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INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
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Op-Ed: Challenging Asian Privilege
BY SCOT NAKAGAWA
IE Contributor
Scot Nakagawa is a lifelong political
activist, community organizer,
organization builder, and troublemaker.
Remember the “Asian F” episode
of the TV series, “Glee”? Given it’s
name, I definitely caught it. In it, the
character of Mike Chang (Harry Shum,
Jr.) get’s an “A-” on a chemistry test
and his father loses it, demanding that
he quit his girlfriend and the glee club.
Apparently, “A-” is an Asian “F.” Mike’s
girlfriend is also an Asian American
burdened with Tiger parents demanding nothing less than perfect grades and
money machine career aspirations. The
“Glee” writers deserve a little grief for
this episode, but I’d go easy on them.
They are, after all, no exception when
it comes to casting Asian Americans as
coldly calculating model minorities.
Even political media promotes the
stereotype. Either intentionally or by
default, political reporters from MSNBC
hosts Melissa Harris-Perry and Chris
Hayes on the left, to the racist author
of “The Bell Curve” and occasional
National Review columnist Charles
Murray on the right have perpetrated
it. And last year, a report by the Pew
Research Center entitled “The Rise of
Asian Americans” propelled the stereotype into the 21st century, becoming a
primary data source for news outlets
nationally.
So let’s get real for a moment. Asian
America is made up of over 45 distinct
ethnic groups speaking over 100 language dialects. Among these groups,
some, such as Hmong Americans, are
among the poorest in the U.S. by ethnicity.
Moreover, statistics concerning our
success exaggerate. The reality is that
larger Asian-American family incomes
result in part from a larger number of earners per household. Asian
Americans actually trail whites in per
capita income. And the most successful Asian American ethnic groups – the
Taiwanese, Indian, Malaysian and Sri
Lankan American minorities – include
a large share of members who were
drawn to the U.S. as business investors
or highly skilled workers. That means
that Asian Americans are by no means
representative of Asians globally. U.S.
immigration policy plays a role in constructing the Asian American “race.”
But regardless of the disadvantages
some of us face, many Asians do enjoy
privileges beyond the reach of other
people of color. That might explain
why some Asian Americans are bought
into model minority stereotyping. Their
attitudes mirror many on the right
whose response to Asian-American
protest against Asian stereotyping goes
something like, “Can’t you people take
a compliment?”
But this Asian complicity with
the stereotype is dangerous. Why?
Consider this.
As I’ve pointed out before, the
model minority stereotype originated
as a tool to leverage white resentment toward the Civil Rights and Black
Power movements. In the midst of
widespread black protest, the Asian
model minority debuted in the media
as evidence that racism will fall to
quiet hard work, self-sacrifice and
compliance with authority. The model
minority was contrasted with “problem
minorities” in order to undercut support for reform. Between the lines, the
suggestion was that black culture, not
white racism, was the reason for black
poverty, and black protest, for that reason, was neither legitimate nor helpful
to black people who would do better
to fix themselves than to try to fix the
country.
Yet Asian Americans have prospered, and more, some would argue,
than other people of color, as a result
of de-segregation, voting rights reforms,
and programs like affirmative action.
When we play into “problem minority”
racism we threaten these gains.
Now, I get that the relatively small
share of the U.S. population that is
Asian American makes us less a threat
to white racial domination than, say,
Latinos or African Americans. And,
for that reason, when Newt Gingrich
refers to “entitlement junkies” and Mitt
Romney disparages the 47 percent,
they don’t have us in mind. But, we
ought not kid ourselves. Dodging these
attacks doesn’t make us safe.
Asian Americans may be only 6 percent of the U.S., but Asians are a very
large percentage of the global population. And Asian countries such as
China, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea
are considered threats to American
posterity. Playing to racism by exaggerating that “threat” is becoming a popular strategy of elected leaders trying
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Jagged Noodles:
Baby Arriving
Soon, No More
College-Style?
BY HUY X. LE
IE Columnist
The baby is now 37 weeks, which
means he can arrive at any time now.
Sometimes, I put my hand on Jameelah’s
stomach and can feel him moving around,
a feeling that is both exhilarating and
emotional and also very creepy. It’s like
that one movie where the alien bursts out
of that woman’s stomach, but instead of
an alien popping out, it would be one of
the Care Bears. Maybe Funshine Bear.
For the past few months, we have
been getting ready for this little critter.
We sat through a three-hour class on
breastfeeding, which detailed the horrors or nursing. For example, there is
such thing as “inverted nipples.” Plus, if
not regularly released, mammary glands
become impacted and rock hard, resulting in horrible pain in both the mother as
well as any partner who decides at that
unfortunate moment to say something
like, “Wow, I’m glad men don’t have to
do that; I’m going to go watch Iron Chef
now.”
We have also been dealing with wellmeaning relatives, many of whom grew
up and birthed babies in a much different era and aren’t always up to date on
the latest practices. My older sister, for
example, is horrified that we are giving birth in water. (Since it’s Seattle, it’ll
be organic, gluten-free artisanal water
poured in small batches). Of course, she
grew up in Vietnam, and we certainly do
not do that.
Jameelah’s grandmother, meanwhile,
is also concerned. Nanna is a wonderful
person who now has four grandkids, all
mixed-race. This will be her first greatgrandchild. She’s been concerned that
Jameelah is turning “too Vietnamese” and
that our baby might be, too. When telling
her that we would be having the birth in
water, she asked if that’s the customary
practice in Vietnam. That’s hilarious. If
I weren’t so fond of Nanna, I’d tell her
that all the children are born that way
in Vietnam. We take the mother to the
ocean, where the baby arrives into the
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world and immediately swims to catch its
first fish, which we use to make a symbolic fish sauce. When people live too
far from the ocean, they just give birth in
a tub, but they add lemongrass and star
anise to the water for that delicious pho
aroma.
As the days count down, I’ve been
experiencing mixed emotions. Definitely
strongest is this excitement about meeting
the baby for the first time, and holding him
and singing him to sleep with a soothing
lullaby rendition of “No Diggity.”
I also start to realize that my life will
be changed forever, and that the days of
doing things college-style are numbered.
No more clubbing. No more inviting
friends over at 11 p.m. to watch a movie.
No more staying up till 4 a.m. playing
video games while eating Spicy Sweet
Chili Doritos, which are like crunchy
morsels of happiness. It is bittersweet,
knowing that I am getting older and
that the things that make me happy may
change. I must become more responsible
now, since it is no longer just my life that
I must look out for. I must become a better
person.
But then I think, “Oh helllllll no!”
As much as I love this baby and will do
what’s best for him, I am not going to
give up on everything that I love for his
sake. What sort of message will that send
him? That once you’re a parent, your life
is over? The key is balance. I’ve started
lining up babysitters so that Jameelah
and I can still go out from time to time.
Friends can still come over; we’ll just
need to move our booze to a higher location. We will find family-friendly bars.
We are not going to be parents whose
lives revolve around their kids, chauffeuring them around to karate and soccer
games. We will provide love — lots of
it, but I am not giving up my favorite TV
shows.
I know, I am not a father yet, so I have
little experience in how babies change
people’s lives. But still, this kid is my son,
and I have a responsibility as his father to
teach him what I think is important for his
happiness.
“Huy Jr.,” I would say, “there is much
awfulness in this world, but also so much
joy and kindness and humor. When you
have your own kid, give up on some, but
never all, of the things that make you
happy…Now, Nanna is coming to pick
you up for the weekend, so go rub some
lemongrass on your face.”
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March 20, 2013 - April 2, 2013 —— 3
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Ang Lee and the Uncertainty of Success
BY JEFF LIN
IE Contributor
Jeff Lin is the former editor
of International Examiner,
startup co-founder of
Captricity, and former
keyboardist and guitarist of Seattle
indie pop band Harvey Danger. He
currently lives in San Francisco, Calif.
In 1993 I interviewed film director
Ang Lee before the U.S. premiere of his
second movie, “The Wedding Banquet,”
at the Seattle International Film Festival (at
the time I was editor of the International
Examiner, and we were one of their media
sponsors). At the time, Lee was an unknown
in the U.S., an anomaly as a Taiwan-born
immigrant director in the United States,
mostly notable for having been the NYU
classmate of the more famous director
Spike Lee.
Nearly two decades later, it’s Ang Lee
who’s won an Oscar for “Best Director”
(his third nomination) and nominated for
“Best Picture” (his fourth nomination) for
“Life of Pi.” And in terms of overall tally,
“Life of Pi” (11 nominations) trailed only
Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (12 nominations).
It’s hard not to root for Lee — an unassuming, down-to-earth guy that sends his
kids to public schools, does the cooking
and shuttles his sons to cello lessons when
he comes home. I have always had a personal affinity for him, partly because he
was super-nice to my parents (they were
seated next to him at the premiere of “The
Wedding Banquet”); partly because he
was gracious both times I interviewed him;
partly because he’s from Taiwan (he has the
same accent as my parents) and is kicking
ass, but not in semiconductors, manufacturing or medicine. Those are all factors.
But the thing that I perhaps relate to
most (and the part that you hopefully find
as inspiring) is the part of his story that’s
between the lines, specifically these lines:
1984: Graduates New York University
(NYU), signed by William Morris agency
after winning the Wasserman prize with
“Fine Line”
1990: Wins prize for two scripts in a
contest sponsored by the Taiwanese government. Gets backing to direct his first
feature, “Pushing Hands”
From age 30 to 36, he’s living in an
apartment in White Plains, New York try-
ing to get something — anything — going,
while his wife Jane supports the family of
four (they also had two young children)
on her modest salary as a microbiologist.
He spends every day at home, working on
scripts, raising the kids, doing the cooking.
That’s a six-year span — six years! — filled
with dashed hopes and disappointments.
“There was nothing,” he told The New
York Times. “I sent in script after script.
