The prosecutor also said the pair, who met at police training school, regularly mocked Asian culture while working.
"Our focus is the Asian-American audience, and theirs is using Asian culture to create a mass-market channel, " he says.
Chewing tobacco is embedded in many aspects of South Asian culture and traditions.
But if East Asian culture is not a serious hindrance to technological creativity, why are East Asian scientists and engineers generally typecast as underachievers?
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The crowd is diverse, including people of South Asian descent, people with an interest in South Asian culture, and people just looking to party.
The museum's 10 thematic galleries explore traditional aspects of pan-Asian culture, the focus shifting between exquisite, subtly-lit artefacts from Southeast Asia, China, India, Sri Lanka and even Turkey.
Last year, for instance, IKEA touched off a controversy in Singapore when it changed its meatball recipe to make the product softer, according to Makansutra, an Asian food culture blog.
Asian pop culture began seeping into the West in the 1990s, with a stream of Japanese imports: "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, " Nintendo's Pokemon, "Iron Chef" and anime cartoons, notes Adam Ware, CEO of Mnet, a new U.S. cable channel featuring only Asian content.
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An effective remedy is to emphasize the teaching of Southeast Asian history and culture as well as languages.
Irna Qureshi, a writer specialising in British-Asian arts and culture, explains why British-born Asians are taking a gamble on Bollywood.
But if you expose yourself to food cultures, people who know how to do great things without meat - Middle Eastern food culture, Asian and Indian, you can eat really well without having meat in the diet.
Asian immigration was seen as an economic threat by some, sparking the demonization of Asian-Americans in pop culture.
Thayil is the first Indian to win the prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction "inspired by the South Asian region, people, culture and diaspora".
Like many an expat, I started a blog to communicate regularly with family and friends back home about my Asian adventures, observations about the culture, and my work and play on the Cantonese-speaking island.
Culture clashes with European and Asian shoppers keep overseas efforts spotty.
The people who frequent centres like this one are not so much clinging to their parents' and grandparents' ways as creating a new culture that is both pan-Asian and American.
Asian and South Asian filmmaking styles have made deep inroads into mainstream American pop culture.
Its Spanish-American colonial experience, invigorated by Malay, Chinese and indigenous influences, has produced an Asian variant of the rum-and-Coca-Cola culture.
He had married an Asian woman and stayed in the Orient (What better way to understand culture than to marry into it, and then live and work in it).
Perhaps even more so because I have been listening to the dialogue about how to make America more post-racial -- mostly as it pertains to black and white culture -- for so long that it never occurred to me that an Asian immigrant family might cry foul when their son fell in love with an all-American girl like me.
The Asian Civilisations Museum, located in the grand old Empress Place Building, houses galleries which explore culture, religion and civilisation from across Asia.
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