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The name from the project came from the husband and partner of Nancy Wang, a psychotherapist as well as an ASIA member and a founder of Eth-Noh-TEC, Robert Kukuchi-Yngoho, who came up with ‘Strong Like Bamboo.’ “There’s an ancient anecdote that a single bamboo piece can be bent and eventually broken,” said Kukuchi-Yngoho. “But when you put together many bamboos, they are strong like iron. As Asian Americans that’s who we are as a community.” | By Emil Guillermo During the pandemic, I was in a group of Asian American storytellers based in the Bay Area on a weekly Zoom call when ...

American immigrant family in a way that we have not seen before. it's super popular, it's hot box office hit, as well as oscar winner. >> nancy, i do want to note, aapi month coincides with mental health awareness. we are already dealing with a rise of racism de directed towards the aapi community, talk to us more about how you feel like the winds, like michelle yeoh, how those winds will be able to lift a community out of a feeling of oppression and out of a feeling of being under attack. >> the attacks are coming from outside the community, it's really important to have those acclimate, not ...

They will want to see themselves represented on screen. they watch on screaming, we know the broad cross shows they have streaming options as well, i think they would be tuning into broadcasts more if they saw that the shoes actually looked like them. >> nancy, earlier this week, something you tweeted stood out to me, you had a representation matters moment but on a panel you are, on a deal with life from 1970 -- about the vietnam war called full metal jacket. that movie and several other films have portrayed a very tiled troops of eight asian women as a stereotypical sex worker. talk to us ab...

Something the two games at, sending to exist for the white male gaze. >> nancy, we talked about representation matters, and obviously, we are in visual culture, we see things, we want to be those things. i think behind the camera is important. your report also noted, of the top 1300 films from 2007 to 2019, there were only 3.5% were api directors. 2.5% producers. 3.3% of calf casting directors. at 2.9 directors i've creatives. do you think there could be a change in front of the camera, that there are significant moves made behind the camera? >> absolutely. we have authentic storytelling that ...

Compelling, i want people to access it. >> yeah, you can go to the usc adamsburg, it's a report that you can download for free. as well as my website, nancy w.y. e and.com. >> doctor nancy wang yuen, thank you so much for joining us, we appreciate you being here. >> thank you so much, michelle. >> thank you all for joining me this morning. i will be back tomorrow when we are joined by brett cross. his son was killed in the evil the massacre of robb elementary, to talk about how his family is still in the fight for medium gun reform, it has been almost a year. that is tomorrow at 8 am. remember...