Most were turned down. Then there would
be interest, I’d rewrite, hurry up, turn it in
and wait weeks and weeks, just waiting.
That was the toughest time for Jane and
me. She didn’t know what a film career
was like and neither did I.”
It got so discouraging that Lee reportANG LEE continues on Page 15
IE NEWS
Students Call for Humanitarian Aid to Assist North Korean Refugees
BY NATHAN URETA
IE Contributor
Nathan Ureta is a student in the
University of Washington Department of
Communication News Laboratory.
University of Washington (UW) students recently learned about North
Korean refugees from a perspective not
normally given voice in mainstream
media: that of a North Korean refugee.
On Thursday, March 7, the UW chapter of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK),
a nonprofit organization dedicated to
aiding North Korean refugees, held an
on-campus screening of the documentary “Danny From North Korea.” The
30-minute film deals with Korean refugee Danny Lee’s escape from North
Korea to the U.S., outlining his family’s
hardships during the North Korean famine of the 1990s.
“Because of the hardships I experienced in North Korea, I went to China,”
Lee said in documentary. “In China, I
found out about LiNK and through LiNK,
I decided to go to North America.”
Lee’s widowed mother, who supported her family by harvesting and selling food in a market, traveled to China
numerous times in 1997 to find other
sources of income.
“[In China], my mom’s eyes for the
first time were opened to the outside
world, and to the lies she had been
told,” Lee said.
When she did not return from China
during one visit, Lee decided to flee the
country and search for his mother. He
was 17 at the time. “Danny in North
Korea” shows the poignant reunion of
Lee and his mother, his life in the U.S.,
and also documents his current work
with LiNK.
While Lee was not actually in attendance, LiNK intern Mike Thompson
shared his experience living with him in
Torrance, Calif. after the film showing.
“[The other LiNK interns and I] got
to spend time with him and through
that time, we found out that he’s a real
person,” he said. “He’s not a soldier
or loyalist like the majority of North
Koreans are portrayed. He’s just a regular guy that wants to follow his hopes
and dreams.”
LiNK is greatly committed to shifting
the perspective of North Korea among
the general public. Since most discussions of North Korea involve political
turmoil and nuclear weapons, the focus
on the people under the regime is lost.
LiNK intern Rachel Lewis explained
that while discussion of North Korean
politics is important, the public should
also recognize the humanitarian aspect
of the crisis. North Koreans under the
regime are denied basic human rights,
suffer chronic food shortages and poor
public health care, for example.
In addition to heightening public
awareness about this North Korea crisis, LiNK also raises funds for aiding
potential refugees, helping North Korean
expatriates escape from China, where
they aren’t legally recognized as refugees
and run a high risk of being captured
and deported back to North Korea. The
international grassroots organization utilizes a modern-day underground railroad
through Southeast Asia to aid the refugee
escape to countries where they are safe,
and once resettled, LiNK helps refugees
gain self-sufficiency through education
So far, LiNK has aided 129 refugees
and housing opportunities.
through sheltering and resettlement supLast fall, UW student Nakbin Sung port. But Lee in the film, who’s currently
started the UW chapter of LiNK, a res- working toward a GED in Torrance, said
cue team. First learning about LiNK’s much more work remains.
efforts in his freshman yaer, Sung decid“I may be free, but I still have family
ed he couldn’t wait until after gradua- and friends living in North Korea,” Lee
tion to get involved; he started the UW said. “Until they have their freedom, until
Rescue Team with five of his friends.
all people are free, none of us are.”
Right now, one of their primary goals
is to raise $2,500, which is enough to
bring one refugee from North Korea into To support LiNK’s humanitarian efforts,
resettlement in the U.S. or South Korea. the organization encourages people to
Since its inception, the rescue team donate monthly, attend its fundraisers
at UW has held events in collaboration and purchase their organization merwith the Korean Students Association to chandise. To learn more or donate,
raise awareness of the humanitarian crisis please visit libertyinnorthkorea.org.
in North Korea. To
get involved, Sung
urges
KoreanAmerican students
to simply educate
themselves.
“A
lot
of
Korean students
don’t understand
or care any more
because they’ve
been hearing this
rhetoric for so
long,” he said.
“They hear these
stories from the
media, from their
parents, from their
friends. As they
hear them, they
become indifferent. That’s one of
the most dangerous things.”
Danny Lee. Photo credit: CBS News.
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$500,000 Incubator Plan Could Build Stronger
Businesses in the Chinatown-International District
From left to right: Cara Bertron, Lissa Eng and Quang H. Nguyen of Seattle Chinatown/ID Preservation
and Development Authority (SCIDpda), who are lobbying for $500,000 to support a new business model in
Chinatown-International District. Photo credit: Nancy Siu.
BY JESSICA DAVIS
IE Contributor
As part of a new business incubator initiative, vthe Seattle Chinatown/ID
Preservation and Development Authority
(SCIDpda) is currently seeking $500,000
from the State Capital Budget, to support local businesses in the ChinatownInternational District (CID).
“Currently, we don’t have anything like
that,” said Nguyen. “It’s going to bring
in a whole new type of industry to the
neighborhood that’s complimentary to the
existing businesses and it’s going to bring
in new customers.”
Seattle’s CID is currently home to
about 450 small businesses and has
served as an economic ladder for entre-
preneurial new immigrants and longtime citizens for more than a century,
noted Quang Nguyen, Sr. Economic
Development Specialist at SCIDpda,
adding that it is becoming more and
more difficult to start and sustain a small
business in the neighborhood — and
the entire Seattle area. Rising rents and
equipment costs are pricing out many
potential entrepreneurs, thus weakening
the backbone of the economy. Nguyen
and his team at the SCIDpda have been
talking to legislators, including Sen.
Adam Kline D-Seattle, in an effort to pass
the incubator initiative, which proposes
assistance for small businesses to exist,
despite escalating costs, and gives them
a fighting chance to stand on their own.
Its mission is to preserve the cul-
tural fabric of the neighborhood and keep
the neighborhood alive. According to
Nguyen, it consists of three components.
The first is incubating businesses in the
graphic, architecture or landscape architecture design industry to grow through
the Design INC project. It would serve
15 to 20 businesses a year to support the
development of services and finding their
market niche. The second component
would include providing a co-working
space, where office workers could come
and go, through a membership, and use
amenities such as computers, printers
and high speed internet – keeping major
expenses such as rent and equipment relatively low. The last component would be
the development of a business counseling
center to connect small start-ups or existing businesses to consultants, training and
other business improvement resources,
including planning and marketing.
“We’re hoping to create 50 jobs in
the first year, as well as serve at least 80
neighborhood businesses annually,” said
Nguyen.
The project also aims to serve 30 to
45 micro-entrepreneurs and independent
contractors each year, and create approximately 50 jobs in year one through growth
of incubator businesses. By investing in
this project, notes Nguyen, Washington’s
taxpayers will support the creation of new
businesses and jobs, as well as help to
strengthen existing businesses.
The $500,000 initiative would begin
at the Bush Asia Center building, where
SCIDpda hopes to develop close to a
4,000-square-foot shared office space.
This is part of a larger rehabilitation effort
of the building by SCIDpda, which began
in 2008. During the first phase of construction, noted Nguyen, approximately
9,600 square feet of office space and
3,300 square feet of community spaces
were built-out with electricity, heating
and plumbing. This allowed the Bush Asia
Center to house a community hall with
kitchen, senior activity center, two community-based nonprofits, and SCIDpda’s
main office. Significant weatherization to
improve energy efficiency was also part of
the cost.
The rehabilitation includes upgrades
to the building’s electrical, heating, and
plumbing systems. A fully built-out scenario for the Bush Asia Center building is
estimated to cost a total of about $6.5 million (including capital costs from the first
phase). This figure includes the build-out
of additional raw shell spaces in the building, which are not part of the incubator/
co-working space. Depending on availability of funding, construction could start
as soon as winter 2014.
In addition to the new business
incubator initiative, Nguyen noted that
the SCIDpda also recently received a
$10,000 grant from the Washington State
Microenterprise Association, in addition
to a $15,000 grant from Cathay Bank, to
develop a business technical assistance
program for start-up businesses in the
CID. The program will offer workshops on
marketing, business planning and management, as well as one-on-one business
assistance planning, to help neighborhood businesses become more profitable
and competitive in the market place.
SCIDpda is currently partnering with different agencies and institutions in the
city, including the business schools at
Seattle University and the University of
Washington and Greater Seattle SCORE,
which offers free and low-cost business
counseling and workshops.
“Seattle has very distinct neighborhoods. Each has its own character because
of the small businesses,” said Nguyen. “If
it becomes too expensive for small businesses to start and continue, we will end
up with large chains like Subway and
McDonalds, and end up becoming a suburban strip mall.”
Revitalizing International District with Festivities:
Communities Unite to Drive Business into the Neighborhood During Tough Times
BY PEI CHOU
IE Contributor
Transportation, parking difficulties and
lengthened construction in preparation
for the First Hill Streetcar continue to trouble local businesses in the ChinatownInternational District (CID). As the neighborhood recovers from an estimated 20
to 30 percent drop in business after last
year’s elimination of the King County
Metro free-ride zone and parking rate
hikes last year (recently brought down),
concerned business owners — more than
ever — look to community festivals to
reinvigorate business. During the current
fragile economic state of the neighborhood, this year’s Nihonmachi Nite and
Celebrate Little Saigon play a crucial role
in revitalizing the neighborhood.
Nihonmachi Nite – Bringing Rich History
to Light
Local business owners and Seattle
Chinatown/International
District
Preservation and Development Authority
(SCIDpda) team up again this year to for
another Nihonmachi Nite event. Tracing
back to its roots, Seattle’s Nihonmachi
(Japantown) has many businesses
that reflect the rich cultural history of
Japantown.
