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The 1992 riots in this city, referred to as Sa-I-Gu (4-29), served as a catalyst for Korean Americans to recognize their political and social identity

What is Los Angeles?

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After California and New York, this state has the largest Asian American population
What is Texas?
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This actress, comedian, and writer was born in Cambridge and named Vera Mindy Chokalingam
What is Mindy Kaling?
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This Vietnamese victory over the French in this 1956 battle inspired other anti-imperialist triumphs, like the Cuban and Algerian Revolutions
What is Dien Bien Phu?
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This country has one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity of rice in the world
What is Laos?
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This landmark Supreme Court Case upheld the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which forced Japanese Americans into internment camps during WWII.
What is Korematsu v United States?
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Filipino Americans are the largest Asian ethnic group in this state
What is Hawaii?
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This NBA player experienced an unprecedented rise to fame with the 2012 New York Knicks, and now plays for the Brooklyn Nets
Who is Jeremy Lin?
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This country, which gained its independence in 1949, was referred to as the Dutch East Indies

What is Indonesia?

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In 2013, at the age of 28, attorney Michelle Wu was elected to this city's city council, becoming the first Asian American woman to serve on it
What is Boston?
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The murder of this Chinese American engineer in 1982 is often considered as the beginning of a pan-ethnic Asian American movement
Who is Vincent Chin?
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This northern Massachusetts city has the highest population of Cambodian Americans
What is Lowell?
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Born in Honolulu to a Filipino mother and Puerto Rican father, Philip Gene-Hernandez is a popular American singer who goes by this stage name
Who is Bruno Mars?
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This first large-scale Afro-Asian conference held in April 1955 in Indonesia was a meeting of 29 Asian and African states (most of which were newly independent)
What is the Bandung Conference?
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This is the national language of the Phillipines
What is Tagalog?
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The Chinese Exclusion Act, which effectively banned Chinese immigration for 10 years, was passed in this year
What is 1882?
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This state in the Midwest has the second largest population of Hmong Americans
What is Minnesota?
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Chris Evans is Curtis Everett in this 2013 Korean sci-fi movie directed by Bong Joon-ho
What is Snowpiercer?
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In 1999, Portugal gave up the last colony in its overseas empire, when this peninsula, the longest permanent European settlement in Asia, reverted to China after 442 years of Portuguese rule
What is Macau?
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The racial incident at the Start House in 1982, which led to the establishment of the Asian American Center in 1983, involved pledges from this fraternity
What is Zeta Psi?
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In 1968 and 1969, students at San Francisco State University and University of California Berkley went on strike to demand this
What is the establishment of ethnic studies programs?
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According to the 2010 U.S. Census, this ethnic group is the 7th largest (after Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese Americans)
What is Pakistani Americans?
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These four actors are the only Asian Americans to host SNL in the show's history
Who are Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Aziz Ansari and Kumail Nanjiani?
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This party was established through anti-colonial, anti-imperialist pro-global working class and immigrant movement led by South Asians in the U.S. and Canada in the early 1900s
What is the Ghadar Party?
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Elaine Chao was the first Asian American woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, when she was appointed as Secretary of Labor by this president
Who is George W. Bush?