We’re an important part of Mercer Island and the Eastside. If you’re an employee at Amazon or Microsoft, you work with many of us. Many of us take pride in the epicanthic eye folds or dark skin and hair we were born with. We embrace our American home and honor the language, culture and traditions of our ancestry.
Asian girls are submissive. They have bound feet and aren’t allowed to speak unless spoken to. Asian girls are China dolls, geishas and sexual objects who do as they’re told.
Yeah, right.
If these stereotypes are all people know of Asian females, they obviously have yet to meet the headstrong Princess Emmajin, the horseback riding 16-year-old who longs to be a warrior in her grandfather’s army. Emmajin is a lead character in the new young-adult fiction book, “Daughter of Xanadu,” published by a division of Random House.