“The business owners wanted … to
share the vibrancy of today’s Nihonmachi
and celebrate its rich history,” explained
Allison Iguchi, visual/communications
coordinator of IDEA Space – a SCIDpda
program, who helped coordinate
Nihonmachi Nite for the past two years.
Debuted in 2011, Nihonmachi Nite
takes place in early August with live
cultural performances, food and activities. Participating restaurants either have
booths outside or offer special deals
under $5, including sushi platters, beer
and Japanese appetizers. Family-friendly
activities like MOMO’s Spam-O-Rama
spam musubi contest, Kiddie Kimono and
Yukata contest, exhibits in nearby galleries
and guided tours of Japantown also allow
families to experience the colorful pulse
of the neighborhood. Still a relatively
young event, Nihomachi Nite has been a
huge hit in the previous two years. With
more than 500 estimated attendees last
year, local businesses were grateful.
“Nihonmachi Nite brings in people
beyond our usual scope [of regular shoppers], and some of them return when
the action is long over,” said local shop
owner, Lei-Ann Shiramizu of MOMO
Seattle.
SCIDpda encourages involvement of
nearby businesses either through participating as a vendor or joining the planning
process, which many businesses, such as
MOMO Seattle, have done enthusiastically.
But will continued construction curb
attendance?
“Hopefully construction won’t affect
Nihonmachi Nite too much, since the
main stage will be a street over and
people will be able to walk around to
the different Japantown businesses,” said
A Nihonmachi Nites guest displays delectables from the annual “Spam-O-Rama” spam musabi contest. Photo
from Nihonmachi Nites.
Iguchi, “It’s exciting to have so much buzz
already. It’s important spread the word out
early this year. All the businesses really
needed this.’’
To Kent Lee, owner of the Red Lantern
Restaurant, this is music to his ears.
“The construction has affected business a lot, especially during lunch hour,”
he said. “People are in a hurry during
lunch, and when they see the barricades
outside the restaurant, they just go somewhere else instead.”
Happy with last year’s turnout, Lee is
hoping for the same success this year: “It
was great! It brought in a lot of people
and customers, it will be good to have that
again this year.”
Although there were no measurable
data that showed how much business
revenue was generated from Nihonmachi
Nite, the event undoubtedly drove visible
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INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER
March 20, 2013 - April 2, 2013 —— 5
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Tamarind Tree to Master More than Springs Rolls, Debut New Cuisine
BY ROXANNE RAY
IE Contributor
Paid for with Carl D. Perkins Funds.
Seattle’s International District (ID) will
soon be celebrating Asian food, fun, and
community. The ID Spring Roll Party happens on April 25th at the Georgetown
Ballroom, and many local restaurants are
gearing up to offer some special treats for
the festivities.
One restaurant that will be participating in the ID Spring Roll is the Tamarind
Tree on South Jackson Street.
“Our customers at the ID Spring Roll
event love a lot of authentic Vietnamese
foods, especially street foods,” says
Tamarind Tree owner Tam Nguyen.
The Tamarind Tree will be serving six
different dishes during the VIP reception
and nine dishes during the general reception.
“Some of these are dishes that are
not on our regular menu,” Nguyen says,
“such as beef pate chaude topped with
handmade aioli, baked shrimp mousse
baguette, watercress beef garlic salad,
braised coconut and pork with jasmine
rice, and our famous lemongrass beef
baguette.”
But the ID Spring Roll wouldn’t be
complete without Tamarind Tree’s popular
spring rolls.
“Our Tamarind Tree rolls are known
in town because of the freshness of the
ingredients,” says Nguyen. “But the most
important ingredient is the mini eggroll
shell inside the roll, which gives guests a
layer of textures for enjoyment. We are the
first to present fresh rolls with open ends
and in an upright position, which shows
fresh lettuce at each end.”
The Nguyen family has decades of
experience offering signature cuisine in
Seattle: Pho Van opened in the late
1980s, followed by Tamarind Tree in 2004
and Long Provincial in 2008. In each of
these ventures, the Nguyens have dealt
with numerous challenges, including city
and state regulations, the creation of
unique dining environments and training
service staff at each new restaurant.
Nguyen says that overcoming these
challenges taught his family how to work
together to accomplish goals. He says
these mutual efforts have brought “our
family members closer, respectful to and
appreciated by each other.”
Beyond their family itself, the Nguyens
are interested in connecting with the
larger community and sharing their success with others.
“Our businesses provides opportunities for people wanting to thrive in the
kitchen or in the front of the house,
including providing staff benefits (medical insurance and 401K), improving the
dining experience at our establishmentsn
and working closely with our staff to bring
their skills up to the level of the mainstream industry,” Nguyen says.
Then, those who have gained skills
can engage in entrepreneurial activities of
their own.
“Some of our ex-employees have
opened their own restaurants using our
techniques of cooking and presentation,”
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Left: Braised meat. Photo credit: Tamarind Tree. Right: Tam Nguyen. Photo credit: onlyinseattle.org
Nguyen says. “These successful restaurant owners have created more jobs for
our community and provided additional
dining places.”
Tam Nguyen himself is interested in
pursuing further business ventures, as
well. “My dream is to create a night market,” he says, “where the patrons can visit
an indoor market that offers household
needs, ready-to-eat foods cooked right on
the spot, local handmade products, and
hopefully, a place where small businesses
can incubate for the future.”
But for now, Nguyen and the
Tamarind Tree are looking forward to
sharing Vietnamese cuisine at the ID
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Preserving History Through Food: Phnom Penh Noodle House
BY MINH NGUYEN
IE Contributor
Battambang’s favorite noodle, but another show them somebody that achieved somedefinite dish to try is the “sa-gnao jruok ktiss thing.”
meurn,” a brothy soup that is reminiscent
When Ung retires, the restaurant will
of Thai tom ka, flavored with coconut milk, be taken over by his two daughters. His
lemongrass, generous chunks of galangal, daughter, Dawn Cropp, says the restaurant
chili tamarind paste, mushrooms, cilantro business is much harder than she originally
and fat, juicy shrimp.
thought.
With the incredible success of Phnom
“My dad used to say, ‘You’re female, you
Penh and Ung’s recent book, “I Survived
can’t run this business on your own,’
the Killing Fields,” many are speculating
and I used to think he was being
about his next steps. Rumors have been
sexist,”Dawn laughs. “But now
circulating, perhaps wishfully, about
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a second restaurant. However, Ung
Vendor
states that this won’t be the case, and
that he plans to retire from the restaurant business and involve himself with
humanitarian work in Cambodia.
The Khmer Rouge left Cambodia’s
land and people in devastation, and Ung
plans to go to Cambodia to train people
in what he calls “permanent life skills” to
generate a source of income and achieve
financial independence. Ung differentiates his humanitarian aspirations from
those of current nonprofits who travel
overseas to do the same work because he
has known firsthand what they’ve gone
through.
“They need to see me,” Ung says. “I
could be inspirational to them. I could
It is often the case that when people
migrate and acculturate to America, the first
thing they lose from their native culture is
the language, the last the food. Sam Ung,
owner of Phnom Penh Noodle House in
the International District (ID), offers a cultural and historical education of Cambodia
through its authentic dishes. Phnom Penh
provides us with a different way to remember—not through words, but through flavor.
Ung has always taken deep pride in the
quality and authenticity of his food, often
going back to Cambodia to do what he
calls “research eating.” “My food is better,”
Ung laughs smugly. Cambodian cuisine is
hearty with flavors, mainly from fermented
fish, and heady with herbs and spices such
as galangal, star anise, and turmeric.
When you walk into Phnom Penh, however, the first thing you’ll notice is the wall
of mounted photographs, all of which feature Ung and a public official, including
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, former Mayor
Greg Nickels and Al Gore. For many, Ung’s
story is not one of mere business success
but evokes something much larger. Ung
grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge,
one of the most brutal massacres in history,
and immigrated to
America to eventually become a highly successful restaurant owner with
a big reputation.
Contextualized in
Cambodia’s tumultuous recent history,
Phnom Penh Noodle
House
becomes
much more than
a restaurant; it’s
the epitome of the
“American dream”
narrative. While the
“American dream”
is a heartbreaking
myth for most immigrants, Phnom Penh Tofu phad thai at Phnom Penh. Photo credit: Minh Nguyen.
is a kind of proof
that it is possible, proof that once in a
while, good things happen to good people,
and that America holds possibilities —
especially for immigrants of war — for a
drastically new life.
To the right of the photographs is a display of artifacts from the Khmer Rouge. On
the display hang the quotidian— the shoes
the villagers wore on the fields—to the
macabre—the blades that people used to
cut villagers’ throats during the massacres.
The confrontation of these artifacts in the
restaurant remind his patrons that food is
inseparable from history, and Sam’s direct
relationship to these items teaches us that
massacres like this are not past-tense, but
present all around us, in the people we
encounter every day.
There is a very small Cambodian population in Seattle, and Ung intends for
Phnom Penh — named after the capital
city of Cambodia — to be a strong representation of the country’s culture among
few. While many know Sam’s restaurant as
a paragon of authentic Cambodian cuisine,
few know that Ung has an even longer history of cooking food than his 25 years of
restaurant ownership shows. Before his
success in America, Ung cooked at his
parents’ restaurant in Cambodia, in the city
of Battambang, where he grew up.
The cuisine is heavily influenced by
Cambodia’s adjacent countries, which is
why you’ll find on Phnom Penh’s menu
familiar dishes such as phad thai, tai pak
lov (Chinese herb duck), and Vietnamesestyle rice and skewered pork with fish
sauce. Ung says that a popular dish is
I know how much manual labor is involved.
It will take the both of us [daughters] to fill
his spot.”
Sam Ung and Dawn Cropp will return
as vendors this year to support the ID Spring
Roll because they believe in the importance
of participating in the betterment of their
own community.
“Plus, when you do good for the community,” Cropp says, “it’ll come right back
around.”
