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5 unusual facts about Asian culture


Asian Animation Film Festival

By presenting films that are either related to the topics of Asian culture or involving an artist of Asian descent, AAFF hopes to introduce audiences to a broader range of Asian animation while allowing artists to express the vast and diverse Pan-Asian experience.

Ilona Harima

Already at an early age she was deeply interested in Asian culture and Asian art.

In Praise of Shadows

Comparisons of light with darkness are used to contrast Western and Asian cultures.

Scott Shaw

Shaw has also written numerous articles and several books on Zen Buddhism, Yoga, Eastern Religion and Asian culture.

Shuhei Fujioka

Also, other product lines were introduced under the Precious Memory brand that touched on common Asian cultures, like the Chinese zodiacs.


Frederick Paul Keppel

Before the Association of American Colleges and Universities, in 1930, he insisted upon the importance to the United States of knowledge of Asian culture, and upon the necessity of including Asian languages in American curricula.


see also

Making Stars

The short contains one of the earliest clear examples of the oriental riff that would become popular as a leitmotif for Asian culture following the release of the 1974 song Kung Fu Fighting.