"Vietnamese has joined Spanish, Chinese and Filipino as an official language of San Francisco. As a result, the city will be required to provide translated materials and services to Vietnamese residents...With 6,791 limited English proficiency Vietnamese speakers in San Francisco, Vietnamese is the fourth largest language population in the city, according to the San Francisco language diversity data dashboard."
"After The Markup first reported on how Ohlala regularly translated misleading far-right websites like The Gateway Pundit and Newsmax into Vietnamese, more than a dozen Vietnamese community members asked The Markup to dig further. They wanted to know why she was broadcasting in Vietnamese and why her videos were so heavily pro-Trump. Several community members also shared suspicions that she was a Russian agent..."
My friend is performing an awesome dance piece this weekend, co-created with their mom. And my other friend is doing the music!!!! Please support them and let's sell out all dates. I've only been staggered by Melissa's creations and I'm looking forward to being un-moored by this one. Asian-American dance at it's finest. #SanFrancisco #AAPI
Tickets and SF Chronicle write up below.
"The 17-minute documentary takes an intimate look at the unique sisterhood between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, Wang’s paternal and maternal grandmothers. The pair initially met because of Wang’s parents and took a particular liking to each other. They became close after the deaths of their husbands, and eventually they chose to live together."
"More than half of Asian New Yorkers were on the receiving end of race-related hate in 2023, and fewer than half of those people reported the incidents to anyone, according to a new survey published Thursday.
Fifty-four percent of respondents to the survey by The Asian American Foundation said they 'experienced either insults, harassments, threats, or physical attacks in the past 12 months,'...”