Spotlight
Phnom Penh Noodle House owner Sam Ung and his daughter, Dawn Cropp. Photo credit: Minh Nguyen.
“Contextualized in Cambodia’s tumultuous recent
history, Phnom Penh Noodle House becomes much
more than a restaurant; it’s the epitome of the
‘American dream’ narrative.”
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Slurp Up! – A New Japanese Soba Restaurant Settles in Seattle
BY KAZUKO NAKANE
IE Contributor
All over Japan, you will see restaurants
advertising noodles of all kinds, from
ramen to udon and regional specialties.
One noodle that evokes a soft spot in
the Japanese palette of the Tokyo area is
soba or buckwheat noodles. For them, the
smooth crisp texture of soba noodles is a
special treat. Some restaurants even have
a wood table in the front window where
you can see the noodle maker rolling out
the dough, the more to ensure customers
that the noodles within this establishment
are freshly handmade.
Mutsuko Soma, a young, slender
Japanese woman has brought real soba
noodles right to our Northwest backyard. She is the head chef of Miyabi
45th, a branch of Miyabi, a well-regarded
Japanese restaurant in Tukwila. Miyabi
45th opened last month in Seattle’s
Wallingford neighborhood taking over a
space previously occupied by Rain Sushi.
Chef Soma was born and raised in a
neighboring prefecture of Tokyo, and loved
to cook even since she was a teenager. She
came to Seattle at the age of 18. When
she turned 19, she decided to become a
chef. First, she attended the Art Institute
of Seattle, and learned French cooking,
and then worked at the Spanish restaurant,
Harvest Vine and French landmark, Chez
Shea. In Japan, she studied under a soba
master in Tokyo for more than two years. In
recent years, she honed her craft, tested the
waters and gained a reputation by serving
up delicious noodles in pop-up restaurants
all around the city.
At age of 30, she is in charge of a
kitchen with several assistants. In the
Japanese restaurant business, men traditionally have dominated in culinary arts.
With her confidence, she claims that 20
percent of chefs are now women, and
being a woman in the cooking industry is
not a handicap, but she did acknowledge
the labor of cooking requires heavy lifting.
From skillets to pans — and even something as simple as a pot filled with hot
water — it all has weight. Talking to her
one night after an evening shift she conceded “that even scooping up a bundle of
hot noodles can get heavy.”
She settled in Seattle because she
found the local moderate climate fitting
her temperament.
“I enjoy sipping a glass of wine or a
cup of coffee at home on rainy day,” she
said, laughing. She remembers one summer when she was in Los Angeles, and she
just couldn’t stand the heat.
But it was actually in Japan while
making soba noodles where she first
encountered buckwheat from the state
of Washington. This inspired her idea of
starting a soba noodle restaurant in Seattle
using byproducts from the local harvest.
In addition, soba as a grain is healthy and
full of vitamins. The essence of the best
soba noodles is a smooth, chewy texture
on the tongue and a pleasure in the way it
slurps down the throat. In order to achieve
this quality, soba grain must be ground,
the husk must be separated from the flour
through a strainer, and then the dough is
made with soba flour and a small portion
of wheat (80 percent soba flour to 20 per-
Soba noodles at Miyabi 45th. From Miyabi 45th Facebook page.
cent wheat). After that, the dough must be
kneaded and stretched thin on a wooden
board and cut into thin, long strips.
For soba, another essential ingredient is the soup stock, which Soma makes
from specially-ordered ingredients, including duck, bacon, curry and bonito. An old
traditional noodle is fashionably mixed
with a contemporary flavor. The soup stock
and noodles tasted good, though perhaps
not yet up to the gold standard of longestablished traditional soba shops in Tokyo.
Given time, though, it may reach that
goal.
Besides soba, there are plenty of other
items guaranteed to poke your taste buds
in a variety of subliminal ways. Texture,
color and the refreshing fragrance of delicate herbs and spices keep your palette
guessing. Some items on the menu are
commonly found at any Japanese restaurant like edamame, tsukemono (homemade pickles) and tendon (tempura on
the bed of rice).
But Chef Soma always adds a twist of
surprise. The agedashi buckwheat tofu,
which tasted quite different from regular
agedashi tofu (deep fried bean curd covered by soup stock), had a unique texture.
Instead of a common chicken, she uses
monkfish for karaage (deep fried chicken).
One of the standouts was the sheer
variety of light-portioned, eye-pleasing
blend of delicious salads, which should
make diet-conscious customers happy.
And of course, there are typical menu
items from the European side such as a
cheese plate (with miso flavor), steamed
crab and baked cabbage, pork belly and
egg — all done with a light flourish. With
a group of friends, we ordered different
dishes, enjoyed all of them and thought
the meal was as fancy as the price.
Chef Mutsuko Soma, 30, brings Seattle homegrown
buckwheat in authentic Japanese soba noodles. Photo
credit: Kazuko Nakane.
The restaurant serves dinner only with
a specially-selected wine list supplemented with beer and whiskey.
Now Seattle can slurp down some real,
local Japanese soba noodles with all the
comforts of a trendy, Seattle restaurant.
Miyabi 45th at 2208 N. 45th in Seattle
opens from Mondays through Thursdays
from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Fridays and
Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., and is
closed on Sundays. Contact them at (206)
632-4545.
“...[I]t was actually in Japan while making soba
noodles where she first encountered buckwheat
from the state of Washington. This inspired her
idea of starting a soba noodle restaurant in
Seattle using byproducts from the local harvest.”
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Tuck Eng: A Team Builder and Gate
Community Bridge and Senior in Action
Keeper Knows How to Negotiate ID Spring
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Community Builder awardee Nora Chan. Photo credit: International Examiner.
Community Builder awardee Tuck Eng, Photo credit: International Examiner.
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IE Editor-in-Chief
BY CHRISTINA TWU
IE Editor in Chief
It took a long time for community activist Nora Chan to accept Seattle Chinatown/
International District Preservation and
Development Authority’s (SCIDpda’s)
Community Builder Award.
“I am not really quite used to that,” Chan
says. After all, her primary work and objective with her volunteer-based organization
Seniors in Action Foundation was “just to
keep the seniors busy,” the 66-year-old
explains. “We are a very low-key organization.”
But last year, when, in December alone,
21 incidents of theft and burglary were
reported in the Chinatown-International
District (CID), Chan, neighborhood volunteers from Seniors in Action, family associations, organizations and businesses she
has worked with made a racket for their
neighborhood to the tune of $86,000. Their
goal: to fund nine surveillance cameras in
their neighborhood to keep their streets a
little safer.
“Nora’s the person behind the camera
project,” says Michael Yee, director of community development at SCIDpda. “She’s the
one who hit he pavement and went to all
the business and family associations to ask
for money.”
Long before the string of burglaries were
reported in the CID last December, where
three neighborhood seniors were robbed
and injured, Chan had been working with
the Seniors in Action Foundation, a nonprofit she started about five years ago, to
raise support for more surveillance. In late
August of 2012, she held a dinner fundraiser at House of Hong Restaurant to benefit the camera project. This raised about
$60,000 toward the project, with the likes
of Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen contributing personally, she says.
“We heard that we are the only neighborhood in the entire country that raised
money for their own cameras,” Chan says.
Where did her inspiration come from?
In 2009, she lost her husband, Dr. Austen
Chan, a longtime chiropractor in the CID,
to cancer.
“Instead of staying at home feeling sorry
for myself, my children advised me to get
involved in the community,” she says.
Meanwhile, she found that many elders
in the CID area were just sitting alone
between four walls, “waiting till the end,”
she says. So she decided to do something
about it.
She started participating in BIA’s public
safety walk and efforts to discuss and clean
up her neighborhood, bringing many of
the neighborhood seniors along. Of her
team of about 20 volunteers with Seniors in
Action, she says, “70 percent of them live in
Chinatown.”
Always concerned with public safety
and neighborhood conditions, Chan says
of the camera installations: “We tried to get
this done three years ago, but we faced a lot
of hurdles.”
Money was the first barrier. Secondly,
permission to install the cameras from each
building manager and affected business
owner was challenging, as well as identifying in the neighborhood where the unsafe
“hot spots” were. There was also the very
technical and sticky issue of privacy and
rights of community residents should the
cameras be installed —
­ something she says
her engineer colleague, Dr. Stanley Wu
helped tremendously with.
Dr. Wu, who found a vendor to design a
CHAN continues on Page 11
Last week, Tuck Eng celebrated his
79th birthday. Attending his birthday
party were 130 of his closest friends
from 20 of Seattle’s most established
Chinese families: the Engs, the Kos,
the Woos, the Chinns and the Dongs
to name a few.
He didn’t hesitate to make it a
fundraiser to ensure the ChinatownInternational District (CID) gate would
continue to be maintained and cared
for. Together, they raised about $4,000
for the historic archway.
In Tuck Eng’s life, some things just
don’t change. “All these people: We
grew up together,” Eng says. “I am still
playing tennis with six of my buddies
that I grew up with.”
In addition: “I was maintaining the
Chong Wah [Benevolent Association]
building since I was 14. I kept on
doing more and more. I am still directing all (the building’s) maintenance.”
With deep roots in the CID (Eng’s
family built the first and only house
still standing the neighborhood on 8th
Avenue), Eng has found a way to connect his personal history in the neighborhood and his deepest, longest relationships with current issues in the CID.
He’s someone that is always involved
with multiple projects at once, says
Michael Yee, director of community
development at Seattle Chinatown/
International District Preservation and
Development Authority (SCIDpda).
“Tuck has that abillity to cross those
lines and advocate for certain projects
for the buy-in” from all perspectives,
says Yee.
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Eng, who chairs the steering committee of the “Only in Seattle” King
Street business development project
— a city-funded program that provides marketing and technical assistance to neighborhood businesses —
will be receiving one of SCIDpda’s
annual Community Builder Awards at
the ID Spring Roll along with community activist, Nora Chan and Seattle
architecture firm, Kovalenko Hale
Architects.
