the field.

Not trying to start some oppression Olympics, but I’ve noticed something really consistent in Australia (and honestly online too):

A lot of self-proclaimed “progressives” who act super socially aware when it comes to racism against Black people will turn around and say the most casually racist, dismissive, or dehumanising stuff about Asians like it’s completely acceptable.
They’ll go on and on about Aboriginal issues, constantly policing everyone’s language and acting like they’re the moral authority on racism… but the moment Asians get brought up, suddenly it’s:

“Asians are the most racist anyway”

“Stop complaining, you’re doing fine”

“Model minority, you guys are privileged”

“At least you’re not Black/Indigenous”

“You don’t face real racism"

And if you bring up anti-Asian discrimination, hiring bias, bullying, COVID racism, dating racism, etc, you get treated like you’re being dramatic or trying to steal attention.

Meanwhile if someone said even half that stuff about Black people, they’d get absolutely nuked socially (as they should).

But with Asians, it’s like people feel safe being openly disrespectful, because they assume Asians won’t clap back, or they think we’re too “successful” to be allowed to talk about racism.

It’s honestly a weird mix of jealousy, stereotyping, and this idea that Asians are only allowed to exist as either:

quiet worker bees, or

convenient pawns in political arguments.

And the funniest part is these same people will call themselves anti-racist.

Has anyone else experienced this in Australia?
Why do you think anti-Asian racism gets treated like it’s not serious, even by people who claim to be progressive?

Hi! I created a catalog of books about Mixed-Race Asian characters written by Mixed authors. The books are organized by which ethnicities/ identities are included, and I've got a solid start, but your help adding to this list is much appreciated! Please let me know if you have any to add.

Question- If you’re able to converse at least at a basic level in Cantonese and Mandarin, and assuming you’re an English speaker too, do you consider yourself bilingual or trilingual?