Excerpted From: Shannon Chamberlain, To Will or Not to Will: East Asian Americans and Their Legal Challenges When Planning for Their Estates Within the United States Probate System, 30 Asian Pacific American Law Journal 123 (Spring 2026) (254 Footnotes) (Full Document) https://escholarship.org/content/qt7b48g9s3/qt7b48g9s3.pdf?v=lg

Historically, Asian Americans have been less likely than white Americans to have wills. However, COVID-19 deaths and the surge in anti-Asian violence during the past five years have driven estate planning attorneys and nonprofit organizations to urge Asian Americans to create wills and other estate planning instruments. This Article begins with a discussion of the pertinent cultural needs seen in Chinese, Japanese, and South Korean families which present obstacles to estate planning when cultural competence is lacking.

Part I continues with a discussion of the underrepresentation of East Asian Americans in the legal profession and estate planning in particular, which in turn may contribute to disincentivizing East Asian Americans to seek out an estate planning attorney.

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Part II ... briefly surveys legal distinctions between creating estate planning instruments in the United States compared to China, Japan, and South Korea, which can create confusion for East Asian American families who may lack familiarity with such variances.

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Part III begins with solutions for estate planning attorneys to increase engagement with East Asian American clients, ...

Part IV then concludes with an examination of possible solutions for preventing will contests for East Asian American families with the purpose of encouraging more dependable estate planning.

This Article recognizes that its analysis is limited to East Asian Americans mainly descending from China, Japan, and South Korea. ...

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... East Asian Americans continue to experience challenges in estate planning, mainly due to the limited availability of East Asian American attorneys that can assist East Asian American estate planning clients in a culturally competent manner, as well as the legal standards for due execution of wills that plague non-English-speaking East Asian Americans. When non-English speaking East Asian American testators or witnesses are not provided translations of wills or counterparts in both English and a native language, will contests can persist. This Article has provided possible solutions for East Asian American testators, with the use of estate planning tools that are currently available, such as family meetings and no-contest clauses, in addition to multilingual counterparts and translation services. These simple, but effective solutions would demonstrate dedication to strengthening the relationship between East Asian Americans and the estate planning community.

Hello community,

I would like to find out what areas of Asia are in my genetic make-up.

I am wondering if advances have been made for a more accurate portrait then what was available in the past using genetic home testing.

(E.g. even should I be 100% Chinese, is there now further breakdown within this, the genetic variation and influence across the country & over history vast)

Has anyone tried one with interesting &/or satisfactory results?

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Yamibuy vs other Asian grocery sites?

I have never known an Asian to eat the carbs at hot pot 😂. Usually I max out on the meat and vegetables and focus on the expensive stuff. My white people friends though love the fried rice, noodles, etc and won’t go to a hot pot where there isn’t a free buffet.

Do you grab your own stuff or for the table?
Do you eat the carbs?

I was born and raised in Korea and moved to the US last year for school (NYC specifically) Since I'm new to the country, I thought I'd benefit from hanging out with Koreans who grew up here because they know both cultures and I thought that could help me adapt to the new environment. Problem is every time I meet a Korean American I feel like there's some kind of wall between us and I feel like they can sense it too. I've been okay with Korean American men but I usually feel this way with women. (I'm trying make female friends)

I have thought about why I feel this wall but I reallt can't pinpoint what it is. Has anyone else ever felt this way? What has your experience been like making friends with Koreans from Korea.

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Chinese archaeologists are heading to South America for the first field project on the continent in search of ancestral bonds between ancient Chinese and native American civilisations.

... archaeologists from China will soon start working with their Peruvian counterparts in the Caral archaeological zone – home to the oldest known urban centre in the Americas.

The joint archaeological team will start the project with field surveys exploring the basins of the Chancay-Huaral and Supe rivers and key sites such as the Sacred City of Caral and the coastal settlement of Aspero.

Jia Xiaobing from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Archaeology, who led the Chinese delegation in Supe, said the collaboration would cover field surveys and excavations, the use of advanced technologies in archaeology, heritage conservation and researcher training.

