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- Frank Chow: @King He definitely said he opposed “same-sex marriage”, that didn’t change....
- King: @ Frank But Manny didn’t even say what he’s been accused of.
- Frank Chow: I think any athlete should be an athlete and accept the responsibility of their words in a public forum....
- Facebook co-founder renounces U.S. citizenship prior to IPO (13)
- Raguel: This is a storm in a tea cup, a new five minutes of hate. This is because despite the outrage, people will...
- Frank Chow: “The country is not over-taxed; in fact, tax rates are near 60 year lows.” -source,...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Mark Cuban is rich (richer than me anyway), and he’s just as horrified as I am. I don’t...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (428)
- LadyBlack: Hello, you who believe that some races are inferior and that some are superior. As a Black (in particular...
- bigWOWO: Thanks, Grover!
- Grover Porquel: Excellent roundup. I have taken on these “biodiversity” types myself over the years and...
- Higher education: the next subprime bubble (5)
- bigWOWO: Let’s think hypothetically. Let’s say they had quotas, such as a company of X number of...
- kobukson: In the past, a high school diploma was sufficient for getting a job. Things changed and a HS diploma...
- bigWOWO: I do agree with you, Ei, to a certain point. I have heard that some lawyers and engineers are having...
- Americans Eat the World’s Cheapest Food (36)
- bigWOWO: A week in, and: I liked the mock chicken, but the family didn’t like it. I don’t know if...
- King: ^ But isn’t Anthony Bourdain the same guy who recently called Paula Deen the “Worst Unhealthy Cook” for...
- kobukson: I like Anthony Bourdain’s take on vegetarians and vegans: “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like...
- Why Do Asian People Have Bad Eyesight? (37)
- Suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination (34)
- George: The problem with the entertainment industry is that they have already stated that blacks are not on the show...
- George: “Oh and prediction, you know the first female non white bachelorette will be Asian, and it will be...
- Chen: i’ve been reading about BFOQ cases, and it seems as if the entertainment industry wins unless they do...
- Reasons to eliminate black studies (23)
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (569)
- Raguel: Actually, white people may laugh at him even more, and that may be why they like him so much.
- Raguel: How does this nihilistic dog so filled with ressentiment and love of the slave morality even dare to mention...
- ChineseMom: (continued) Criticism of contemporary Chinese literature and Marxism Q: After the publication of your...
- Immigration records of Asian immigrants to be made available to public (2)
- American woman becomes hero to abused women in China (39)
- Chen: thats it. This woman got beat up, and that is wrong. I’m sure some assholes are going to use that and run...
- Eurasian Sensation: Patriarchal practices are incredibly ingrained in some countries and are extremely hard to shift....
- Raguel: Wasn’t it reported in one of the major american magazines like life, time etc that travelling ulamas...
- San Diego student left alone in cell for five days (3)
- bigWOWO: Haha…I know, Zach! This is the absolute worse kind of invisibility that there is!
- Zach Katagiri: Man — talk about asian american males being invisible!!
- Linda: this will be the next episode of “I survived….” I am surprised they don’t have video...
- Adventures of the Karaoke King by Harold Taw (Review and Question) (4)
- bigWOWO: Alpha, Glad that you see the precious metals rather than the ranking! Although I guess I should consider...
- Raguel: Why not make contact with other blogs and Asian American websites to feature your reviews? This way,...
- Alpha Asian: B, I know what you mean. A lot of reviewers just give very bland reviews and they don’t really...
- Asian women fetch high prices for egg donation (5)
- Dman: I don’t get the article Asian women in demand for donating her eggs. I did not see anything mentioned...
- bigWOWO: I think that buying an egg is financially easier these days than adoption from China. I know people trying...
- Linda: Also regarding about adoption. I think a lot of Americanized Asians are open to adoption in the US. (unlike...
- Re-Programming Your Mind (74)
- Chr..: I’m not making this up! I saw this guy in front of a Trader Joe’s here in NYC not too long ago as...
- Asian Women and the Invisible Chain (187)
- Chr..: @ King Yes, and what can the general masses do to stop with what’s going on right now? Not much I would...
- King: @ Chr Because the money, more than anything else, is ‘the system’ that affects everything else.
- Chr..: “The whole thing looks like a very twisted version of musical chairs, doesn’t it?” Why does this...
- Creative Monopolists (3)
- Asian husband-wife team on Shark Tank (3)
- Artists Who Refuse to Work for Free (5)
- Courtney: I have been drawing for 22 years. I think it’s really inconsiderate to ask an artist to sit down for...
- More Asian Americans Marrying Within Their Race (106)
- Chr..: “Look at some of the fatcats on Wall Street–a guy who can drop $800 on a single night out isn’t...
- The Richer Sex by Liza Mundy (Review) (12)
- Chr..: “dystopian mating marketplace where, like income inequality, the rewards of female sexuality will go...
- Whiteness and American TV (9)
- Linda: @hadoken – I don’t know why korean dramas are like crack. I go thru phases. since it’s a...
