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This social media platform, notoriously run by China, features comedy, music, dance, and challenges.
What is Tik Tok?
What is the biggest holiday in East Asia, extending to all parts of the continent?
Lunar New Year
Name three ethnicities encompassed under "South East Asian American"
Burmese Americans, Cambodian Americans, Filipino Americans, Hmong Americans, Indonesian Americans, Laotian Americans, Malaysian Americans, Mien Americans, Singaporean Americans, Thai Americans, and Vietnamese Americans
What is the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated around October and November?
What is Diwali?
This false stereotype says that Asians are more successful than other minority groups because they work harder. It puts all Asians in a monolith and creates resentment between POC.
What is the model minority myth?
This basketball player was booted from numerous teams before setting off a month-long winning streak with the New York Knicks
Who is Jeremy Lin?
This is where bubble tea originated from.
What is Taiwan?
How many islands are there in Southeast Asia, rounded to the nearest thousand?
What is 20,000?
This South Asian country had the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites
What is India?
The 2014 exoneration of police officers who killed African American Eric Garner (by chokehold) led Asian Americans to create this hashtag.
What is #Asians4BlackLives?
The group Far East Movement became the first Asian American music group to get a hit on the Billboard Top 100 with this song
"Like a G6"
This noodle soup is popular in the Vietnamese cuisine where its served usually with beef, Asian basil, cilantro, lime juice and bean sprouts.
What is pho?
Which Pakistani activist advocates for girls' education, published a widely read autobiography, and is the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate?
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This Country had Colonial Possession over India.
Who is England?
Set and filmed in India, this 2008 drama film won 8 academy awards and grossed over 377 million dollars.
What is Slumdog Millionaire?
In Chinese superstition, this object should never be given as a present to another person meaning a time to the end of life.
What is a clock?
The 2008 American drama film Gran Torino is the first mainstream US film to feature this group of Southeast Asian Americans.
Who are Hmong Americans?
Which Indian American comedian, writer, and political commentator is best known for his show Patriot Act?
Who is Hasan Minhaj?
It was this European Nation that had ruled over the Philippines for over three centuries.
What is the Spanish empire?
Connie Chung, one of the first Asian American national correspondents for a major TV news network, reported for what national news anchor?
What is CBS / CBS Evening News?
This is the second largest racial group who is undocumented in the United States
What is Korean
Originated in Southeast Asia, literally mean “sour-tasting”, this food has spread to southern China before introduced to Japan, used as a preserving process where salted fish was wrapped in soured fermenting rice.
What is sushi?
This South Asian country is the smallest in size
What is Maldives?
It is the Island which served as a major Asian immigrant processing center on the west coast.
What is Angel Island?