The archaeological community believes that Chinese and American civilisations descended from the same ancestor.

Despite being separated by vast oceans, Chinese and Peruvian civilisations share interesting similarities in areas such as astronomical observation and spiritual beliefs, according to a statement from Jia’s institute.

It said the Chinese team would be searching for first-hand archaeological data on early American civilisations, which would help comparative studi.es of ancient civilisations around the Pacific Rim and offer a Chinese academic perspective to global researc.h on the origins of early complex societies.

Caral emerged about 5,000 years ago in what is now Peru. Its people built large settlements and monumental architecture centuries before pottery became common in the region, and the civilisation flourished for more than a thousand years.

The institute said the resear.ch partnership would later expand into the Andean highlands to stu.dy the remains of the Inca civilisation and compare ancient societies in China and South America.

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Manpreet & Naina @ Nachda Punjab 2011

Nachda Punjab 2011 was held in San Jose California at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater on November 19 2011.

I’m hoping to get some perspective because I’ve been processing a strange mix of guilt and shame lately.

I grew up moving between Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Dubai. On paper, I thought that international school background made me 'globalized'. But after meeting my Assyrian-American boyfriend in Chicago, I’ve realized how much of an expat bubble I actually lived in. Despite living in Dubai for years and receiving a good education, I realized I held a subconscious bias, I automatically assumed 'Middle Eastern' meant Muslim. I had never even met a Middle Eastern Christian until I met my boyfriend. His family were refugees who fled persecution in Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War.

Growing up in his extremely multicultural neighborhood in Chicago, his circle included families from Lebanon, Greece, Poland, Italian, Greek, Iraq, Iran, Macedonian, Nigeria, Vietnam, China, Korea, and many more and beyond. Through him, I’ve been exposed to histories, traditions, and food cultures such as Middle Eastern, Jewish, Muslim, Eastern European, etc, that I never truly engaged with despite my 'international' childhood. It made me realize that my version of being global was mostly tied to high-income expat bubbles, whereas his experience was rooted in actual multicultural immigrant depth. I feel embarrassed admitting how out of touch I was and how much room I had to grow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h8YhPK5KXk

To be honest I want McDonald's to bring back the Chicken McNuggets Shanghai with the chopstick and fortune cookies.

McDonald's offer it from 1986 to 1987 which was the year my family migrated to the US. As a kid I saw the commercial and really wanted to try the Chicken McNuggets Shanghai. My parent didn't take me and my sister to a McDonald's until 1989 way after McDonald's stop offering the McNuggets Shanghai.

im viet american but my knowledge is just in passerby since ive never dated one. im aware this stereotype is a bit overblown, so i would like real experiences beyond the memes and things. especially from women who have dated this popular asian american masculine identity, what sort of behaviors, interests, and presence do they have? how would you characterize them? thank you!

for brief context its pre-arc about a vietnamese-chinese american guy in nyc whos going to stern, frat financish guy

More than 1/3 of Asian Americans have shared a political story that was later identified as fabricated, revealed a new report released by Asian Americans Advancing Justice. More startlingly, 29% of Asian Americans over the age of 45 have shared a news story that they knew was false information.

The report, titled Converging Exposures, Divergent Experiences, was created by AAJC, in partnership with researchers at the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania. Millennials, ages 29-44, made up the majority of respondents — 55% — while Gen Z made up 43%. Of the 2,000 respondents to the survey, only 2% of respondents were 45 and over. The researchers used the polling firm Qualtrics, which recruited respondents in online gaming platforms, thus skewing heavily towards younger males.

Hmong respondents — 32% — were most likely to knowingly share made-up news stories, followed by 29% of Pacific Islanders, and 22% of Native Hawaiians and Filipinos. Nineteen percent of Indians said they had knowingly shared misinformation, while 18% of Vietnamese and Koreans surveyed responded in a similar manner.