- Scapegoating our own (12)
Monthly Archives: November 2008
An Inconvenient Truth
My friend Dennis lent me this DVD three months ago, and I just finished watching it. What took me so long?
This is an excellent and informative movie. Al Gore is at his best; you can see his passion in addressing what is certainly one of the biggest problems of the current time. After eight years of George W. Bush and his war against planet Earth, we need to get serious about fighting global warming.
Everyone should see this movie.
The website is here: www.climatecrisis.net.
(Picture from Amazon.com.)
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Taking Aim at Tenure
I first read about Michelle Rhee a while ago when she was first being considered for the chancellor position in public schools. At the time, the brouhaha was over whether or not an Asian woman should be considered for a position that oversees schools that have large African American populations, but because she had ample support, she was able to overcome.
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Tule Lake Yearbook
Found this interesting newsbit on AngryAsianMan, who got it from BoingBoing.
The University of California scanned and uploaded “Aquila,” which is the yearbook for Japanese Americans interned at Tule Lake. See it here: Tule Lake Yearbook. It’s an interesting bit of history. You can see more interesting primary source historical documents at the Calisphere, and there’s a specific section dedicated to the Japanese American internment here: JARDA. I plan to check out the whole site later.
Avoiding Truth
Toshio Tamogami
According to the Washington Post, a Japanese air force chief named Toshio Tamogami was ousted last month for saying that Japan was not an aggressor during World War II. This isn’t old news; I have friends in Japan who say that they didn’t know about Japan’s WWII history until they traveled to Australia and felt the resentment from people whose relatives had been killed. The issue, of course, is that Japan is still relatively insular, and that the Japanese government has taken virtually no responsibility for educating its citizens about the truth. Leaders like Tamogami are more interested in building false confidence rather than teaching truth.
Aloha Platter
This is great…everyone is thinking proactively about what the Obama presidency will bring. In the latest installment, people are speculating about the Hawaiian Lunch Plate, although the article rightly states that it probably won’t get lots of coverage, “given Mr. Obama’s clear fixation with staying trim and healthy.” Still, it would be awesome for Obama to bring recognition to this highly delicious cuisine. Personally, whenever I go to Hawaii, this is the first thing I go for, even though there’s tons of more expensive and supposedly higher quality touristy food around.
This food is also a part of Asian American history:
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Learn Math, Indian Style
Globalization is an amazing thing. Especially with the internet, the new age is one in which other cultures are just a click and a pageview away.
Just saw this story: Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style. Bob Compton, producer of Two Million Minutes, has co-founded a site called Indian Math Online, which uses an Indian approach to the teaching of mathematics to kids. He co-founded the site with Suresh Murthy, who grew up in India. Mr. Murthy has a personal investment in the company, since he has daughters who study math. So far, it looks like most of Indian Math Online’s clients have been Indian and Chinese immigrants:
A Victory for Smart People
Great opinion piece about Obama and intellectualism from Kristof in yesterday’s NY Times.
Kristof, Friedman, Brooks, and the rest of the NY Times group have been talking about American anti-intellectualism ever since I can remember. It’s an American Catch-22–we have complex problems that require complex solutions, but we as a culture tend to prefer leaders who can relate rather than solve, and so we often elect people who may not be intellectually up to the job. Kristof points to Kennedy as our last openly intellectual president. I don’t know enough about the others to compare, but I’ve read Kennedy’s speeches, and it was amazing how he would talk about Greek history and American policy in the same breath. Kennedy was definitely not ashamed of his intelligence.
Chivalry – Dead, Alive or Lost Spirit?
[Jaehwan's Note: This is another piece from W about gender relations. It doesn't necessarily reflect my views, but it's a good piece to get some dialogue going on the relationships between Asian American men and Asian American women. I hope that featuring pieces like this will invite dialogue, on this site, on other sites, and over teleconferences, which I feel are extremely helpful in understanding other people's opinions.
One thing I will say is that the web, overall, is sexist, and so I think it's important to get more female perspectives out in the open for people to see and discuss. I'd like to send a big thank you out to W for her courage and proactiveness in sharing her opinions.]
Brawling Monks
Fighting monks
On Sunday morning, there was a massive brawl between monks of different Christian religious denominations in Jerusalem. According to CNN:
Monks from the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations were preparing for a ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City when a disagreement led to a full-fledged fist fight.
All I can say is this: thank goodness this fist fight didn’t take place among Shaolin monks.
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Race and Specialized NY High Schools
This story comes up every so often: there is a racial imbalance in specialized NY high schools, with Asian and white students taking up most of the spots. The disparity was pretty big when I was high school age, and since then it has only grown bigger:
In this city of 1.1 million public school students, about 40 percent are Hispanic, 32 percent are black, 14 percent are Asian and 14 percent white. More than two-thirds of Stuyvesant High School’s 3,247 students are Asian (up from 48 percent in 1999). At Brooklyn Technical High School, 365 of the 4,669 students, or 8 percent, are Hispanic; at the Bronx High School of Science, there are 114 blacks, 4 percent of the 2,809-student body.