“I didn’t want it. I don’t think I
deserve it. But Mike (Yee) and Joyce
(Pisnanont) said, ‘Come on!” says Eng.
Eng, who is partly responsible for
securing the CID’s “Only in Seattle” —
close to $300,000 a year — terminates
this year.
“If we want this program to continue, we have to get funds from the
community and prioritize the programs
that give people the most benefit,” Eng
says. “It’s a complex thing.”
Yet, Eng is able to get the work done,
and get people talking and engaged
in shaping their neighborhood.
His approach?: “Communication.
Coordination. Collaboration. And
then comes a resolution at the end, I
hope,” he says with a smile. “That’s my
motto.”
Paul Wu, vice president of the
Historic Chinatown Gate Foundation,
has worked with Eng for about a
decade.
“I really appreciate working with
him,” says Wu. “He’s such a good
leader. He knows how to pull a team
together.”
Wu recalls when he first met Eng at
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Roy Flores: 1943-2013
Community remembers Filipino-American
civil rights activist, higher education leader
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March 20, 2013 - April 2, 2013 —— 9
“[During carpool rides to Olympia],
I remember the robust conversations
we had, especially when he played
devil’s advocate. I think he did that
to keep me awake.”
-Frank Irigon, Civil Right Leader
“I thought of him — and I
introduced him whenever possible
— as the heart and soul, the
conscience, of NSCC. Passionate
about social justice, about students,
about sports, about life in general,
he would call it as he saw it and
push all of us to be our best and to
do the right thing.”
-Marci Myer, NSCC interim vice president and
dean of student development services
Roy Flores in 2005 helping a student. Photo courtesy of North Seattle Community College.
BY COLLIN TONG
IE Contributor
Collin Tong is a contributing writer for Crosscut
News and stringer for the New York Times. He was
a guest lecturer at Washington State University’s
Edward R. Murrow College of Communication and
former IE staff reporter.
He was a third-generation Filipino American whose
passions for family, community and sports carved out
a larger-than-life legacy in Washington state. A man of
strong convictions and charisma whose relentless commitment to civil rights and social justice propelled his
career in public service.
Roy Flores, the longest-serving community college
vice president for student development services in
Seattle Community College District history, former North
Seattle Community College (NSCC) interim president and
widely-respected higher education pioneer, died of lung
cancer last week. He was 69 years old.
“Roy was a leader, friend, mentor and colleague to
many at North and across the state system,” said NSCC
President Mark Mitsui. “He helped organize the community college multicultural student services directors
across the state of Washington, thereby building capacity
for providing support and assistance to students of color.”
“He leaves behind a legacy of a commitment to social
justice, student success and a passion for education,”
Mitsui added. “He also leaves us with a legacy of innovation and a student-centered philosophy. He will be
missed by all who knew him.”
Friends called him a progressive and humanitarian
and recall his unflagging devotion to his students. “He
always used sports metaphors when coaching us as team
members,” said Marci Myer, one of his closest colleagues
and interim vice president for student development
services at NSCC, who remembered one of his famous
maxims: “Think students first, then act.”
As a result of his involvement as a civil rights activist, in 1971 Flores was named the first director of the
University of Washington (UW) Ethnic Cultural Center.
He formed an advisory council of student leaders from
the Black Student Union, MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano/a de Aztlán, or the Chicano Student Movement
of Atzlan), Asian Student Coalition and American Indian
Movement.
Flores brought figures of national renown to the UW
campus to speak to students, including African-American
civil rights activist Julian Bond, Native-American author
and actor Chief Dan George, Nation of Islam leader
Louis Farrakhan and Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales, famed
Latino boxer and poet.
In the mid-1970s, Washington Gov. Dan Evans
appointed Flores to the Washington State Human Rights
Commission. While a member of the commission, Flores
worked tirelessly to eliminate the redlining practices
where lending institutions restricted housing loans for
minorities in some neighborhoods, regarded by many
state leaders to be his signature achievement.
“Roy perfected what we tried to accomplish [in civil
rights] and gave it a polish,” said Fred Cordova, a close
family friend of Flores.
From 1974 to 1984, he served as assistant director for student services at the Washington State Board
for Community & Technical Colleges (SBCTC). Flores
coordinated budget requests to the Washington State
Legislature and served as liaison to the dean of students
at SBCTC.
During his tenure at the state board, Flores became
director of minority affairs. His major accomplishment
was to provide the articulation and leadership that resulted in earmarking a minority enhancement fund from the
Legislature for the recruitment and retention of minority
students, which ultimately led to the development of an
allocation model for an educational opportunity program.
As vice president for student development services at
NSCC from 1984 to 2009, Flores continued his reputation as a trailblazer, chairing a committee to design and
build a $7 million student wellness center, institutionalizing NSCC’s Education Access/Student Disability Office,
while spearheading initial funding for Upward Bound
and tripling the Running Start enrollments.
The eldest of five children of Severo and Josephine
“Bening” Flores, Roy Flores was born in New Orleans
on Nov. 19, 1943. His father immigrated from the
Phillippines and was a member of the U.S. Navy. Roy’s
mother was born in Stockton, Calif. Roy was the first in
the Flores family to receive a college degree.
Filipino-American writer and Evergreen State College
lecturer Peter Bacho remembers Flores roots in the Asian
and Pacific Islander (API) community. “Our Americanborn generation back in the 1950s and 1960s was very
close-knit. We all came from hardscrabble, workingclass backgrounds, and Roy was one of our rising stars.
He’d set his focus on higher education — not the norm
then — and became someone we were all proud of.”
Cordova called Flores a great role model for FilipinoAmerican youth and the pride of the community. “He
taught our young people that anything was possible.
When he became acting president of North Seattle
[H]e helped shape North [Seattle
Community College] and the
district, especially our mission of
serving diverse communities. I’ll
miss our great conversations, his
positive approach to life, and his
commitment to helping every
student succeed.”
”
-Dr. Jill Wakefield, chancellor, Seattle
Community College District
Community College, that was just a tremendous honor
for us.” Besides mentoring Filipino American youth,
Flores started the Pinoy baseball team for young men,
and was a regular master of ceremony at community
social and cultural events. “He was a very, very, articulate public speaker,” Cordova said.
Growing up as a young boy, Roy’s interests were football, basketball, and baseball. Most of his friends were
Filipinos or African American. He attended O’Dea High
School, graduating in the class of 1969, where he was a
standout in sports. Basketball is a recurring metaphor for
the bond that Flores forged with his wide circle of friends.
Anthony Ogilvie, a close friend recalls Flores’ athletic
prowess and lifelong love of sports: “During our college years we all became Seattle University basketball
Chieftain fans, but Roy went even further getting to know
the stats of the players on SU’s team and players on other
teams as well.”
Flores became a walking encyclopedia of information rivaling that of Howard Cossel, one of the earliest
“Monday Night Football” sports commentators, Ogilvie
said.
Lifelong friend, Bob Flor, a Filipino-American playwright, educator and Seattle University classmate, met
Flores on the basketball court around 1955 during a
Catholic Youth Organization [CYO] tournament at Seattle
Preparatory Academy, where their friendship blossomed.
ROY FLORES continues on Page 15
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Clackamas River Series: Where Un-recyclable
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THURSDAY APRIL 25
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Georgetown Ballroom
$175 for VIP $125 for GENERAL
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upport Seattle’s Chinatown International District!
Join us for a lively cultural celebration featuring
Pan-Asian food and drinks, a spring roll eating contest,
exciting performances, fabulous auction items, and
much more. At the event we will be honoring the tireless
community-building efforts of Nora Chan, Tuck Eng,
and Kovalenko Hale Architects.
Ticket proceeds will support SCIDpda’s community
development programs and projects. For sponsorship
and volunteer opportunities, please contact
idspringroll@scidpda.org.
For event details visit www.ID Spring Roll.org
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American
Embassy, which
had been evacuated shortly after
the
Japanese
attack on Pearl
Harbor. He later
became a U.S.
citizen as an
immigrant. When his family returned
to the U.S. after the war, settling in
Portland, Ore., a lasting impression
for Dozono had been the amount of
trash generated in American culture.
Throughout his childhood in Japan
practically everything was kept and
reused in some way.
Painting, teaching art, cultivating
friendships and fishing became prominent activities in Dozono’s life. At favorite
fishing spots he and his friends would
encounter trash that they would pick up
and carry out. Dozono’s trash service
comes once a year. His trash is composed
of anything that cannot be composted or
recycled. Much of it has been recycled
into his paintings since 1991.
When first viewing the large paintings
in Robert Dozono’s “Clackamas River
Series” exhibit, one is immediately swept
into textural impressions of a wooded
riverscape — the Clackamas swirls and
tumbles over stones, lazily making its
way toward the viewer. Positioned in its
midst, viewers watch the river recede
into a distant horizon, banked by bowed
trees that admit sky and rivulets of sunlight. This scene is repeated in various
renditions with Dozono’s unrecyclable
trash as an intervening layer that conspires to be integral to the view. Each
variation is an exploration of composition, light, shadow, volume and color,
as he works the forms and colors of the
garbage pieces into the requirements of
the overall image. Every object brings its
own problems to solve.
At a distance the garbage paintings look like impressions of the Upper
Clackamas, vibrant with the colors of a
woodland riverscape and teeming with
irregular textural bumps. Light reveals
the three-dimensionality of the trash
although they are painted into the scene.
As one closes in on the painting — from
toothbrushes, plastic bottle caps and
lids, to containers, toothpaste tubes, and
prescription vials, sponges, bottle pumps
and wrappers — items we discard without a second though come into focus.
A rock in the middle of the river gets its
dimensional volume from a couple of old
scrub sponges.
“Children get excited by being able to
recognize the trash,” says Dozono.
