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: June 2009
Explorations between here and the motherland
Sugabelly recently came to my blog and left a comment on my Africa post. I thank her for that. Check out her absolutely fantastic blog. It’s full of interesting observations about Nigeria, Nigerian culture, and the world in which we live.
I especially enjoyed her podcast on Africans vs. African Americans. I’ve read about some of the cultural differences between the two groups before. It’s an interesting debate, especially with her observations about how each group stereotypes the other. With differences in the long legacy of African American slavery and the cultural background of recent African immigrants, it’s no wonder that there are debates. Check out her comment thread.
Holden Caulfield shows his age
I don’t have time for a real Fathers Day post, so this will have to do for now.
I saw this interesting article this morning about the Catcher in the Rye. The gist of the article is that kids these days don’t admire the main character Holden Caulfield. They see him as a lazy slacker, and in the words quoted by the article, ““weird,” “whiny” and “immature.”” One teacher sums it up well:
Ray Bradbury in action
Ray Bradbury
88 years old and still fighting. That’s how I hope to be.
Ray Bradbury is fighting, speaking, and fundraising for public libraries in California. The famous sci-fi writer is helping to save the libraries, which are suffering due to declining property tax revenues in the Ventura area. I remember reading Bradbury’s account of writing Fahrenheit 451, where he rented space at a typewriter to start and complete his novel. That’s some serious history. I love this guy’s take on libraries:
Hungry for Knowledge
Kids writing in the dirt because their school doesn't have chalk
CNN has a very enlightening article on kids and books in Africa. The educational system and resources in Africa are shocking. According to a U.N. study, 33% of school aged children in Africa have never set foot in a classroom, many kids don’t even have access to a pencil, and there are no bookshops in Tanzania. Books are so rare that kids greet them, treasure them, and protect them as if they were the most important thing in the world.
Ajay Bhatt: Engineering Rock Star
I need to apologize to CBS. In a previous post, when describing how CBS is beating the $%^ out of NBC in programming, I tempered my words by saying that NBC had a good backlist. I stand by those words–I’ll always be an original Knight Rider fan. However, CBS has an even better backlist. A much better backlist, in fact. They’ve got the original Twilight Zone and original Star Trek. Nothing beats that. You put an endless supply of beer in the room and plop me in front of a TV playing a Twilight Zone marathon, and I’m good for life.
Fish and more fish
Does everyone out there eat fish?
I’m a big Asian fish fan, that is, I usually prefer it Asian style–either Chinese style or Japanese sushi style. It’s healthy, it’s clean, and it requires very little in terms of marinating, rubbing, etc. There’s a clean feeling that comes from eating fish that doesn’t exist with other “meats.” It’s good eating too–it won’t clog your arteries with cholesterol, and there are health benefits from the fact that most fish contain Omega 3. Plus, fish don’t release large amounts of methane into the atmosphere like cows. Fish contain protein, which is essential to a healthy lifestyle.
Tagged Asian, cooking, environmentalism, fish, health
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By, About, and For Rice Chasers
Someone posted this on Facebook.
I’ll admit I didn’t read the whole article. I skimmed the first page, and the only thing that caught my eye was this:
As far as I can boil it down, Bernstein wishes to argue that the history of liaisons between Eastern women and Western men should not be condemned out of hand. In spite of the undeniable backdrop of injustice and exploitation, some of these encounters have been a Good Thing, offering to the men a reprieve from the repressive sexual morality of the Christian West and to the women a chance at a less traditionally patriarchal relationship than they might have had with many of their countrymen. There may be manifest inequities between these couples, but their trysts have sometimes blossomed into real affection, tenderness and love.
Size Matters
For those who don’t know, I’m trying hard to get into shape. I’ve got an athletic competition coming up later this summer, so I’ve been running more than I’ve ever run before. I can now do 5 miles in one outing–prior to this summer, my maximum had been two. My goal is to be able to run 5 miles 3 times within a day. In achieving this goal, I’m also trying to get my weight down from 170 to 150. I have a bad knee, so this most likely will be a one shot deal, and after this summer, I’ll have to find other ways to keep in shape.
Podcast: Eric Jacobus and Edward Kahana from the Stunt People
Our latest podcast featured aznheartthrob from BicoastalBitchin, myself, and Eric Jacobus and Ed Kahana from the Stunt People. Download the podcast here, or listen to it here:
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Tagged Asian American, Ed Kahana, Eric Jacobus, media, movies, podcast
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A Disadvantage of Small, Independent Media
Protesters in Seoul, South Korea
Good article here about Euna Lee and Laura Ling and how Current TV’s status as a small upstart affects their chances for freedom. According to the article, it’s harder for a smaller channel like Current to exert leverage over foreign governments. Roxanna Saberi had the same problems in Iran. The article says:
One of the risks of this kind of improvised, headlong journalism is that reporters lack the backing of large established news organizations that might have the experience and leverage to deal with foreign governments. While Ms. Ling and Ms. Lee, full-time employees of Current, have the backing of Al Gore, who is a founder of the network, they lack the support system that their colleagues at CNN and the British Broadcasting Corporation enjoy.
