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...funding and had to scavenge for furniture to outfit the place. She now has backing from a few private donors as well as the international NGO Oxfam, but times are still lean. An array of colorful drapes liven up the space, while a staff of local Chinese and South Asian volunteers busy about. Wong is a blur of energy and enthusiasm, rattling off anecdotes from her years of activism. Like when she led dozens of South Asian youth to a school that had refused them admittance because of their poor Chinese and got them enrolled. Or when, in order...
...financial hub, Hong Kong draws in tens of thousands of well-heeled Western expats as well as a modicum of Asian professionals who indulge in the fine dining and luxury malls ubiquitous in Asia's self-professed "world city." But affluent people run up against prejudice too, if they are dark-skinned. Stories of everyday discrimination are legion and often banal in their predictability: from being denied service in a bar or being unable to lease an apartment of one's choice and means. Hong Kong police practice racial profiling, routinely checking IDs of South Asians and sometimes frisking them...
...Wong admits that she herself has had to learn much over the years - in the beginning she could only tell Nepalis apart from other South Asians because they were "Tibetan-looking." Now, she relishes South Asian cooking, swathes herself in flashy Indian scarves and is sought after by the elders of a host of ethnic-minority associations. Wong runs clinics with poor South Asian households, instructing them on everything from how to fill out official forms to how to stand up to bullying police officers ("Speak in a British accent," she advises). She has lectured at police academies "that...
Adding to the intensity was the ongoing cultural interest that Lin has garnered as an Asian-American. Considering the vastly diverse attendance and the number of T-shirts reading “The Jeremy Lin Experience,” it appeared that Lin singlehandedly altered the Bronco basketball experience. While the Taiwanese standout tried to keep his focus on the court, Lin’s teammates ensured that the star took note of the crowd’s heavily-skewed demographic...
...wasn’t really paying attention to [the number of Asian supporters], but when I went into the locker room my teammates told me it looked like Hong Kong,” Lin deadpanned...