amerasian

An Amerasian originally meant a person born in Asia to a U.S. military father and an Asian mother. Several countries have significant populations of Amerasians, like Japan (where they are also known as hāfus), Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and, most notably, the Philippines, the last having had the largest US air and naval bases outside the US mainland.

Japan

- 玉城 デニー（たまき デニー、1959年10月13日 - ）は、日本の政治家、元タレント。自由党所属の衆議院議員（4期）、自由党幹事長兼国会対策委員長。元沖縄市議会議員（1期）。本名は玉城 康裕（たまき やすひろ）。Denny Tamaki (玉城デニー Tamaki Denī, born 13 October 1959) is a Japanese politician. He became the first Amerasian member of the Japanese House of Representatives in 2009,^[1] and is currently a member of the Liberal Party led by Ichirō Ozawa. Tamaki was born in Uruma, Okinawa,^[2] to an Okinawan waitress and a U.S. Marine father named William,^[3] who left Okinawa before Tamaki was born. He was born Dennis Tamaki but his mother changed his name to Yasuhiro Tamaki (玉城 康裕 Tamaki Yasuhiro); he later adopted an abbreviated version of his original name. Tamaki never met his father, and his mother remained single throughout his youth and destroyed most materials related to his father;^[1] Tamaki attempted to search for his father but was unsuccessful in locating him. He learned minimal English in his youth, but developed a love for American popular culture and was teased and bullied by classmates for his hazel eyes and reddish hair.

chinese

- Staple was born Jeff Ng, but chose the name Staple for himself and his brand as an ode to the foundational elements of life and the core products that we all need. “I wanted to make a brand that was about things that were already in your wardrobe – the essential bits,” he says. In the first week of operation his company logo was a bowl of rice, before he settled on the now iconic pigeon which has served as the brand mascot – and an emblem of downtown New York street culture – ever since. Its notoriety was aided, in no small part, by a breakout collaboration with Nike in 2005, which is largely cited as the jumping-off point for hyped sneaker culture as it currently exists. The story goes that crowds began to gather outside Staple’s now-closed Lower East Side store, Reed Space, four days before the launch of the Nike SB Dunk “Pigeon”, which he designed in grey, white, and orange to mimic the feathers of its nakesame. Come market day, the crowd had swollen to such a size that there was a riot which ultimately culminated in SWAT teams being alerted and NYPD officials escorting those lucky enough to score one of the 20 limited edition pairs home to safety. (“I was fearful at times,” Staple can be heard saying in a CBS News clip from the era.)