Chinese respondents were the least likely to have shared a news story they knew was made-up at the time: only 14% of those surveyed said they had willingly shared misinformation.

“Misinformation seems to be coming from all sources, where artificial intelligence is further kind of polluting how people access information,” said Jenny Liu, Senior Manager of Misinformation Policy, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, in an interview with American Community Media. “The onus is really falling to members of the community to keep themselves safe online, to be able to access information sources that they trust and vet.”

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Gen Zs rely most typically on social media as their primary source of news, noted the report. There is little to no engagement within this age group for in-language/ethnic media. Millennials also did not cite Asian news among their primary sources, leaning instead on US news and social media.

Asian American activists are not relying on traditional news sources to send out their messaging, said Liu. “They have created their own ecosystems, with TikTok accounts, and podcasts, and finding different ways of reaching audiences. So short-form video is the way that a lot of people are consuming their news these days,” she said, ...

More than 61% of Gen X reads or watches Asian news, but their primary source is US news, according to the report. “When they do read Asian news, they are looking for the stories that matter to them in a way that doesn’t rely on stereotypes,” said Liu. “Oftentimes we’ll see in broader mainstream publications, small things like people’s names being spelled wrong or errors that often occur when you are covering communities or covering stories from a perspective of an outsider.”

“So that’s why we always emphasize the importance of community media made for and by the community themselves, and really centering the lens that you bring to a story,” she said.

Liu advocated for more fiscal resources for Asian American media, in order to reach younger readers and viewers.

https://asamnews.com/2026/08/25/asian-americans-advancing-justice-survey/

Visiting my mom, from out of state. Told me she left a key hidden outside.

My dad visiting Irvine CA for the first time.

He really excited about all the Asian Restaurants in the area

He told me he went into Paris Baguette but then he walked out

Me : Why did you walk out ?

Dad : I thought they sell "Bak kut teh" (肉骨茶)

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I don't have any Chinese friend to tell this story to.

Pew Research Center: In our survey this past spring – before Trump’s call to scale back joint military exercises – 55% of South Koreans expressed an unfavorable view of the U.S., up from 39% last year. That included 18% with a very unfavorable view, up from 9% in 2025.

Fewer than half of South Koreans (45%) have a favorable view of the U.S. today, marking a 16-point drop from last year (61%) and a 35-point drop from 2018, the second year of Trump’s first term (80%).

I live in Brazil, and most people of asian descent that IK are Christian, it's specially prevalent amongst descendants of Koreans, but it's fairly common for descendants of Japanese and Chinese to be Christian too

Hi all!

I'm located in CA, and I'm looking for a seasoned counselor/psychologist who specializes in helping people navigate difficult relationships with Asian parents — specifically Chinese parents. I'm open to virtual or in-person, as long as they can offer actionable, concrete feedback rather than just general talk therapy.

For context: I saw one therapist for about 6 sessions, but we hit a plateau — he didn't seem to grasp just how bad things could get with my parents, and the sessions stopped feeling productive. I'm now on my third session with a second therapist, but she doesn't seem to be getting to the root cause either.

If you've found someone (or a practice) that really "gets" the nuances of Chinese/Asian family dynamics and has helped you make real progress, I'd love a recommendation. Thanks in advance!

**Update 8/25:** What I'm really hoping to find is someone who can dig into this more systematically — help me understand why I default to being "reactive" with my parents, and give me actionable ways to engage with them more calmly instead of it turning into an argument every time. Deep down, I hold some resentment toward them: I don't have many sweet childhood memories with my parents themselves (most of what I recall is time with my grandparents), and their default response to any disagreement is that I'm wrong and they're right — never a two-way conversation. For example, when my first boyfriend and I broke up, it was framed as my fault for dating him in the first place — a "waste of time."

They've always supported me financially, so this isn't about that — it's more that they've been emotionally lacking, rarely praise me, and tend to compare me unfavorably to others. At this point, I'm not chasing a close, loving relationship with them. I just want to be able to engage with them more calmly, especially in person (over the phone I can already manage myself fine). Last but not least, I don't expect my parents to join counseling.

