How Historic Filipinotown became 'HiFi'
Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles has a cool new nickname, reports Frank Shyong in the Los Angeles Times.You've heard of SoHo in New York and SoMa in San Francisco. Now we have HiFi in Los Angeles.
Historic Filipinotown was named the fifth coolest neighborhood in the world by Time Out magazine. And lately the neighborhood has started to go by a new name: HiFi.
Place names often set our expectations about neighborhoods, especially ethnic neighborhoods. We hear Koreatown, Thai Town, and Little Armenia and we expect a neighborhood in which a majority of residents are people of that background, engaged daily in the cultural practices of their homelands, voluntarily clustering in that neighborhood because of the comforts of community.
Names, especially new ones like HiFi, can also signal change. And Historic Filipinotown is changing.
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| GINA ROSALES |
How One Ex-Google Employee Is Creating More Opportunities For Filipino Women
If you are seeking a conference in your field or industry, there are a thousand and one to choose from. There are conferences for virtually every subject area you can imagine.
Gina Rosales is a Filipino and Japanese American, and former Google employee who realized that as a budding female entrepreneur of color, there needed to be more conferences that made her feel supported and encouraged and that provided women of color the career guidance that is necessary to create a thriving business.
Gina Rosales is a Filipino and Japanese American, and former Google employee who realized that as a budding female entrepreneur of color, there needed to be more conferences that made her feel supported and encouraged and that provided women of color the career guidance that is necessary to create a thriving business.
With this idea in mind, Gina launched the Entrepinays Summit, which is “a weekend gathering of pinay entrepreneurs filled with panels, interactive workshops, mentoring, and meaningful connections.” Gina sat down with Forbes to discuss her career trajectory, why she started the Entrepinays Summit and how entrepreneurship can be fostered through sisterhood.
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US CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION
Immigrant children sit inside cages in the Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, after being taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents. |
Opinion: The immigration crisis and the racism driving it have roots in Hitler’s ‘bible’
Britain, Poland, Italy, the United States. Around the world, countries once proud of welcoming immigrants seem determined to find ever more devious ways to keep them out.
Are these signs of a newly ascendant nationalism? Or the last gasps of existential fear?The worldwide immigration crisis — and the racism apparently driving it — can trace its roots in part to a century-old book, Madison Grant’s “The Passing of the Great Race,” according to Clyde W. Ford's oped in the Los Angeles Times.
In publishing a centenary edition of the 1916 work, white nationalist Ostara Press praised the book as a “call to American whites to counter the dangers both from non-white and non-north Western European immigration.” Grant proposed a “Nordic race,” loosely centered in Scandinavia, as principally responsible for human social and cultural development. He feared immigration and intermarriage would dilute this race, dooming it to extinction.
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