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Noodles on Your Birthday — Chinese Birthday Traditions and Superstitions.

Disclaimer: My family moved to Mauritius a few generations ago from a very small village in China. Therefore, these are probably very dated, small town traditions and may not reflect modern Chinese culture. Also, perhaps they are of mixed Chinese, African and Indian origin, I don’t know. …

Birthday

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Noodles on Your Birthday — Chinese Birthday Traditions and Superstitions.
Noodles on Your Birthday — Chinese Birthday Traditions and Superstitions.
Birthday

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6 days ago

Becoming American — Reflections on my journey to becoming the naturalized U.S. citizen I am today

Immigration is so common it might seem banal, but it profoundly changes you as a person. It changes your identity, how you relate to your new home, and your old one. After witnessing the 2016 and 2020 election cycles, the pandemic, the rise of anti-Asian hate crimes, and the national…

Asian American

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Becoming American — Reflections on my journey to becoming the naturalized U.S. citizen I am today
Becoming American — Reflections on my journey to becoming the naturalized U.S. citizen I am today
Asian American

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May 4, 2022

What Went Wrong When Spotify Celebrated AAPI Heritage Month
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AAPI Heritage Month 2022 in music and beyond

A year has gone by since I wrote this article, and I thought I'd check in on how the music industry is celebrating AAPI Heritage Month this year. Will there be a repeat of the tone-deaf promotion of Asian artists in lieu of Asian-American ones? …

Aapi

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AAPI Heritage Month 2022 in music and beyond
AAPI Heritage Month 2022 in music and beyond
Aapi

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Mar 6, 2022

Reconnecting with my many muses — what I’ve learned from writing 14 songs in 28 days

Every songwriter starts their journey longing to convey the complexity of the human condition into digestible nuggets of perspective. Somewhere along the way, we learn the craft. We pick up techniques to overcome writer’s block, to avoid clichés, to critique our work, to make every word more potent. Inevitably, we…

Fawm

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Reconnecting with my many muses — what I’ve learned from writing 14 songs in 28 days
Reconnecting with my many muses — what I’ve learned from writing 14 songs in 28 days
Fawm

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Jul 26, 2021

Resort to Love: how I got to help represent my island in Netflix’ upcoming flick

June 2020. Long before the film even had the vague title “Untitled Alicia Keys Project”, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius was abuzz. Rumor had it that Netflix was flying an entire crew to shoot a film on the COVID-free island. …

Netflix Originals

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Resort to Love: how I got to help represent my island in Netflix’ upcoming flick
Resort to Love: how I got to help represent my island in Netflix’ upcoming flick
Netflix Originals

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Jul 1, 2021

What is an American name? What Bob Dylan and Chloe Bennet have in common.

Some of the biggest names in entertainment industry were Wonsal, Gershowitz, Bulsara, Beilin, Konigsberg. Don’t recognize any of them? Perhaps you are more familiar with the Anglicized versions: Warner, Gershwin, Mercury, Berlin, and Allen? After my last article on the music industry’s celebration of AAPI Heritage Month, I was invited…

Aapi

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What is an American name? What Bob Dylan and Chloe Bennet have in common.
What is an American name? What Bob Dylan and Chloe Bennet have in common.
Aapi

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·Updated Jun 10, 2021

What Went Wrong When Spotify Celebrated AAPI Heritage Month

And how the music industry can do better — The perception of us as Asians who happen to be in America, as opposed to Asian Americans, is so deeply rooted that even well-meaning efforts like Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month features put their foot in it. Now that we’ve wrapped up AAPI Heritage Month, I want to…

Racial Identity

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What Went Wrong When Spotify Celebrated AAPI Heritage Month
What Went Wrong When Spotify Celebrated AAPI Heritage Month
Racial Identity

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May 15, 2021

Things people say to Asian Americans at music conferences

#1 Where are you *really* from? “Where are you from?” asked the elderly British gentleman seated next to me. We were at a music conference in Los Angeles. Expecting a modicum of political correctness when attending business functions, I was mildly annoyed at the question. “Canada,” I replied with a smile. “But where is your family…

Stopasianhate

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Things people say to Asian Americans at music conferences
Things people say to Asian Americans at music conferences
Stopasianhate

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Aug 11, 2020

Help Mauritius 🇲🇺 survive Wakashio — a guide for the Mauritian diaspora.

It is hard to watch helplessly as the dark fluid oozes onto our favorite shade of blue. Here are four ways to help meaningfully from afar. Our motherland, Mauritius, went from obscurity to being a prominent fixture of international news in a matter of days. Everyone has heard of the…

Mauritius

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Help Mauritius 🇲🇺 survive Wakashio — a guide for the Mauritian diaspora and visitors.
Help Mauritius 🇲🇺 survive Wakashio — a guide for the Mauritian diaspora and visitors.
Mauritius

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Jun 3, 2020

Powerful ways to be anti-racists.

Why is this country still treating African Americans so poorly? How can it be that “the land of the free” can so easily disregard freedom of its own people? Inertia. Sadly simple. For most of us, lighter-skinned individuals, it is too easy to go back to “normal” life when the…

BlackLivesMatter

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Powerful ways we can all be better allies.
Powerful ways we can all be better allies.
BlackLivesMatter

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Sherry-Lynn Lee

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LA-based writer, artist, producer who used to be a Silicon Valley engineer. Mauritian, Canadian. www.23rdhr.com

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