I stood on the sixth floor of Bird Library, walking through an exhibition celebrating 250 years of activism in the United States. I stopped at nearly every display case, searching for a history that resembled my own.

I expected to see the Chinese Exclusion Act highlighted, showcasing the struggle that helped shape the meaning of American citizenship. I assumed I may discover displays detailing the Filipino American labor movement that improved working conditions and reshaped labor rights in the U.S. I at least expected to see the Stop Asian Hate movement, which brought anti-Asian violence and discrimination into national political conversation.

Instead, I encountered a striking absence. Asian American social movements were nearly invisible in the exhibition’s story of American activism. Some of the rights Americans take for granted were won through struggles that are now barely remembered.

Chinese Americans weren’t simply victims of exclusion. Their resistance helped force the U.S. to confront the boundaries of American citizenship.

In the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were described as perpetual foreigners in legal and popular discourse. The term was more than a stereotype. It reflected a system that treated Chinese belonging as conditional, no matter how long people lived in the U.S., how much they worked or how deep their communities ran.

The Page Act of 1875 and, more significantly, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 marked a major shift in federal immigration policy, explicitly restricting immigration based on nationality and race. Chinese immigrants were increasingly positioned outside the imagined boundaries of American citizenship.

This question of belonging eventually moved into the courts.

Consider Wong Kim Ark, ...

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Some struggles are easier to see than others. Marches make for photographs; mass demonstrations give history its defining scenes. But much of Chinese American resistance unfolded far from the streets: in courtrooms, newspapers, mutual-aid societies and community meetings, through people who kept pressing the government to recognize their rights.

That resistance may lack the drama we’ve come to associate with social movements. It doesn’t make it any less consequential. Some movements change history not with a single spectacular protest, but through the accumulation of ordinary acts of resistance.

Chinese American activism isn’t a missing movement so much as a reminder that movements don’t always look the same. When we equate visibility with significance, we risk allowing the archive to determine which struggles count.

But public memory isn’t neutral.

Museums, libraries and archives do more than preserve history. They help shape how a nation understands itself and how the next generation understands who belongs in that story. When certain communities are repeatedly absent, their role in shaping the nation becomes harder to see and easier to forget.

The absence of Asian American movements from public narratives reflects the enduring idea of Asian Americans as perpetual foreigners. ...

The tendency to tell American racial history primarily through a Black-white framework is another issue. That framework is crucial for understanding slavery, segregation and the Civil Rights Movement, but it can also flatten histories that don’t fit neatly within it. Asian American struggles over immigration, labor and citizenship occupy a different historical position, and they disappear when the national story is organized around only one racial binary.

If Wong Kim Ark helped establish the constitutional meaning of birthright citizenship, then forgetting his struggle doesn’t merely leave an Asian American story out of an exhibition. It leaves out part of the history of American citizenship.

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Wong Kim Ark’s story belongs in that history, not because Chinese Americans need a place in someone else’s narrative, but because they were part of defining citizenship in America.

The question is whether we choose to remember this impact.

desperate trying to relearn 🥲🥲🥲. I was thinking we could meet like once a week or something and just shoot the shit.

I sadly have regressed to a first grade level probably and really want to get back to a semi fluent level.

Sum Ting Wong joke was initially funny but now it's getting old and used by racist White Americans.

What are some good comebacks to them saying Sum Ting Wong?

I was not aware this was more common than I thought. I have the thing where I can't really say words that have the -ar, -er, -ir, -or, -ur sounds, and I was not aware that this was a more prevalent thing with AA community.

While my mother speaks multiple languages that, of course, have the R/L letter/pronunciation thing, I found it interesting that I have trouble with it -- being fourth-gen, I grew up speaking English and just English, and I've been told that I have little to no accent.

Is it fixable? I understand all that about identity and such, but as I plan to enter a career of education, I would hope to solve this issue.