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THE FACES OF THE FACES OF ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS IN THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS IN THE

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ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE CELEBRATION 2009HERITAGE CELEBRATION 2009

This slideshow celebrates This slideshow celebrates Americans of Asian and Pacific Island Americans of Asian and Pacific Island

descent in observance of descent in observance of Asian Pacific American Asian Pacific American

Heritage Month Heritage Month at OCC.at OCC.

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Maya Kassandra Soetoro-Ng

Indonesian-Indonesian-

AmericanAmerican

maternal half-maternal half-sister of Barack sister of Barack Obama: high Obama: high school history school history teacher, teacher, university university instructor, instructor, writerwriter

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Hosanna Kabakoro

Fijian Miss Idaho Teen USA 2010

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Lucy Liu, Actress, Chinese American

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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian American Astrophysicist

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Michelle Wie, Korean AmericanMichelle Wie, Korean AmericanProfessional GolferProfessional Golfer

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Ann Curry, TV News Reporter, of Japanese, French, German, Irish, Scottish descent

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, wrestler, entertainer, of African-American, Samoan-American heritage

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NORMAN YOSHIO MINETASecretary of Transportation under George W. Bush (Japanese American)

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African-American & Filipino heritage

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DON HODON HO

ENTERTAINER - ENTERTAINER -

OF HAWAIIAN, OF HAWAIIAN,

CHINESE, CHINESE,

PORTUGUESE, PORTUGUESE,

GERMAN & GERMAN &

DUTCH DUTCH

ANCESTRYANCESTRY

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GARY LOCKE

A Democrat, Locke was the nation's first governor (Washington state) of Chinese ancestry.

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MICHELLE KWAN

Chinese-American

OLYMPICFIGURE SKATER

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CIBO MATTO

Made up of two Made up of two Japanese-born Japanese-born musicians, Yuka musicians, Yuka Honda and Miho Honda and Miho Hatori, the hip Hatori, the hip band Cibo Matto band Cibo Matto means “food means “food madness” in madness” in ItalianItalian

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RON DARLING Hawaiian-born pitcher for the New York Mets

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Daniel Kahikina Akaka

A Democrat, A Democrat, Akaka is the first Akaka is the first senator of native senator of native Hawaiian ancestry Hawaiian ancestry and is the only and is the only senator of senator of Chinese ancestry.Chinese ancestry.

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Vera Wang, Fashion Designer of Chinese descent

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Free Burma Day, San Francisco

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Kristi YamaguchiFigure Skater, Olympic Champion (1992)

(Japanese American)

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Tamla OCC Student(Burmese American)

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28th Asian American Festival (2007)Houston, Texas

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Cambodian American ParadeSan Francisco

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John MaedaGraphic Designer & Computer Scientist

(Japanese American)

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Kurt SuzukiCatcher, Oakland Athletics

(Japanese American)

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Yulan OCC Student

(Chinese American)

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Michio KakuTheoretical Physicist (String Theory)

(Japanese American)

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Most Sanzida OCC Student (Bengali American)

With Dr. Mark Ende

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Michelle Malkin Commentator and Blogger

(Filipino American)

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Donald Allan Figueroa Comic Book Artist and Toy Designer

(Filipino American)

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Koran Cherty

CNN Anchor

(Nepalese American)

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Jason Bartlett Tampa Bay Rays (Filipino American)

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Caterina Fake Co-Founder, Flickr.com (Filipino American)

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Retired Rear Admiral Eleanor Mariano, MDPhysician of Pres. Reagan, Bush Sr. &

Clinton (Filipino American)

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Hui Chen OCC International Office

(Chinese American)

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Tamlyn TomitaActress

The Joy Luck Club, The Karate Kid, Part II. (Filipino American)

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Johnny DamonNew York Yankees (Thai American)

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Maggie QFashion Designer

(Vietnamese American)

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Dr. An WangFounder of Wang Laboratories

(Chinese American)  

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Meggy Park OCC International Student Counselor

(Korean American)

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Ang LeeFilm Director & Writer(Taiwanese American)

The Wedding Banquet Green Card Sense and Sensibility The Ice Storm Ride With the Devil Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Brokeback Mountain

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Rebecca, OCC Student(Chinese American)& Peter (OCC Tutor)

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Neil Horikoshi, President & Executive Director Asian Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (Japanese American)

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Sandra Oh

Actress

(Korean American)

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Did you know that…

Greg Louganis Olympic Gold Metalist

andand

Tiger Woods Professional Golfer …are both of Asian descent?

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Johnnie Morton, NFL Football Player…

…is also of Asian descent.

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Zubin Mehta

Musician, Conductor

(Indian American)

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The Honorable Elaine L. ChaoFormer Secretary of Labor

(Taiwanese American)

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Nora JonesSinger(Asian

Descent)

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Jim Cho Senior Manager of Asian Marketing &

Community Relations, Anheuser-Busch Inc.(Chinese American)

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Etuini Haloti Ngata: NFL athlete of Tongan ancestry

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Margaret Cho, Comedienne

(Chinese American)

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Keanu ReevesActor

(Chinese, English, and

Hawaiian descent)

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Sant ChatwalPresident and CEO of Hampshire Hotels

& Resorts (Indian American)

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Jeanette Lee Pool Pro

(Korean American)

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Connie Chen Connie Chen Founder and President of Founder and President of American Asian Cultural American Asian Cultural

FoundationFoundation(Chinese American)(Chinese American)

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Bobby JindalGovernor of Louisiana

(Indian American)

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Andrea Jung CEO of Avon

(Chinese American)

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Sabeer BhatiaCo-founder of Hotmail

(Indian American)

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Chloe DaoFashion Designer

(Vietnamese American)

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Mohini BhardwajOlympic Gymnastic Medalist(Indian American)

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Amar Bose Physicist and Founder of Bose

Corp.(Bengali American)

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Maya Lin Architect of Vietnam War Memorial

(Chinese American)

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Brandon Chillar Professional American Football Player

(Indian American)

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Lu Zheng & Rebecca OCC Students

(both Chinese Americans)

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ACTOR KAL PENNINDIAN-AMERICAN

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Resources1. http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/anwang.htm2. http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1W1GGLG_en&q=ANG+LEE3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Oh4. http://www.nndb.com/people/705/000025630/ 5. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://bleacherreport.com/images_root/

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Resources, cont.26. http://afraidofedhochuli.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-mlb-mock-draft.html27. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/images/chetry.kiran.jpg28. http://www.bumpershine.com/wp-images/posts/sedaka_50.jpg29. http://www.ece.osu.edu/~cruz/30. http://www.seibertron.com/images/news/people_donfigueroa.jpg31. http://api.ning.com/files/55LNYjkq2tR2-gX1PcpV1-uotiT*fI9W9piXlmvBwhg_/Dianne2305.jpg32. http://www.focusdep.com/images/Michelle_Malkin_1175782934040524.jpg33. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake34. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Mariano35. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Scott36. http://www.onlythebravemovie.com/cast.php?tamlyn_tomita37. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy_Duckworth38. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Damon39. http://images.askmen.com/galleries/actress/maggie-q/pictures/maggie-q-picture-1.jpg40. http://singer.myanmarcelebrity.com/2009/01/burmese-american-singer-songwriter.html41. http://suzannaleaassociates.com/author_list.aspx42. http://hawthornehomes.blogspot.com/43. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haloti_Ngata44. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Wang45. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Kwan46. http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/04/08/amd_kal_penn_house.jpg

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