The Conversation
- Scapegoating our own (12)
- 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: May 2009
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
(Pic from here)
Was reading some of the comments from the last podcast, and I just wanted to share a few thoughts. These are just my thoughts. Feel free to disagree.
1. Asian men and women and women share a common link. Socially, both rise and fall within the hierarchy together. One may be ahead of the other at any given point, but each hinders or buoys the other. When Hong Kingston diminishes me, she diminishes Asian women. People see her elevating White men on a pedestal, and it makes her look bad. Similarly, if I were to launch a war against Asian women, I’d end up destroying Asian men. I can’t launch a war against my own daughter or sister and expect it to empower me. (And yes, I have both.) Especially my daughter–my job is to protect her and do whatever I can to exert an influence that encourages her creativity and freedom.
Raising my Asian kids Jewish
I saw this story on the Omamas blog: A talk with Wendy Mogel, author of ‘Blessing of a Skinned Knee.’
The author is giving a talk at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center this Thursday (tomorrow) the 7th. I hadn’t heard of her prior to reading the post, and I don’t know if I’m going to make it out to the Hillsdale area tomorrow, but based on her advice in the interview, I may very well check out her book. As a parent, I believe that parents who overparent are worse than parents who underparent. I think parents who don’t allow their kids to make decisions, who micromanage their kids, and who create an environment of fear, are much worse than parents who simply don’t show up. I like her quote: “The kids who do best in college are the kids who have life skills and not this fancy academic sophistication.”
Update on Bullied Asian Kid
Thanks to Annie from Boston, who posted this. It looks like the Asian kid (who is from Korea) will be reinstated, and the suspension will be removed from his record. The Asian boy still faces criminal charges, but the families of the two boys have made amends, and the White boy has apologized for the racial slur. The White boy’s family has also called the police and asked for the charges to be dropped.
I think this is a great example of strong activism. The kids at the school walked out on Monday, and by doing so, they brought attention from the media and pressure on the school for a huge injustice. Even though they’re kids, they are the ones who are acting like adults.
Podcast: URB4N talks about Interracial Relationships
After our first attempt at discussing IR via podcast, we finally brought back URB4N! In this podcast, URB4N, a 29 year old Asian American alpha male investment banker from NYC who posts on 8Asians, Yellowworld, and the 44s, discusses the interracial dating disparity among Asian Americans, and he shares his thoughts about how it affects society, where the trend is heading, and what Asian men need to do. Download it here, or listen to it here:
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How to Ollie by Tony Hawk
In case anyone was wondering.
That guy makes it look so easy.
It’s amazing what you can learn over the web these days. See here and here–in addition to boarding, you can learn to play guitar and deliver a baby.
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Caught with Another Woman
Jon from Jon and Kate Plus 8, the most popular show on TLC, is in trouble for infidelity. He got in trouble for partying with college girls last year, and this time he got caught with a lady friend. See the video above.
Dateline on Emery Kauanui
For those who missed it, there was an excellent feature on Dateline last night about the death of surfer Emery Kauanui. If you remember, I blogged about this late last year, and Tokyolovestory from the 44s blogged about her high school friend Hank, one of the boys who was tried as an accessory.
Check out the feature if you have time. It’s a really sad story, totally senseless. This was one of those cases where the defense had, well, no defense. It’s hard to argue for a 220 lb. guy who drove to his 145 lb. victim’s house, killed his victim, and then claimed self-defense, despite the facts that it was a 5 on 1 fight and he outweighed the victim by 75 lbs. The drama between the prosecutor and the defense attorney was interesting as well.
"The Battle of East and West"
“The Battle of East and West?” Man, the gimmicks people use to sell tickets! I don’t blame them–with the UFC eating into boxing ticket sales, they have to do something to save this sinking ship. But still–”Battle of East and West?”
As for the fight itself, it won’t be pretty. Barring some kind of miracle, Pacquiao is going to open Hatton up like a can of tomato sauce. It won’t even be close to fair. Pacquiao, as they mention in the video, is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world today, and I guess he has to fight someone. But this fight isn’t going to be nice or even exciting. Unless you think of it as a “Battle of East and West.”
Evangelicals most likely to support torture
Evangelicals are the most likely to support torture. People who don’t go to church are less likely to support torture, and the least likely group to support torture are mainstream Protestants–religious people without the evangelical Bible Thumping persuasion.
Is anyone surprised by this at all? Growing up at an evangelical Bible Thumping church, I know how it is. You have preachers at these churches teaching young kids that the world is sinful, that God will end up destroying the world by fire, that they are “soldiers” of Jesus Christ, and that they will be persecuted for their beliefs (despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of leaders and politicians in this country are Christian). Is it any wonder that these people learn to disregard the humanity of people who look or think differently from them?
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