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Asians: The Silent Minority

Event Interactive 2010
Format Panel
Organizer Glenda Bautista Kearny Street Workshop
Description Stereotypically known to blend into the background both personally and professionally, a significant amount of web professionals around the world are of Asian descent. How do they reconcile identity given one's history, heritage and contemporary culture? Given linguistic and cultural divides? While marketers and businesses perceive Asians as a target market, an overall sense of Asian unity has waned across the world for centuries. This panel attempts to explore the Asian web community's barriers and backgrounds, and collectively uncover intercultural nuances in both online and offline spaces. And also: "Why does everyone want to do business in China so bad?"
Questions
Answered
  1. How is the web changing linguistic barriers between an array of Asian cultures and the ways in which the community interacts interculturally both personally, and professionally?
  2. How do those of Asian descent reconcile the stereotype of xenophobia along with developing online identities and communities?
  3. How has the "Model Minority" stereotype hurt or helped you in your career or personal life?
  4. How does a cultural tendency towards submissiveness or passivity affect our professional relationships with colleagues?
  5. What are the positive and negative affects regarding the disclosure of race while working within a medium such as the web, that does not require such disclosure? (e.g. "Stuff White People Like")
  6. How does a sense of nationalism for one's culture often clash with the overall sense of the Asian community?
  7. How do intercultural inferiority complexes interfere with the ability to support those of Asian descent other than your own cultural background?
  8. What taking points are applicable to Asians, from other non-Asian cultures regarding the online identity or communities? (e.g. "Blogging While Back", Latinos in media)
  9. Why do companies want to do business in China so badly when there are other countries in Asia?
  10. How is the Asian community marketed to on the web, and how do some of these various approaches work or not work?
Level Beginner
Category Community / Online Community, International, Other / Out There, Self-Help / Self-Improvement, Social Issues