OCA – Orange County Chapter

Tuesday, August 29, 7:30 pm – 9 pm
OCA-OC Coffee Talk: Stereotypical Asian American Careers

Tea Station – Irvine Culver
15333 Culver Dr.
Irvine, CA 92604
Restaurant Phone: 949-653-9989
Free!

Consider your Asian American friends and their jobs; examine your own career. Are you working in jobs “stereotypical” for Asian Americans? Do your parents flaunt your job title and beam with pride when they announce it to friends and family (or do they mumble it under their breaths as they change the subject to your sister/brother the doctor/lawyer)? Our career selections may be due to occupational segregation, discrimination, minority stereotypes, etc. Let’s discuss over boba tea what factors may co-exist that influence our choices, and what others are doing outside of this stereotypical Asian American box.

Saturday, August 26
OCA-OC Workshop: Active Listening – Listen Carefully to Others

Sorry folks – the workshop has been cancelled since Albert Wong, the speaker, will be out of town .

If you’re interested in the topic however, feel free to contact Albert at: atwong@alumni.uci.edu for info. If there’s sufficient interest, we may reschedule this workshop for a future date.

Original workshop description:
Are you listening to me? Everyone has heard this question from a
parent, child, sibling, friend, teacher or coworker.
People listen differently. Stimuli pass through mental filters, such
as upbringing, background, education and culture. People use their
own perceptions to listen, which is why listening is different for
everyone and why effective communication can be difficult.

Active listening means listening for the content, meaning and
underlying attitude in every verbal and aural communication
situation. This can be a challenge. However, active listening skills
can be learned, sharpened and mastered.

This session led by Albert Wong addresses the following questions:

• What are the elements of spoken communication?
• What is the difference between hearing and listening?
• What is the difference between active listening and passive listening?
• What are the barriers to active listening?
• What are the techniques for active listening?
• What are the techniques for validating your perception and understanding in verbal communication?
• What are the techniques for active listening in telephone communication?

Tuesday, August 29, 7:30 pm – 9 pm
OCA-OC Coffee Talk: Stereotypical Asian American Careers

Tea Station – Irvine Culver
15333 Culver Dr.
Irvine, CA 92604
Restaurant Phone: 949-653-9989
Free!

Consider your Asian American friends and their jobs; examine your own career. Are you working in jobs “stereotypical” for Asian Americans? Do your parents flaunt your job title and beam with pride when they announce it to friends and family (or do they mumble it under their breaths as they change the subject to your sister/brother the doctor/lawyer)? Our career selections may be due to occupational segregation, discrimination, minority stereotypes, etc. Let’s discuss over boba tea what factors may co-exist that influence our choices, and what others are doing outside of this stereotypical Asian American box.

Thursday, August 10 – Sunday, August 13
OCA 28th National Convention
Philadelphia, PA

Join us for four days of workshops, seminars and gala luncheons and dinners in the City of Brotherly Love. With special programming for youth, college students, senior and job seekers, this is an excellent opportunity to network with OCA chapters from around the nation! Details:
http://www.ocanatl.org/bin/htmlos/02205.1.1025741142000020729

Tuesday, August 1, 7 pm
OCA-OC Book and Film Club: “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri
Echizen Restaurant
9111 Valley View
Cypress, CA 90660
Restaurant phone: 714-828-2155

Join us for the inaugural meeting of OCA-OC’s book and film discussion club! We’ll be meeting on a regular basis over dinner to discuss interesting movies and literary works, facilitated by OCA-OC’s newest board member, Natalia Yamashiro.

Our first book will be Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies,” winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The collection of nine short stories charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations, the out-of-context lives of South Asian immigrants, expatriates and first-generation Americans. In tales that “travel from India to America and back again, Lahiri speaks with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner.”

It’s not mandatory to read the book to attend, but of course you’ll be a lot more out of the discussion if you do! If you have any questions about the Book and Film Club or the book chosen, please contact Natalia at: 909-569-9655, nmyamashiro@verizon.net