Heritage Month
This is the month Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated.
What is May? The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to mark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese immigrants.
This internationally recognized civil rights leader who advocates for HIV/AIDS awareness and care, LGBT equality, and social justice was appointed by President Barak Obama in 2013 to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.
Who is Cecilia Chung.
Born to an Indian mother and African-American father, this former California’s attorney general became the first female vice president and the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history.
Who is Kamala Harris.
He is known as "the Awakened One". Hint: think Religion.
Who is Buddha? Buddha was a sage, or wise man, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE.
The Japanese consume this percentage of calories per day compared with someone from the U.S.
(A): 25% less calories
(B): 50% less calories
(C): They consume the same amount
What is 25% less? People in Asian countries tend to have lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and obesity than Americans, and they typically live longer, too. Researchers suspect that owes largely to their diet: a low-fat, healthy eating style that emphasizes rice, vegetables, fresh fruit, and fish, with very little red meat.
Which president expanded Asian Pacific American Heritage Month to a month long celebration? A. President George HW Bush in 1990 B. President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 C. President Jimmy Carter in 1978
Who is President George H.W. Bush?
This Japanese American civil rights activist was a leading figure of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, an ad hoc group who protested the drafting of Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
Who is Frank Seishi Emi.
She enlisted in the Coast Guard to “avenge the death of her late husband,” a Navy PT boat crewman killed at Corregidor.
Who is Florence Smith Finch? She was the first U.S Coast Guard Women's Reserve member to receive the Asian-Pacific Campaign ribbon in recognition of her service in the Philippines. At the end of the war, she was awarded the civilian U.S. Medal of Freedom.
This fish represents perseverance and worldly advancement which is often depicted in American culture by tattoos. This fish is also found in garden ponds.
What is the Koi Fish? You'd recognize these fish- some of the major colors are white, black, red, yellow, blue, and cream.
Some animals are revered in India for their resemblance of Hindu deities. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
(A): Monkey
(B): Cow
(C): Crane
(D): Elephant
(E): Tiger
What is the Crane?
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month celebrated the arrival of the first group of immigrants from this country.
What is Japan. May is the month when the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the U.S. in 1843.
This Native Hawaiian aloha ʻāina activist, musician and hero from Kalamaʻula Molokai developed many ideas of Hawaiian Sovereignty that continue to inspire today in the fight to develop and maintain Native Hawaiian access rights.
Who is George Jarrett Helm Jr.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1941. He was given the nickname “Cesar” because his sergeant could not pronounce his name.
Who is Shizuya Hayashi? In 1942, Hayashi and 1,400 other Nisei soldiers were sent to Camp McCoy, where they formed the 100th Infantry Battalion, the first mainly Japanese-American combat unit in the history of the U.S. Army.
These are small tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length as traditional eating utensils.
What are chopsticks? Chopsticks were first used by the Chinese and later spread to the neighboring countries of Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Bhutan, Indonesia, Burma, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan.
This symbol is prominently featured on the Japanese national flag.
What is the Red Sun?
President Barack Obama is from this Pacific Island.
What is Hawaii? May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian-Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands.
This Congresswoman is the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Pramila Jayapal.
He was promoted to Admiral in 2013 and assumed command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Who is Harry Harris Jr.? He is the first Asian American to head the U.S. Pacific Fleet, leading the same office from which Admiral Chester Nimitz led the Navy against the Japanese during World War II. Harris was born in Japan and raised in Tennessee and Florida
This is Japan's most popular spectator sport.
What is baseball? Baseball had become such a significant part of Japanese culture that when a great many of the Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps during World War II they built baseball diamonds. For many, baseball served as a saving grace during their time in the "war relocation camps".
The Chinese language has this many characters:
(A): 1,000
(B): 20,000
(C): 42,000
What is 42,000 characters?
The month of May also marks the anniversary of the completion of THIS RAILROAD in 1869, which was constructed by workers who were majority Chinese immigrants.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad? In 1862, the Pacific Railroad Act chartered the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies, and tasked them with building a transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west.
Born in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II and a personal assistant to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this activist was also one of the founders of Gay Liberation Front/Philadelphia and served as an openly gay delegate to the Black Panther Convention that endorsed the gay liberation struggle.
Who is Kiyoshi Kuromiya.
In 2015, an Indian American, was named the new Executive Director for Regions and Center Operations at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Who is Ravi Chaudhary? As second in command to the Deputy Assistant Administrator, he is also responsible for providing Department of Transportation and FAA-wide services in the areas of operations, safety, policy, corporate and congressional outreach, emergency readiness, facilities management, and centralized support for the National Aerospace System.
In 1942, at the start of THIS WAR, the Japanese Internment Camps were created to force relocation and incarceration of nearly 120,000 people in the united States with Japanese ancestry.
What is World War II?
This is the first person to be served at the Asian family table.
What is the elders?