{"id":77632,"date":"2013-04-09T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77632"},"modified":"2013-04-13T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T14:43:50","slug":"asians-beginning-to-surface-in-action-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=77632","title":{"rendered":"Asians Beginning to Surface in Action Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the APA340 blog which explores issues related to diversity in the media, particularly in relation to representations of Asian Pacific Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Growing up as a kid, I was always an action sports enthusiast. In this time of adolescence I religiously watched motocross races, wakeboard competitions, snowboard competitions, and the X Games. . With the action sports market dominated by Caucasian athletes, I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realized the absence of minorities participating in these action sports exhibitions. I now know that Asian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, as well as other minorities, were symbolically annihilated from any of these events mainly these athletes were Caucasian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Until this year when watching the Winter X Games, (which was in Aspen, Colorado), is when I saw one of the first Asian action sports athletes to make a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/apa340.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/05\/asians-beginning-to-surface-in-action-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the APA340 blog which explores issues related to diversity in the media, particularly in relation to representations of Asian Pacific Americans. &#8220;Growing up as a kid, I was always an action sports enthusiast. In this time of adolescence I religiously watched motocross races, wakeboard competitions, snowboard competitions, and the X Games. . With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77879,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77632\/revisions\/77879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}