The sheer number of objects in the paintings makes an indisputable statement
about our consumerist culture. A few
of the paintings’ titles are taken from a
random package label or two, such as
“Good Earth Original — Kiss My Face”
(that Dozono must be mindful of not
totally covering with paint in case he
forgets), adding another layer of irony to
the work.
The trash in Dozono’s paintings exhib-
“Welcome to the
Neighborhood” by
Robert Dozono,
now on view.
its a kind of dark beauty of its own
in their arrangement on his canvasses.
There is a dynamic interplay between the
embedded objects with the expression
of the natural beauty of the Clackamas
scenes — playful yet disturbing, subtle
yet overwhelming.
Relief comes in “Upper Clackamas
#16,” a sans garbage painting where the
view is rendered in charcoal and watercolor with a lively and light gestural hand
of swift brushstrokes in browns, greens,
blues accented with golden yellows,
that capture the natural beauty of the
Clackamas River environment. The saturated colors of an oil painting in the same
series lend summer’s lushness to a similar
scene. The water looks cool and inviting.
The series echoes Dozono’s penchant
for thorough study of a subject to draw
his own conclusions. He retired some
years ago from his teaching position at
Portland Community College where he
garnered many loyal students, some of
whom returned to continue to study with
him and some who are now working
artists. His teaching style and philosophy, derived from his own experience of
deliberate investigation, includes making
mistakes and repeated practice.
“How will you know where to draw
the correct line if you don’t have the mistake to work from?” he asks.
Drawing sessions included a subject
that would change position every two to
five minutes, and students had to draw
without looking directly at their work,
so that they would focus on observation.
No erasing was allowed. As a teacher, his
objective was to get students to become
fearless about drawing, which encouraged
them to continue to explore and eventually to discover their own directions. This
process illuminates the simple respect
Dozono shows for everyone he encounters, as well as for the natural world.
A first edition book compilation of
Dozono’s works (available at the gallery),
entitled “Robert R. Dozono –
Accumulation | Work 1963-2009,”
thoughtfully designed by graphic designer, Adam McIsaac, reveals Dozono’s
engaging combination of humility and
forthrightness that make him such an
interesting personality as a teacher and
artist.
Robert Dozono’s “Clackamas River
Series” is viewable at Francine Seders
Gallery from March 8 to March 31, 2013.
Learn more at www.sedersgallery.com.
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IE NEWS
CHAN continues from Page 8
camera system suitable for the neighborhood, says he initially approached Chan
with the idea of camera installation several years ago after she expressed concerns
about neighborhood safety. Wu checked
the legality and protocol of installing public cameras in the CID with the city, King
County Prosecutor and the state attorney
general; both Chan and Wu were tasked
with establishing a surveillance protocol
that the neighborhood was happy with.
“This policy is [now] governed by the
community safety group,” says Wu. The way
the cameras are installed now with the current protocol is that second-floor windows
(residential units) are blocked from surveillance activity throughout the neighborhood,
and police cannot access any audio from
camera surveillance without first asking the
Seattle Chinatown Business Improvement
Area (BIA).
“If police want a recording, they have to
go to the BIA office to get the recording, and
explain why they need the recording,” Wu
says.
After years of advocating for these cameras, it wasn’t until December that this type
of surveillance seemed to be crucial to
most community members—after seniors
suffered violent burglaries. “This time it’s
easier because of these results.”
Chan saw her community members step
up after this. She saw that business and
building owners were much more accepting of the idea of having camera’s installed
onsite.
“Business is so bad lately, yet these business owners were willing to chip in,” she
says.
She was also inspired by the group of
seniors she worked with: “It touched my
heart because when the seniors opened
their pockets, even if they had (just) $2,
$10, they gave their money. … They were
so excited to raise their money. They asked
their children to give $10, $20.”
In addition, more than 26 family associations made hundreds of donations, including members of the Soo Yuen, Bing Kung
FESTIVITIES continues from Page 4
and measurable traffic into the neighborhood and giving Japantown much-needed
recognition.
The official date for Nihomachi Nite
2013 has yet been decided, but is set to
take place in early August. In the meantime, anticipation of the event is building
up already among the community members.
For more information please visit http://
www.nihonmachinites.com/
Celebrate Little Saigon – Uniting the
Community With Fun and Excitement
In 2011, Friends of Little Saigon (FLS),
a nonprofit advocate for Little Saigon, partnered with SCIDpda and hosted the very
first Celebrate Little Saigon, a night festival that brought visitors and communities
together to celebrate the neighborhood.
“I love these kinds of events, I see all
the shop owners come out to the street
and mingle during Dragon Fest. I really
want to see something like that for Little
Saigon!” said Quynh Pham, community
builder at SCIDpda, who was the overall
event coordinator for the past two years.
Celebrate Little Saigon is a night of
festivities with traditional Vietnamese
live performances, contests, arts and
crafts activities, games and food from
local restaurants. With free admission,
visitors get to enjoy outdoor screening
Vietnamese films, authentic live musical performances, and enter the Ao Dai
and Chong Wah associations.
Don Blakeney, executive director at the
BIA, says that Chan’s work has opened
doors and built bridges for the organization,
especiallywhen Chan takes BIA staff to restaurants and family associations to explain
potentially confusing neighborhood efforts
in Chinese.
“She’s good at explaining why those
changes are coming, how it’s good for the
community and how the community should
support it,” says Blakeney. “She’s also good
at bringing her concerns to us. She’s in [the
BIA office] every day telling us, ‘I heard
from this person that this is going on.’ So, it’s
really good to have that finger on the pulse,
otherwise I’m flying blindly. I do reach out,
and we do have our connections, but it’s a
whole different level when you have people
who are that ingrained in the community.”
Chan says she’ll continue to work on
camera installation in the neighborhood,
in addition to civically engaging Seniors
in Action volunteers in voting and voting
rights, and taking them on field trips to parks
and short vacations to Vancouver on the
weekend. Right now, nine cameras watch
over the core for the CID neighborhood, but
areas out on CID margins such as the corner
of 6th Avenue and Dearborn, need surveillance, too, she says, hoping that by the end
of the summer, a total of 12 cameras will
watch over the CID.
Her other focus will be the clean alleyway program she’s involved in, an effort in
which she actively speaks with businesses
about in order to clear out big dumpsters in
CID alley ways.
“We hope that when we have visitors,
we will not have to be ashamed to have to
welcome them to such a dirty place,” Chan
says.
In working with Chan for nearly seven
years now, Dr. Wu is delighted to continue
the teamwork.
“With Nora, I never will get tired of working with her,” says Wu. “She has the kindest
heart that I have ever known. She’s totally
selfless. Anytime anyone needs her to help,
she helps them. So when she asks me, ‘Stan,
can you help me?’ I can never say ‘no.’”
(traditional Vietnamese costume) fashion
contest. Restaurants from Little Saigon
also set up as street food vendors at the
event serving their dishes at low prices.
With more than 300 attendees last year,
the event has experienced tremendous
success. Many community organizations
volunteered and partnered with Celebrate
Little Saigon, including University of
Washington (UW) Vietnamese Student
Association, Vietnamese Friendship
Association, Tet in Seattle and more.
“I’m glad that the local community
and organizations put forth the effort and
time to put on these events. It brings the
community together and promotes the ID,
businesses, and Asian culture,” said Karen
Mu, owner of Shabu Chic, who participated in last year’s Celebrate Little Saigon.
Shops and community organizations
worked together to bring forth a welcoming social gathering that showcases
the neighborhood and celebrate culture,
history, and talent of the Vietnamese
American community.
The organizing committee of Celebrate
Little Saigon has been actively soliciting
feedback and involvement from local
businesses on how to improve the event.
Business owners not only get to participate as a vendor for the event, they also
get to voice their input and concerns
along the way.
Although most of the businesses in
Little Saigon have their own private parking lots, the traffic congestion caused by
the construction has turned away many
visitors, including shoppers at Viet Wah
Supermarket on the corner of 12th Avenue
and Jackson Street.
ENG continues from Page 8
a family association meeting.
“When he first called me up, he said,
‘Well, let’s build a gate,’” Wu remembers. Wu told Eng he needed more
information about building a gate in
Chinatown, some measurements, etc.
“The next thing I know, he had a
hand-drafted drawing of the gate,” Wu
says.
Wu would follow Eng to the location
where the historic gate would eventually be built in 2008 with a tape measure,
says Eng.
By 2008, the gate was built with the
Historic Chinatown Gate Foundation
established.
“Building the gate was a major milestone,” says Eng, especially since it was
a historic monument that was paid for
and built by the community.
Eng and his colleagues had raised
enough support to build the gate, but
maintaining it requires much more: an
annual city street permit of $1,6000 and
$7,000 of liability insurance. In addition, general maintenance and electricity of the gate adds up to about $9,000
a year, says Eng. The city also requires
the group to take out a $50,000 line of
credit designated for city tearing-down
fees in case nobody can maintain the
gate, says Eng.
Eng attributes his abilities and skills
in making sure projects are up-to-standard to his 41 years at Boeing as a manager in technical support for subcontractors.
“I spent my last four years traveling
the world,” Eng says, referring to his last
four years at Boeing before retiring in
1995. “That’s where I learned to do what
I do here [in the CID]. …When I went
to China, [manufacturers] asked, ‘Why
are you so particular? Why can’t you be
81 percent in compliance?’ and I would
say, ‘No, you have to be 100 percent
in compliance.’ You have to argue with
them on certain points, and be flexible
on other points. That’s the same thing
here. You got to work things out to make
sure everybody’s happy.”
Ben Grace, program manager at the Seattle Chinatown Business
Improvement Area (BIA), where Eng
is on the board, sees the Eng’s unique
imprint on the CID.
“Having been born here and raised
here, he has a unique perspective,”
says Grace. “He understands why he
neighborhood needs what it needs, he’s
a great voice for the community, and he
always has the best interest of the neighborhood at heart.”
