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Speak Up! Be Heard!
Outspoken is now live on azntv.com! Outspoken is a community forum for discussions of current events, lifestyle and cultural issues affecting the Asian American community. Get a take on the issues from two different perspectives, one from a student journalist and the other from an Asian American poet. We also invite you to submit your own thoughts and opinions! A new topic will be discussed each week. The topics of the week are Western/Eastern Influence and Neo vs. Traditional Communication, and are discussed by journalism student Lena Wong and Asian American poets Ishle Park and Beau Sia. Upcoming topics for December include Consumerism.


Lena Wong on Western/Eastern Influence Yet, it is, of course, hard to argue that the influence has purely been from the East to the West. Aside from the fact that the relative success of emerging industries has been complimented for creating blockbusters that could pass for Hollywood films (which in itself is a loaded statement), many American films make it to the top of box office charts in foreign countries… [more]

Ishle Park on Western/Eastern Influence It’s no secret that Western colonization is still in full effect today, dictating what is fashionable, what is beautiful, what is “cool”, what is “in”. And yes, financially and culturally, we are stuffing a lot of our own processed food & images down third world throats on a daily basis. Our influence is huge, and somewhat disturbing. Aigu. That’s the truth, and the truth sometimes hurts… [more]

Lena Wong on Neo vs. Traditional Communication We are a generation of screens and machines, of text messages and instant messages. We have simultaneously been called the MySpace Generation, the Facebook Generation, and Generation Y2K. As products of the technological revolution and Web 2.0 social networking, we’ve become accustomed to having the world seemingly at our fingertips with no one person more than one click away… [more]

Beau Sia on Neo vs. Traditional Communication is how we choose to interface a problem? i guess. shortage of coherent essays, eh? people too afraid to take a random shot in the dark at a bar? thailand has more dirt and bugs than it does on the telly? the world, with all its various fences and long range signals changing things more than just in the marketplace? how deep is the shift of exponential technological advancement? probably fairly deep, i suppose. non-confrontational, are we?… [more]


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