by Sparkle Insights | Jan 7, 2023 | Asian American, Culture, DEI, Multicultural Marketing, Popular Culture
By Brittany Chiu American Girl, the doll maker, recently just released their “Girl of the Year” for 2023. Her name is Kavi Sharma, short for Kavika. As you might have guessed from the name, Kavi is Desi. She’s from New Jersey and loves to sing...
by Sparkle Insights | Nov 27, 2022 | Asian American, Culture, DEI, ERG, Multicultural Marketing
By Brittany Chiu I have a love-hate relationship with my name—Brittany. My father said that he liked the name for what it is, but I always suspected that it was because my older cousin is named Tiffany. I don’t think there is any name out there in the world...
by Sparkle Insights | Nov 2, 2021 | African American, Asian American
By Caitlyn Chun The Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Stop Asian Hate (SAH) movements not only underscore the complicated issue of racial relations in the US, the ingrained systematic racism but also inter-group bias and tensions between Asians and Blacks. From the LA...
by Sparkle Insights | Apr 20, 2020 | African American, Asian American, Blog, Hispanic, Multicultural Marketing
By Roben Allong, Patricia Lopez, Iris Yim COVID-19 has been a jarring wakeup call. While the idea of traditional research on ethnic consumers and their disparate COVID-19 experiences is certainly not a groundbreaking proposition, what clearly will be evident...
by Sparkle Insights | Dec 3, 2017 | Asian American, Blog, Multicultural Marketing
News coverage of this November elections has focused on how Democrats fared in the first tests of Trump’s impact. Something else close to home also caught my attention. Hongbin Gu, a UNC associate professor and immigrant from China, was elected as a Chapel Hill...