Pop Culture
This Chinese-Icelandic jazz pop singer won a Grammy in 2024 for Traditional Pop Vocal Album for her album Bewitched.
Laufey
This is the US state with the largest Asian population.
California
This pickled dish of napa cabbage or other fermented vegetables in a spicy, sour seasoning mixture is the national dish of Korea.
Kimchi
This Mongol conqueror is known for creating and ruling what was considered to be the largest empire in world history. (Before the British overtook him.)
Genghis Khan
This is the calendar traditionally used by people from the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese communities.
The Lunar Calendar
This is the famous Hong-Kong American martial artist founder of Jeet Kune Do, actor, director, and philosopher who attended the University of Washington, opened his first martial arts school in Seattle, and is now buried in Volunteer Park next to his late son.
Bruce Lee/Lee Jun-Fan
This is the capital city of Palestine that is religiously significant to followers of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Jerusalem
This Vietnamese sandwich consists of a baguette filled with various types of meats and vegetables.
Banh Mi
This is the name of the site of the earliest developments of the First Agricultural Revolution from around 10,000 BC that is now present day Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Kuwait. Widely considered to be one of if not the world’s oldest human civilization in history.
Mesopotamia
This is the title of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
The Dalai Lama
This TV show created by Mindy Kaling follows high schooler Devi Vishwakumar as she navigates relationships with her friends, family, and love interests.
Never Have I Ever
This is the 3rd longest river in Asia that runs through China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The Mekong River
This plant-based, protein rich dip is named after its primary ingredient, chickpeas, in Arabic.
Hummus
This Filipino American union organizer who worked alongside Cesar Chavez fought for the labor rights of farmworkers.
Larry Itliong
This portable circular tent is used by nomadic groups across Central Asia and Mongolia.
A yurt/ger
This is the Hmong American gymnast from Minnesota who was the 2020 Olympic all-around gold medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist and the 2024 Olympic all-around and uneven bars bronze medalist.
Suni Lee
This mountainous region between Northern India and Pakistan is currently disputed by both countries.
Kashmir
This is the invasive fruit originally native to South America that the Dole plantation company is known for large-scale producing in Hawaii, for which they helped overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom to continue profiting off of and became so successful that this fruit is now associated with Hawaii.
Pineapple
This stateless Southeast Asian ethnic group was recruited and mostly betrayed by the US CIA after making a deal to fight for the US in the Vietnam War in exchange for being allowed to come to America. There is a large community of refugees of this ethnic group that live in Minnesota.
The Hmong people
This is the official language of Iran.
Farsi or Persian
This Filipino electronic dance music genre went viral on TikTok in 2024 and was used by people to showcase various outfits of theirs with the “Emergency” song.
Budots
This island in the South Pacific known for its huge moai stone sculptures with large heads was colonized by Chile and now is currently a Chilean province.
Rapa Nui/Easter Island
This South Asian curry dish made with chicken, tomatoes, cream, and various spices is thought to be created by Bangladeshi immigrant chefs in England and is widely eaten in India but became so popular in the UK that many British people consider it their “national dish.” (lol)
Chicken Tikka Masala
This Indigenous Pacific Islander group native to Aotearoa or New Zealand were one of the only indigenous peoples who’ve won reparations for colonialism in 73 settlements from the New Zealand government from 1998 to 2018.
The Māori people.
This Japanese author who wrote short stories in the 1910s and 20s, such as Rashomon, In a Grove, and The Spider’s Thread has the most prestigious literature prize in Japan named after him.
Akutagawa Ryunosuke