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| 53% of Asia's trade is within the region. |
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| Asia's self-propelling consumer economy is worth 19$ trillion a year. |
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| During the annual East Asia Summit, U.S presidents have routinly attended this event. In 2012 however, the summit launched a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the U.S was not invited. |
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| Gangnam style by Korean PSY has been seen more than a billion times on Youtube. |
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| The Super Bowl is the most widely watched sporting event in the U.S, 'Gangnam Style' is the most watched Youtube video in the world and Wonderful Pistachios is one of the best-selling snack nuts in North America. |
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| Paramount Farms signed PSY for a pistachio ad that aired during the Super Bowl. |
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| Asia contributes heavily to the nation's increasing diversity. The earliest travelers to America were of Asian decent. |
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| Japanese horticultural techniques influence our diets and physical landscape. |
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| Chinese life-saving practices have become universalized and are common practice for shipping and sailing. |
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| Practices regarding our physical and spiritual well-being are infused with pan-Asian culture aspects, from Buddhism to martial arts and yoga. |
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| Japanese architectural aesthetics influenced Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie style. |
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| Our language consists of words of Asian origin. |
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| A Filipino immigrant, Pedro Flores, brought the yo-yo and its popularity to the US. |
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| As of the 2000 Census, the Asian American/ Pacific Islander population in the US numbered 12 million people. |
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| Legend of the 12 animals of the zodiac is what started the zodiac fortunes in America today. |
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| Taj Mahal inspired the Trump Taj Mahal casino resort in Atlantic City. It's gaming floor is the largest in the world. |
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| Sanrio(creator of Hello Kitty) - publicly traded megacorporation, with 1.2$ billion in annoual sales, 648 company owned stores, 600 licsensed shops, and 3,600 retail accounts around the world. |
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| Porcelain originated in China |
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| Pagados are mimicked as oriental structures ranging from mall take-out food structures to ATMs. |
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| Nam June Paik is the father of video art. |
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| Americans from coast to coast have fashioned gardens, homes, and office buildings after Japanese models. |
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| Fans originated in China. |
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| The okigari koboshi was the original Weeble. |
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| Both painting and calligraphy with a brush originated in China. |
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| Cang Jie created the first carbon-based ink. |
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| Speed Racer is one of the most popular cartoons of all time. |
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| Anime is a mini-industry with annual revenues of $60 million in the U.S. |
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| "In 1994, over 40 Japanese cartoonists signed a letter complaining to Disney that The Lion King draws uncredited inspiration from Tezuka's [anime,] Jungeru Taitei." |
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| "3 million Godzilla toys and collectibles were sold in 1995 alone, and blockbuster filmmakers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin committed to making a big-screen American remake for the Sony-owned Hollywood studio TriStar Pictures." |
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| "In 1995, Michael Jackson used images from the anime Akira in his video for 'Scream'." |
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| "Dragonball is one of the most popular cartoons in the history of the world." |
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| "Robotech today remains one of the 5 best remembered science fiction TV shows of all time." |
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| "Sailor Moon generates close to $3.4 billion per year in gross revenue for its Japanese creators and licenses." |
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| Hong Kong cinema has become one of the most imitated film canons in the world. |
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| "Bollywood's annual output is almost 3 times that of Hollywood; more than 800 works are churned out every year, producing revenues of more than $1 billion." |
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| "Through 1997, the Power Rangers reigned supreme in ratings among the target 2-through-11 age group." |
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| Ninjas were first introduced to Western movies in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) |
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| 53 years ago, East Asian economies contributed 4% of the world's output. In 1997, they contributed 24%, which was the same amount as the United States, Mexico, and Canada. |
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| "The World Bank estimates that Asia will account for half the expansion in global trade." |
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| "The United States already exports far more to Asia than to the mature markets of Europe, while Europe ships twice as much to the developing world as to the United States." |
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| "According to the 1990 U.S Census, Asian-Americans are the country's fastest-growing minority." |
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| "More than 7 million people(in 1990), a little less than 3 percent of the population, trace their ancestry to Asian nations, up from 1.5 percent in 1980." |
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| "Chinese acupuncture and Japanese acupressure are available in any major U.S. city." |
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| "Korean ginseng and Chinese herbs are sold at local health food stores." |
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| "In 1995 total exports amounted to $111.7 billion, while imports total $103.6 billion." |
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| "Taiwan held the world's largest foreign-exchange reserves in 1995." |
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| "Microtech, for example, founded in 1980, captured 15 percent of the world market for desktop scanners." |
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| "Since 1989, India's software exports have averaged a stunning 40 percent increase, hitting $1.2 billion in 1995." |
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| "Major U.S information firms are making a home in India, which claims the second-largest pool of English-speaking scientific talent in the United States." |
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| John Naisbitt comments that "It is increasingly clear that the West can no longer count on maintaining leadership in technology development." |
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