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Ken Fong

Ken Fong

Dr. Ken Fong is a retired senior pastor of Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles, former Executive Director of Fuller Seminary's Asian American Initiative, and founder/host of "Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast."

Aug 18, 2026

8:44
Can you just talk about that a little bit? Sure.
8:47
Several things come to mind going all the way back to my dissertation.
8:52
The Japanese and Chinese immigrated around the same time to America, but the difference was Japan was in a much stronger embracing of Western culture, and they were in a much stronger position with the U.S. government.
9:06
So they didn't have the – there was no Japanese Exclusion Act.
9:10
There was the Chinese Exclusion Act.
9:12
And so they were actually able to bring over, even though they were picture brides, women that weren't being trafficked.
9:20
They would get married, have children, establish families.

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20:07
So can you tell us more background about what do you do? What's they do with the later generation of Asian-Americans? Because they've now funded as an institution has really committed to more Asian and specifically more Korean.

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