Back in the day, Eng says, everyone
in the CID stuck flypaper to their walls
due to the ubiquitous flies and overflowing dumpsters. Eng is looking forward
to April, when his neighborhood will
be dumpster-free, he says. He’s also
excited about the neighborhood’s translated street signs project, something he’s
worked on for years. With community
outreach for this project beginning last
fall, Grace says Eng has really outdone
himself.
“He has reached out to just about
every organization I can think of to get
their input,” says Grace.
Don Blakeney, executive director of
the BIA, sees Eng as a great collaborator
and problem-solver with a determination of steel.
“He never questions whether something is possible,” says Blakeney, who
has described Eng’s perpetual attitude
as: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Any problem Eng encounters, “He’s
like, ‘Where there’s a will, there’s a
way,’” says Blakeney.
Eng’s deep roots in the neighborhood have benefited his community
efforts, says Grace. Eng was born in
Chinatown, raised in Chinatown and
has remained loyal to the communities
he has engaged with since he was a boy
maintaining the Chong Wah property in
the 1950s.
Some things — like Eng’s profound
service to the CID community — never
do change.
Participants in the annual fashion show at Celebrate Little Saigon. Photo credit: Friends of Little Saigon.
“It has been frustrating,” said Leeching
Tran, vice president of Viet Wah
Supermarket.
“We know that the street car is ultimately
going to help the area once it is finished,
but it is a two-year project, and the immediate negative impact of all the construction is putting a strain on our business.”
Concerned that the construction might
affect turnout, SCIDpda and FLS are starting early to build more momentum for
Celebrate Little Saigon 2013, reaching
out to more participating organizations to
expand capacity this year, and working
closely with Seattle Streetcar Network to
promote the event and local businesses.
Official date and location of 2013
Celebrate Little Saigon is still to be
announced, but will take place in August.
Though circumstances are tough, events
like Celebrate Little Saigon are the true
essence of a united community at work.
Businesses are looking forward to revitalizing the neighborhood and celebrate
their hard work.
For more information, please visit: http://
friendsoflittlesaigon.org
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IE FILM
‘Emperor’ delivers on war,
not on romance
BY ADAM ROSENBECK
IE Contributor
With the motion picture industry’s
fascination with World War II well into
its seventh decade, you’d be forgiven
for thinking you’d seen it all before.
However, director Peter Webber’s (“Girl
With a Pearl Earring”) latest film avoids
the familiar montage of explosions and
gunfire and instead crafts a revealing
look into one of the most pivotal decisions of the post-war period.
After its defeat at the end of World
War II, the Japanese government surrenders to the allied powers. A special
tribunal, led by U.S. General Douglas
MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones), is established to put Japanese leaders on trial
for war crimes. Chief among these leaders is Emperor Hirohito, a man revered
as a living god by his people. MacArthur
knows that if the emperor is found guilty
and executed, the nation’s citizens will
revolt, threatening the U.S.’s precarious
occupation and opening the door to
Communism. However, both the Justice
Department and the American public
demand vengeance for the attack on
Pearl Harbor. The man MacArthur charges with determining the emperor’s culpability and the future of an entire country is General Bonner Fellers (Matthew
Fox), an expert in Japanese culture who
has his own ties to the country.
Given only 10 days to submit his
report, Fellers conducts one meeting
after another with inscrutable Japanese
leaders who are reluctant to implicate or
exonerate their emperor. While Fellers
slowly unravels the truth, he orders
his Japanese aide (Masayoshi Haneda)
to start a far more personal search. In
a series of flashbacks that are dotted
among the scenes of political intrigue,
we discover that Fellers was in love with
a Japanese exchange student named Aya
(Eriko Hatsune) in the years before the
war. After she returned home without
leaving him so much as a letter, he followed her to Japan where they began
their romance anew, only to be torn
apart by the onset of war. Now, with
much of the country lying in ruin, he is
determined to discover her fate.
Screenwriters David Klass and Vera
Blasi may have intended this romantic
storyline to offset the dry world of political decision making, but the tactic isn’t
successful. Running just over an hour
and a half, the movie never gives the
romance the time it needs to be fully
realized, and it always feels secondary
to the main event. When the two plot
threads do intersect in the final act, the
connection feels contrived. “Emperor”
would be better served if the writers
focused entirely on the political machinations of the United States and Japan.
The film partly makes up for the weak-
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Aya (Eriko Hatsune) and General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox) in “Emperor.”
er story elements with a strong cast.
Following his Academy Award nominated performance in last year’s “Lincoln,”
Tommy Lee Jones delivers another winning historical portrayal. Clearly loving
the part of the Supreme Commander,
Jones’ MacArthur is confident, crude,
and charismatic whether devising strategies for reconstruction or posing for
photographs with his trademark pipe.
He’s given many of the picture’s best
lines and provides some levity to the
drama. Veteran Japanese actor Toshiyuki
Nishida is also memorable in the
role of Aya’s uncle, General Kajima.
EMPEROR continued on Page 13
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March 20, 2013 - April 2, 2013 —— 13
IE FILM
Like Someone
with Secrets
BY YAYOI L. WINFREY
IE Contributor
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Rin Takanashi stars as Akiko in “Like Someone in Love.” Photo credit: IFC Films.
Even though it’s a French production helmed by an Iranian director,
“Like Someone in Love” remains purely Japanese in cinematic storytelling.
The celebrated, Tehran-born, filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami seems intuitively
familiar with the mores of the Japanese
and displays his cultural knowledge
through characters who never reveal
their true identities. Underscoring the
custom of leaving something unsaid
to be discerned by someone else,
Kiarostami’s tale features a classic
Japanese societal convention: obscurity.
At the movie’s opening, the sounds
of a bar — tinkling glasses, tipsy giggling — swirl beneath the whining of
a young woman’s disembodied voice
arguing with someone who can’t be
heard. From the beginning, Kiarostami
creates this mode of ambiguity. With
two invisible characters engaged in a
one-sided conversation, it sets the tone
for a story about misidentification due
to murkiness.
Several minutes later, the camera
reveals Akiko (Rin Takanashi) quarreling with her boyfriend on her cell
phone. A Tokyo university student who
moonlights as a paid escort, Akiko also
finds time for the possessive Noriaki
(Ryo Kase) who jealously monitors her
every move.
Meanwhile, her pimp (a middleaged man whose bland looks gives him
the appearance of an accountant) urges
her to spend the night with a new client. Akiko balks; she’s tired, her grandmother’s in town, and she doesn’t feel
like working. But her pimp is insistent.
This client is personally important to
him. Even as Akiko protests, he walks
her down the stairs and tucks her into a
waiting taxi.
C i n e m a t o g ra p h e r
Katsumi
Yanagishima brilliantly captures the
busy ambience of an all-night city
teeming with neon. On her way to the
client, Akiko’s face presses against the
window reflecting the flashing lights
that the cab passes.
Anxiously watching from his apartment window, the client, Takashi
(Tadashi Okuno), is constantly interrupted by phone calls seeking his
expertise as a respected professor and
translator. When Akiko arrives, she
becomes intrigued with a painting on
his wall that her family also happens
to own a copy of. Takashi then tells
her the history of the painting before
a game of tug-of-war ensues. Having
prepared a soup popular in Akiko’s
hometown, he wants her to share the
dinner with him. But Akiko wants to go
to bed and get down to the purpose of
her visit.
The next day, as Takashi drops Akiko
off at the university, a lurking Noriaki
lunges at her. They struggle, but she
breaks free. When he notices Takashi
waiting in his car, Noriaki mistakes
him for Akiko’s grandfather. From that
point on, the three characters assume
the identities that they thrust upon each
other.
Former Bellevue resident Ryo Kase
is menacing as Noriaki, a high school
dropout who owns his own auto shop.
But a flaw in the script has him volunteering to fix Takashi’s car, and because
he didn’t drive himself to where they
met, he has to endure an uncomfort-
able ride with Takashi and Akiko that
also allows them to talk. That scene
begs for an explanation of why an auto
mechanic with his own garage doesn’t
drive his own vehicle.
As for pretty Rin Takanashi, her
character isn’t given much to do except
to feel helpless. Unable to say ‘no’ to
her pimp or the abusive Noriaki, Akiko
can’t even bring herself to return a
phone call to her grandmother who
insists on visiting her.
However, Tadashi Okuno as the professor gives a riveting performance. His
anxiety over pleasing a call girl young
enough to be his granddaughter is
intriguing, particularly since sex does
not seem to factor into his desires.
Instead, he seems more interested in
providing her with academic knowledge, protecting her from the temperamental Noriaki and becoming her
accidental grandfather.
The tension of Akiko’s tumultuous
relationship with her hair-trigger boyfriend grasping telltale flyers of her picture plastered all over town, along with
the professor’s attempts to befriend her
while his relentlessly ringing phone
interrupts his efforts, is excruciating.
And, when a nosy neighbor with a
developmentally disabled brother is
thrown into the mix, the situation
becomes unbearable.
Nearly flawless, this movie is about
three people with secrets so potent ,
they cause each to behave like someone in love.
EMPEROR continued from Page 12
doesn’t have the sweeping panoramas
of some of the more lavish period
films. However cinematographer Stuart
Dryburgh makes the most of New
Zealand’s natural beauty, transforming
it into a convincing wartime Japan.
Contrasting the bleak blue-gray pallet
of war torn cities with the warm hues
of the prewar flashbacks, his imagery
complements the movie’s narrative and
is supported by an understated musical score that incorporates traditional
Japanese instruments.
While hindered by a flat love story
and lacking some of the emotional
weight the subject deserves, “Emperor”
is an earnest film that will appeal to
audiences curious about this decisive
moment in history. With the United
States currently engaged in a number of
foreign military occupations, the picture offers a timely lesson about the
necessity for cultural understanding
and mutual respect.
