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Asian Americans and Hip Hop Dance: The Choreo Culture
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Asian Americans and Hip Hop Dance: The Choreo Culture

For the past couple decades, young Asian Americans have built a culture within their communities and a sense of belonging through hip hop dance. Today, dance has slowly started to become something of a common hobby just like beloved sports: basketball and football. Many of these teams formed through a school campus and the school year would normally act as the dance season amongst these social groups and communities. But how did this all come to fruition?

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A Tale of Two Tabos: What Assimilation Looks Like As a 2nd Generation Filipino-American
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A Tale of Two Tabos: What Assimilation Looks Like As a 2nd Generation Filipino-American

Growing up with immigrant parents can be one of the most interesting yet odd experiences. From my own life, my parents would weave in Tagalog with their English anytime there wasn’t an English word that translated well. The perfect, yet somewhat strange example, is the tabo. I’ve never had so much difficulty explaining something from the Philippines more than the tabo.

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