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HapaMama

Asian Fusion Family and Food

A blog by Grace Hwang Lynch

Grandfather Counts

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Learning Chinese is as easy as one, two, three — or yi, er, san — in Grandfather Counts, this week’s HapaMama Summer Reading pick.

Part Asian, 100% Boy

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Wesley Yang’s Paper Tigers essay has me thinking about how to raise happy, confident Hapa boys.

Asians and Fast Food: It’s Complicated

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Have you seen the recent study saying that Asian immigrants eat high fat food to fit in with mainstream America?

Is that really why? Yes. and No.

When I look back at my own childhood, the 1970s Midwest, McDonald’s was one of our main gateways to American food.

One Big Hapa Family

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Why do some Asian groups have such high intermarriage rates? HapaMama interviews filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns on his documentary which seeks to answer that question.