Unfortunately, lead actor Matthew
Fox is saddled with the bulk of the
movie’s expository dialogue and is
given few chances to shine. The result
is an assured, but unremarkable performance. Eriko Hatsune is similarly
burdened by her character’s traditional
reserve.
A modestly budgeted production
by Hollywood standards, “Emperor”
“Like Someone in Love” is showing at
the Egyptian Theatre in Seattle.
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March 20, 2013 - April 2, 2013 —— 15
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ANG LEE continues from Page 3
edly contemplated learning computer science so he could
find a job during this time, but was scolded by his wife
when she found out, telling him to keep his focus.
Put yourself in his shoes. Imagine starting something
now, this year that you felt you were pretty good at, having won some student awards, devoting yourself to it full
time…and then getting rejected over and over until 2019.
That’s the middle of the term of the next President of the
United States. Can you imagine working that long, not
knowing if anything would come of it? Facing the inevitable “So how’s that film thing going?” question for the fifth
consecutive Thanksgiving dinner; explaining for the umpteenth time that this time it’s different to parents that had
hoped that film study meant you wanted to be a professor
of film at a university.
It wasn’t until 1991 that Lee finally got a chance to
helm his first movie, “Pushing Hands,” which wasn’t even
released in the U.S. But after “Pushing Hands” came “The
Wedding Banquet,” the film that would be his U.S. breakout and net him a “Best Foreign Picture” nomination; two
years later, “Sense and Sensibility” would bring him into
worldwide prominence; then a string of hits: “Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” “Brokeback Mountain,” and now
“Life of Pi” that have made him a common figure in the
Oscar proceedings and the box-office charts ($576 million
and 11 nominations for “Life of Pi” alone).
Of course, looking at the Ang Lee story now, who
wouldn’t want to trade places: what’s six, seven, 10,
even more years if you knew it would result in massive
worldwide commercial and critical success? It’s common
to hear “follow your bliss” or “do what you love and success follows.” Sounds great, right? Except here’s one small
detail: You never get to know if it’s ever going to happen.
You don’t get to choose if and in what form the success
manifests; you don’t get to choose when it arrives.
It’s not as if you say, “Okay, universe, I’m ready for my
turn! Any day now!” For some people ,it happens immedi-
ately; for others they get steady bits of success over time;
and for others, they have long, long stretches of nothing
over years. Another detail that I’ve always wondered about:
during this long period at home, his NYU classmate Spike
Lee releases three films, including the commercially successful and universally acclaimed “Do The Right Thing” in
1989. Having been in similar situations, I can only imagine
it stirred a very complex set of emotions.
If you’re an aspiring author, director, musician, startup
founder, these long stretches of nothing are a huge reason
why it’s important to pick something personally meaningful, something that you actually love to do. When external
rewards and validation are nonexistent; when you suffer
through bouts of jealousy, wondering “How come so-andso got signed/is successful/got a deal, etc?”; when every
new development seems like a kick in the stomach, the
love of what you are doing gives you something to hang
onto.
Much is made of genius and talent, but the foundation of any life where you get to realize your ambitions is
simply being able to out-last everyone through the tough,
crappy times — whether through sheer determination, a
strong support network or simply a lack of options.
On the night of the Oscars, when they announced “Life
of Pi” as a contender in its 11 categories and gave Ang Lee
an Oscar for “Best Director,” make a note to remember it
the next time you hit another rough patch — a series of
rejections, a long stretch of nothing. Your achievements of
tomorrow may be very well be planted with the seeds of
today’s disappointments.
P.S. “Life of Pi” is an adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2001
Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name. It
recently surpassed sales of 3.1 million volumes. Of course,
first it was rejected by five London publishing houses
before being picked up by Knopf Canada.
A version of this story was originally published in Jeff Lin’s
blog. Read more at www.jeffjlin.com
ASIAN PRIVILEGE continues from Page 2
to win political points with an increasingly resentful
public.
The combination of xenophobic Asia-bashing and
model minority stereotyping makes Asian Americans
targets of resentment. And certain realities are causing
that resentment to rise.
Asian Americans are about 18 percent of students at Harvard, and almost a fourth of students at
Stanford. The sheer numbers of us at the most elite
academies domestically, and the infusion of Asian
investment capital from abroad is creating cracks in
the bamboo ceiling. People who look like us to the
general public are increasingly being used as symbols of American social mobility at a time when too
many Americans find themselves mired in the mud of
a recessed economy.
Considering the history of forever foreign, yellow peril Asian stereotyping, I suggest that basking
in the glow of it’s equally dehumanizing flip side is
extremely dangerous. Instead, we should be looking
at the recent Southern Poverty Law Center report on
the record-setting rise of white militias, and studies
revealing growing racial animosity since the election
of our first black president with grave concern.
Privilege without power makes us vulnerable. To
build power in a country whose racial demography is
tilting against whites, we would do best to build bonds
of cross-racial solidarity with other people of color. To do
that, we must look beyond our common suffering and
accept accountability for the privileges that divide us.
This piece was originally published in the blog Racefiles,
a feature of racial justice think tank, ChangeLab. To read
more fresh research and thought-provoking commentary on race, please visit www.changelabinfo.com or
connect with them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/changelabinfo) and Twitter: @change_lab.
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ROY FLORES continues from Page 9
“I recall going to Roy’s house and would see him
highlighting in yellow information in the daily newspaper’s sport pages names of players and their stats,” Flor
remembered.
Flores and childhood friend, Pio DeCano, played ball
together for several memorable seasons on the Pinoy
softball season. “While our record didn’t reflect the talent we collectively had as a team, Roy was instrumental
as the coach/manager in pulling together and organizing
diverse group of Filipino-Americans athletes into a team
that all teams in our league would have to play their best
in order to beat Pinoy,” he said. “Roy’s leadership in this
regard was second to none. He was a fine hitter but was
even more adept as a pitcher at snaring hard-hit balls up
the middle that normally would be hits.”
Flores was very active in the local prep sporting
scene, said Rod Matsuno: “He knew more about young
athletes in the area than anyone I know. … [H]e could
be found at most O’Dea games regardless if it was varsity
or the freshman teams. From football to basketball and
baseball, Roy was there and more knowledgeable about
what was happening than the coaches.”
Flores was renowned for his dapper, “man-abouttown” appearance. Teresita Batayola, executive director
of International Community Health Services, recalls
first meeting him when she was a student at Seattle
University, and he was on the UW staff. Like many of
his friends and colleagues, she remembers Flores for “his
style and cool.”
In a letter to a friend, Flores once confided: “My hobbies
are collecting jazz music, playing slow-pitch softball in an
adult men’s league and vacationing in Hawaii. I love men’s
fashion, and my favorite designer is Giorgio Armani.”
Novelist and UW English professor Shawn Wong,
who played basketball with Flores for years, has similar
memories of Flores’ legendary penchant for fine clothes.
“I don’t remember Roy ever sweating, even though he
played basketball in a tailored, three-piece wool suit and
leather loafers with tassels.”
Equally legendary was Flores’ commitment to mentoring young people like Batayola: “Roy was always
interested in learning about my interests and aspirations.
Years later, still early in my career, we worked in [different departments in] Olympia, and again, he continued to
have genuine interest in my development, periodically
offering ‘have-you-thought-about-[this]?’-type of advice,
always with a wry sense of humor and the perspective
of a Filipino American who has experienced barriers, yet was succeeding.”
Diane Yen-Mei Wong, former director of Washington State Commission
on Asian Pacific American Affairs, had
similar memories of Flores’ influence
on her career.
“Roy and I were a part of a car
pool of folks that made the daily trek
between Seattle and Olympia in the
1970s,” she said. “Though we all took
turns driving and keeping each other
awake, the one constant was the conversations we had about our communities, the work we wanted to do
and had to do, our friends, our favorite
foods, our lives and what we hoped we
could make of them. Roy often used his
insight and humor to help us to think
more deeply about our conversations.
He was a wonderful community leader,
mentor and friend.”
Another close friend, Dale Tiffany,
said of Flores: “Throughout his entire
life Roy understood, as Archbishop
Flores (middle) makes the lineup card for Pinoy. To his left is John Ragudos. To his right,
Desmond Tutu said ‘that we all belong Roy
Steve Canda. Photo courtesy of Bob Flor.
in one family… the human family -- a
family in which there are no outsiders.’ Later, Roy would rower viewpoints. … We have more degrees but less
demonstrate this belief on a regular basis as he worked as sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts,
an administrator and leader throughout the higher educa- yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.”
“We have learned how to make a living, but not a life.
tion system in Washington state.”
To Seattle’s Filipino-American community in Seattle, We’ve added years to life, but not life to years. We’ve
been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble
Roy Flores was the exemplar of leadership.
“Roy was integrity and pride when it came to being crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. … We’ve
Filipino,” said Flor. “He fostered a continued sense of done larger things, but not better things…Remember that
the importance of recognizing who you were and what Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
your people and culture gave you. He traveled to the but by the moments that take our breath away!”
By all accounts, Roy Flores led a life well lived that
Philippines several times to see family, further honing a
sense of roots. He actively participated in developing this took our breaths away and leaves behind an enduring
sense of community and family with Pinoys up and down legacy for API communities and Washington’s higher
education system. He is survived by his wife Angie, sisthe West Coast.”
In a message to North Seattle Community College ters, Linda and Theresa, brother Larry, and three daughcolleagues on his final day at work, November 19, 2009, ters, Shawna, Dina and Marisa.
Flores shared some thoughts as he was about to retire, at
age 66, from “a very rewarding career in higher educa- A Vigil Service with Rosary will be observed at 8:00
pm, Friday, March 22, 2013, at Immaculate Conception
tion.”
Quoting words from the late George Carlin, he wrote: Church, 820 18th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122. A Catholic
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday,
buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but nar- March 23, at the church. All are welcome.
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