The Conversation
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
- Siegfried: If it was a Russian or any other white man who told blacks”to go back to Africa”, it would...
- Raguel: I saw that Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing” years ago but still can’t understand it.
- bigWOWO: Stele: “Care to qualify that statement? Even if that were true, you have to look at this case on its...
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (7)
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- Raguel: Following the temporary shelving of SOPA and PIPA in the long line of net neutrality battles, the feds and...
- Chr..: “Asian American men have to get more involved, not less. It’s a civic responsibility, and you have to...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- What Cultures Value (19)
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- Moroboshi: I didn’t say that. All I said was guys who believe in HBD are the same guys who probably also follow...
- Chr..: Moro, I don’t want to argue with you anymore! You seem to think that AMs are just as popular as other...
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Paper Pushers by the Stunt People (4)
- Andre M. Smith: I divide my year annually between New York and Shanghai. One of my common visitations in the latter...
- Raguel: Smiley tests 8 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (245)
- Andre M. Smith: I believe some useful purpose will be served by offering here, what the lawyers might like to call,...
- N: What’s your opinion on Yundi Li and Yoyo Ma.
- Andre M. Smith: Amy Chua has never lived in China. Her understanding of its culture, that is, the culture as it’s...
- How to Finish Life With No Regrets (9)
- trolldetector: ^ i’d agree with that. but i wouldnt call them ‘idiots’, just misguided. crazy media...
- N: Agree with Jeff that not one regret is unlikely, the key is learn from it. Another way to look at it is that...
- American Jobs and India (14)
- lingyai: I am not sure what happen there with my name, that is not my email, so just ignore.
- lingyai@hotmail.com: @bigwowo Just because the average income in India is $2 a day doesn’t make a person...
- AM/AF couple: Nottyboy, Yes, just like every place of employment, upper management needs to do a better job in terms...
- Literary Fiction vs. Realistic Fiction and the Literary Hierarchy (6)
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
I wouldn’t say...
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012 (32)
- Raguel: http://www.occupydream.org/ ^ I heard about this from Russell Simmons. I hope that things develop well to...
- Raguel: So is that the reasoning for why you don’t need the right to due process? Are you some kind of fucking...
- N: @King The constitution gave power to the states to benefit white america or the constitution gave benefitial power...
- When Your Fan Base is Full of Crazy People (24)
- N: @American girl Too be honest, I don’t really see why this video that ‘disgusting’ –...
- Mitt Romney and the Problem of Wealth (6)
- Raguel: Where do people get their information and knowledge from, though? Media, and education, word of mouth only...
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Asian Stereotypes 101 for Filmmakers
Micah Moore asked me to present some information about movie stereotypes as they relate to Asian Americans. He writes:
What would be really helpful to filmmakers is you giving specific examples of known films (from any territory) that you do respect. Films that got it right in your opinion. And why. It would be great if you could include both films with characters that are all identified as part of only one culture, and also examples with multi-cultural casts.
Asian Kid Defends Self and Gets Charged
Protesting
(pic from here, double posted on RiceDaddies.)
I saw this on angryasianman. Apparently this Asian kid was getting bullied all year. The bully calls the Asian kid a f#$%ng Chinese,” and when a shoving match breaks out, he punches the Asian kid in the face. The Asian kid happens to be a black belt in martial arts, and so he punches back. Knowing his fighting ability, he punches with his non-dominant hand and aims for the jaw, but he winds up hitting and breaking the bully’s nose. His punch sends the bully to the hospital. Now the Asian kid is being charged with assault.
Upcoming Podcasts
We’re going to have two, possibly three upcoming podcasts. The first will be this coming weekend, and it will be between me and a surprise guest. We will be discussing the large interracial dating/marriage disparity in the Asian American community and its effect on both Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans. We will also discuss the future outlook and what can be done to fix any problems related to the issue. My guest has a loud opinion, and he’s looking forward to sharing it. I’m looking forward to hearing it. I anticipate that this will be fun. It’s an important issue, one which, despite all the typing on the internet, we do not discuss enough in real time.
Senator Arlen Specter Switches Parties
Senator Arlen Spector
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30456741
Wow. This is huge news. I’m…in shock.
I think the Republicans are going to have to work really hard on their message. Obviously it’s not working, even for their most loyal and powerful leaders. I think Specter’s decision to jump is going to have at least some kind of domino effect on the rest of the party.
Um…okay…that makes sense
According to CNN.com, the works of Ayn Rand are experiencing a resurgence in the wake of our financial crisis. Rand was a proponent of free markets, a believer in individualism, and someone who extolled the virtues of selfishness. People have begun to start re-examining her ideas:
“If only ‘Atlas’ were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee in the Obama administration. I’m confident that we’d get out of the current financial mess a lot faster,” Wall Street Journal columnist Stephen Moore wrote in early January.
Discussion from Obsessed
I saw the trailer for this movie on TV a couple of weeks ago, and so I blogged a bit about the race dynamics behind the production, the casting, and the movie itself. Though the reviews for this movie were harsh, the movie ended up topping this weekend’s box office numbers. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I want to see this movie. Badly.
House Party With Konrad Ng, Obama's Brother-in-Law
Curtis Chin, producer of “Who Killed Vincent Chin,” sent me the following. I think it’s an awesome opportunity for:
1. Community with your friends and colleagues
2. Learning about what President Obama is doing for Asian Americans
3. Making our collective voices heard at the national level
If anyone wants to do this, let me know, or you can D.I.Y over here!
On May 31st, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (apaforprogress.org) is hosting a nation-wide conference call with Konrad Ng, the Chinese American brother-in-law of President Obama. It will be a great chance to hear from someone so close to the President and to learn how the President might approach our community.
Global Warming and the Bible
(Thanks to P2H for this link.)
Rep. John Shimkus on global warming: “The earth will end only when God declares it’s time to be over; Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.”
It scares me to think about what went on in the days before youtube when politicians didn’t have to worry about us seeing their forays into moronism. This is a clear case of fundamentalist religion trumping logic, or fundamentalist religion creating stupidity. Shimkus has an engineering degree from West Point, but people often turn off their brains when that opiate of the people comes into play. To think that people criticized Clinton for smoking pot! Seriously, which drug kills brain cells faster? Bush may be gone, but the fundamentalist religious movement is still alive and kicking in the U.S. Congress.
The 44s announces its retirement
The Fighting 44s will move from active site to legendary myth. I’m retiring from the site, and the site is retiring from the blogosphere. We’ll party like it’s 1999 until the final bell tolls. The 44s has achieved great things in its short time in the blogosphere, and we will truly miss it.
By the way, check out some of the old archives and stuff from the past. Topics such as covert racism have been covered in relative depth–I say relative because you’ll get a deeper understanding by reading a book, but I know not everyone has the time or inclination to read. Some of the old, super-militant stuff has been deleted because the general populace just isn’t ready for such knowledge or can’t handle the truth. (Evil laughing sound.) That old stuff will simply have to remain in our memories. 44s forever.
Traditional blocking
From my 44s sprint:
I don’t know who is still here, but if we’ve got any of those crazy martial arts practicing mo-fos around (you know who you are), I’d like to pose a question.
I just found out yesterday that Lyoto Machida, after literally waiting years, will finally get his well-deserved shot at the UFC Light Heavyweight Title. On May 23rd, he will fight and (I predict) destroy Rashad Evans.
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