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East Asian Americans in the film and media industry are often fetishized and exoticized, perpetuating damaging images of asian women as either the "dragon lady" or "lotus flower" dichotomy. An example is Lucy Liu 's dragon lady character O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill , as well as Anna May Wong's character in Daughter of the Dragon .
Huping Ling (令狐萍) – professor of History at Truman State University, author; Liu Kwang-ching (劉廣京) – Historian of late imperial China; University of California, Davis. Betty Lee Sung (宋李瑞芳) – former professor of Asian-American Studies at City College of New York; 'leading authority' on Chinese Americans [26] [27]
Shien Biau Woo became the first Asian American statewide officer in the Northeast, when he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Delaware in 1984. Leana Wen, prominent Asian American and public health leader, currently Commissioner of Health in Baltimore. David Wu, first Taiwanese American U.S. Representative (D-OR) Lily Wu, mayor of Wichita, Kansas
Image credits: Rafal Oleksiewicz / Getty Images #2 Lionel Messi. Lionel Messi is yet another soccer player on this list. Like Ronaldo, the Argentinian megastar started his football career early on ...
Yeoh's achievement was particularly poignant given the history of anti-Asian discrimination in Hollywood. Merle Oberon, a best actress nominee in 1935 for “The Dark Angel," hid her South Asian ...
Artist Jasmine Cho makes exquisite portraits that champion famous and forgotten Asian Americans. May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but Cho's cookies bring attention to ...
Frank Jao – pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, California, and the Asian Garden Mall; Eric Ly – co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking service [16] Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively [17] David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of famous Sriracha Chili ...
Selena Gomez is the most-followed woman, actress, singer, and North American on Instagram, with over 421 million followers. Virat Kohli is the most-followed Asian on Instagram, with over 270 million followers. Narendra Modi is the most-followed politician on Instagram, with over 92 million followers.