Defining AAPI
This is the term used to describe people with heritage from East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Pacific Islands.
What is AAPI?
Once considered “uncool” in American schools, this traditional South Asian hair care practice has been revived by celebrities and influencers.
What is hair oiling?
This term describes the movement of people from their home country to another for work, family, or opportunity.
What is immigration?
a soft, chewy, oven-baked flatbread that originated in South and Central Asia
what is naan?
This 2018 film became the first major Hollywood blockbuster in 25 years with an all-Asian cast.
What is Crazy Rich Asians?
This term describes grouping different ethnicities into a single category like “Asian American.”
What is pan-ethnicity?
This term, used by Minh-Ha T. Pham, describes the appropriation of racialized aesthetics by the fashion industry without acknowledgment.
What is racial plagiarism?
This 1965 law changed U.S. policy and allowed more Asian families to immigrate.
What is the Immigration and Nationality Act?
a popular sweet drink made by combining Thai iced tea with tapioca pearls
what is Thai milk tea?
The first Asian American Disney Princess, she debuted in 1998 and recently received a live-action remake.
Who is Mulan?
This phrase explains how the U.S. often treats all Asian groups as if they are culturally the same.
What is homogenization?
Critics noted that Marc Jacobs’ 2016 show featured mostly white models wearing styles historically tied to this community.
What is the Black community?
This word describes adopting the customs and behaviors of a new culture.
What is assimilation?
a Hawaiian snack made of a slice of grilled Spam placed on top of (or sandwiched with) a block of seasoned rice, then wrapped together with a strip of nori (seaweed)
What is spam musubi?
This Netflix dramedy starring Mindy Kaling centers on an Indian American teen balancing culture and teenage chaos.
What is Never Have I Ever?
This stereotype wrongly suggests that all Asian Americans succeed academically.
What is the model minority myth?
In Section III of Matthew Strohl’s essay, he argues that debates over this concept often mask power dynamics rather than genuine concern for food quality.
What is culinary authenticity?
This phrase describes maintaining cultural ties to one’s homeland while living abroad.
What is transnationalism?
This Chinese American dish, reportedly created for miners and railroad workers, combines leftover meat and gravy over crunchy noodles.
What is chow mein (American-style)
This 2020 film, praised for its realism, challenged stereotypes by portraying an Asian American woman’s sexuality without exoticizing her.
What is The Half of It?
This term refers to the belief that Asian Americans are ____ _____ no matter how long they’ve lived in the United States.
What are perpetual foreigners?
Supporters of California’s caste discrimination bill staged this form of protest outside the Capitol to push for its passage.
What is a hunger strike?
This 1882 federal law was the first major immigration restriction in U.S. history and targeted Asians.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This Filipino dessert combines shaved ice, ube ice cream, sweet beans, flan, and purple yam.
What is halo-halo?
This TikTok and YouTube phenomenon critiques men who romanticize AAPI women using exaggerated accents, outfits, or “submissive Asian girl” tropes.
What are “fetish parody” or “yellow fever call-out” videos?