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JULY 5, 2022


Hey, everyone!

We hope your Fourth of July celebrations went well. Here’s a brief overview of what you may have missed over the weekend.


Business Insider interviewed eight
first-generation Asian immigrants who built their businesses and success through their childhood values. These entrepreneurs (Priyanka Ganjoo, Rooshy Roy, Lily Liu, Deepica Mutyala, Vanessa Pham, Alexandra Dorda, Sandro Roco and Jake Deleon) are filling the market with Asian culture through the food and beauty industries, all while giving back to their communities.

Image: Founders Market

Race in America 🌎

  • At the McNay Art Museum in Texas, an exhibition titled “Reflecting Selves: Asian American Artists in Texas,” showcases five LGBTQ+ Asian Texas artists. Their work examines the model minority myth, colorism and the LGBTQ+ Asian experience through various mediums, including photography and traditional Asian art forms.

  • The CDC reports that cancer is the leading cause of death within the Asian American community. However, Asian American women remain the demographic with the lowest screening rates and face linguistic and cultural barriers. Because the Asian American community is so diverse, experts express the need for more tools to accommodate patients with misconceptions about treatment and testing.

     


In Other Asian News 🗞


Travel and Food 🥘

  • As countries continue to open up, many nations are seriously reevaluating their tourism industry, such as Bhutan, which is charging tourists a daily $200 fee to visit. The government explained that this change comes with their plan to continue reducing their carbon footprint and preserving their natural landscape.

  • Customers are aligning Asian American chefs to their heritage and not in an uplifting way. These chefs want to be more than just their Asian foods and styles. Still, they say that their ethnicity and race often reduce them to stereotypical categories of “fusion” or traditional Asian cuisine, leaving them feeling uninspired and frustrated. 

     


What else is on our minds? 🧠
 

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