Monday, October 27, 2008

Welcome!

We know. Being an Asian couple is hard.

The modern Asian couple deals daily with the twin pressures of familial expectations and mainstream social stereotypes. We are #1 Asian sons and daughters, heirs to the family legacy, future professionals and entrepreneurs; we are also sexually fetishized/emasculated bodies, straight A graphic calculator programmers, button-down, play-by-the-rules employees, above-average candidates for unfulfilled middle management careers. In other words, we are, from both of our sides of our fractured identities, the product of other people’s fantasies — fantasies of the mitigated American dream: not fame, but stability; not fortune, but the comforting normality of the middle class.

That’s why we’ve put together Asian Couple Monthly, an essential guide to the best in asian-coupling, brought to you by the quintessential Asian couple. Please enjoy responsibly.

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