RuPaul is basically the first original Drag Queen…there is no other like her..she is the God..of drag queens..basically.. **Bow Down**

“you’re born naked and the rest is drag”-RuPaul

How does this relate to Asian/American Pop culture? Drag queens that have been on the show range in ethnicities..Some of the most known from the show are in fact Asian!

Raja Gemini is Indonesian and won a season of RuPauls Drag Race.

Jujubee is Laotian and had appeared on 2 seasons.

Ongina is Filipino and was on season 1

Manila Luzon is Filipino..can you tell by the name?? She appeared in season 3 as first runner up.

Here’s some education for yah!

First on the list…

1986 Challenger-I found out that Ellison Onizuka born June 24th, 1946, was a Japanese/American Astronaut who, unfortunately passed away, Jan. 28th, 1986,  while on mission on board of the spaceship Challenger. The spaceship had disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.

“Make your life count – and the world will be a better place because you tried.”-Ellison Onizuka

Second on the list…

Paull [sic] Shin was the first EVER Korean/American elected into  Washington States legislature as a representing Senator. He was born Sept. 27th, 1935; and had to resign due to his Alzheimers.

Third on the list…

First of all…who and what are the WWII Stragglers? World War II did not neatly end with Japan’s surrender on September 2, 1945. At its height the Japanese Empire was more than 20 million square miles of land and sea. Soldiers in isolated regions fought on for years after the surrender some unaware the war had ended, other refusing to believe. Some hide in the jungles alone, others fought in groups and continued to make attacks and conduct guerilla warfare.  These men were called Japanese Holdouts, or Stragglers and their stories are some of the most fascinating human interest stories of the 20th Century. Secondly, why am I giving you this background knowledge?

Well, Hiroo Onoda born March 19, 1922 , was an Imperial Japanese Army Intelligence officer who fought in World War 2 and did not surrender in 1945. In 1974, his former commander traveled from Japan to personally issue orders relieving him from duty. Onoda had spent almost 30 years holding out in the Philippines. He held the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army. Hiroo Onoda passed away January 16, 2014. He was the last of the WW2 stragglers to pass away.

Lastly, on the scavenger hunt list…

HIMYM?? That long cryptic abreviation stands for “How I Met Your Mother“…Whats the Asian/American Connection you ask? Earlier this week, CBS’s long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother—which resumed its ninth season on January 13—ran an episode titled “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra,” which told the story of how Marshall (Jason Segel) came to learn the art of slapping from three Kung Fu masters, in order to give Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) the most epic slap of his life. What was already a silly episode turned especially sour by the portrayal of these Kung Fu masters, played by show regulars in yellowface (Josh Radnor, Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders).

The creators of How I Met Your Mother apologized for an episode that depicted Asian characters as stereotypes. But one apology doesn’t solve the bigger issue of Asian portrayals on television.

Whats trending right now? #howimetyourracism

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/showbiz/how-i-met-your-mother-controversy/

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