Demographics/Stats
Pop Culture
Politics
Advocacy
History
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The estimated number of US residents in 2012 who identified as Asian or Pacific Islander (either one race or mixed).
What is 19.5 million?
100
Point guard for the LA Lakers.
Who is Jeremy Lin?
100
The political party that the majority of the A/PIA population leans towards.
What is the Democratic Party?
100
The full name of the umbrella A/PIA student organization on campus, and five organizations under it.
What is United Asian American Organizations? And (any five) AAA, CSA, VSA, TASA, FASA, Kopitonez, SAAN, YK Mentorship Program, AMP, JSA, aKDPhi, PAPhi, LPE, KPL, SASE, TWSA, AIV, probably more
100
This act in 1882 prevented Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
The three largest Asian American ethnic groups.
What are Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans?
200
Popular actor and comedian known for works like the TV show Parks and Rec and the comedy tour Buried Alive.
Who is Aziz Ansari?
200
Number of A/PIA members of the 114th (2015-2016) US Congress
What is 14? (11 Representatives, two Delegates, and one Senator)
200
This concept appears to elevate Asian Americans by portraying them as an elite group of successful, highly educated, intelligent, and wealthy individuals, but it can also be considered an overly narrow and overly one-dimensional portrayal of Asian Americans.
What is the model minority myth?
200
On June 23, 1982, this man was bludgeoned to death in Detroit by two white auto workers who had been laid off and blamed “the Japanese.”
Who is Vincent Chin?
300
The percentage of Asian Americans who self-identify at LGBT.
What is 4.3 percent?
300
The first Asian American artist to top the Billboard 100.
Who is Bruno Mars?
300
The percentage of Asian Americans who turned out to vote in 2012.
What is 47 percent?
300
This is the first and largest intercollegiate Asian American student conference.
What is ECAASU (East Coast Asian American Student Union)?
300
This man challenged the Supreme Court in 1944 that Japanese internment during WWII was unconstitutional.
Who is Fred Korematsu?
400
The Asian American population grew by this percentage from 2000 to 2010.
What is 46 percent? (this makes us the fastest growing major race group in the US!)
400
The first Asian American to win an Oscar. (hint: Best Director)
Who is Ang Lee?
400
The first A/PIA to serve in the US Senate.
Who is Hiram Fong? (1959-1977)
400
Two major issues many A/PIA face today in the US. (according to wikipedia lol)
What is (any two) illegal immigration, race-based violence, stereotypes, bamboo ceiling?
400
The term 'Asian American' was an idea invented in this time to bring together Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes. Soon other Asian-origin groups, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Hmong and South Asian Americans, were added.
What is the 1960s?
500
The estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the US who came from Asia.
What is 1 million?
500
The star of the first American sitcom about an Asian American family in 1994.
Who is Margaret Cho? ("All-American Girl")
500
The highest-ranking Asian American politician in US history.
Who is Daniel Inouye? (US Senator from Hawaii; Democratic Party member; President pro temper of the US Senate from 2010 until his death in 2012)
500
This organization was founded in 1973, and is a national organization dedicated to advancing the social, political, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans in the United States.
What is OCA (Organization of Chinese Americans)?
500
This act increased the numbers of Asians coming to the U.S. by raising the total quota and reorganizing system of preferences to favor certain professional groups. This allowed Asians with training in medicine, high technology, and other specialties to enter more easily.
What is the Immigration Act of 1990?
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