The Conversation
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- colin: I was pretty impressed with Lin, until some digging around leads me to believe he’s more interested in...
- Eurasian Sensation: Why does anyone give a shit? The US is the global capital of people loudly claiming their love...
- What Cultures Value (21)
- “But he hit me back first!” (37)
- colin: It’s taboo to speak this truth in America, but here it is: Blacks are as racist as, if not more than,...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Raguel: It’s interesting that you raise the Indonesian Chinese, as there are indeed some...
- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
- Seeking Asian Female (7)
- King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- raguel: LOL @ Chen and traumatic comedy XD The more I discover about mail-order marriages the more horrible the...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)
- “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...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Boy Bias in Asian American Families?
This one surprised me. Evidently, there is a boy bias in Asian American births, namely Chinese American, Korean American, and Indian American births. According to the article:
In general, more boys than girls are born in the United States, by a ratio of 1.05 to 1. But among American families of Chinese, Korean and Indian descent, the likelihood of having a boy increased to 1.17 to 1 if the first child was a girl, according to the Columbia economists. If the first two children were girls, the ratio for a third child was 1.51 to 1 — or about 50 percent greater — in favor of boys.
Prison
Jail cell or hotel room?
The NY Times Magazine has an excellent feature on Infrastructure this week (6/14/09). They talk about a bunch of exciting topics related to the infrastructure of our society, such as form vs. function, trains, and data centers. The second most interesting article to me was the data center article. I used to work in a data center before the first tech crash, and it brought back memories, plus it raised questions about how computing and information is changing. As the developing world continues to modernize, we’re going to need more and more servers. The article also made me think about the fact that I have no idea where bigWOWO lives.
David Choi on Race
Thanks, Dizzle, for sending this. Check out the video, and if you feel inspired, leave a comment. I don’t know if I’ll get as many comments as David Choi got on his youtube page, but if I get comments, I’ll probably get more intelligent comments (it never ceases to baffle me how easily people throw around racial and ethnic slurs on youtube pages).
It’s a Friday, and I’m tired of philosophizin’. I’m not going to say that I agree/disagree with all of David’s statements–I’d rather just let you all discuss it and see what you think. Cheers.
Today is Loving Day
Thanks, MN, for sending this: Today is Loving Day, where the mission of the organization is “to fight racial prejudice through education and to build multicultural community.” It’s named after Mildred and Richard Loving, whose court case brought interracial marriage all the way up to the Supreme Court. Learn about them here. They finally won their right to love each other.
I’ve seen Mildred Loving used as a justification for the good as well as the bad. I’m a bit tired, so I’m not going to re-post the bad. But overall, I do think the freedom to have IR is good, even for those of us who are not in IRs.
Armchair Armwrestling and Diverse Diversifying
Armchair
(pic from here)
Slanteyefortheroundeye has a good interview with the Secret Identities boys here. (He makes mention of our man Jimmy Aquino at the end). In the interview, SEFTRE asks Jeff Yang about inclusion of different minority groups and sexual orientations, and Jeff mentions a Racialicious post that attacked him on questions of diversity. If you read the comments in the Racialicious post, you can see Jeff try to defend himself only to have lots of angry people showing their fangs.
Peace and Clarity
There’s a beautiful essay/blog entry by Pico Iyer, the famous travel writer, in the Times today. In the essay, he talks about how he left the busy rat race to take a quieter life near Kyoto where he has no bicycle, television, or media. He acknowledges that his quiet lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but it helps him. Here’s an excerpt:
The millionaires I know seem desperate to become multimillionaires, and spend more time with their lawyers and their bankers than with their friends (whose motivations they are no longer sure of). And I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno’s arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.
Humanities and CEO Thought
Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO of Darden Restaurants
Interesting interview with Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO of Darden Restaurants here. Two reasons I’m posting this.
1. It’s good to hear from a minority CEO, especially as it relates to hearing ideas. Minority CEOs not only break stereotypes, but they also contribute to the dialogue on what constitutes good governance.
2. Look what he says:
Q. Anything in your background that, looking back, prepared you for the art of building a team?
Tagged art, business
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Shek Kin (Shih Kien) dies
Shek Kin
Thanks to Eric for mentioning that Shek Kin, the bad guy from Enter the Dragon, passed away recently at the age of 96. Read his obituary here. He had quite a long and effective career. “Unconventional…but effective” hahah…sorry, I think that was actually Jim Kelly’s (Williams) line. Shek Kin had the perfect bad guy face, perfect bad guy aura, and was an excellent bad guy. Watching Enter the Dragon, one really feels like he is Han, owner and master of his own world where he trains fighters.
Euna Lee and Laura Ling Sentenced to Twelve Years
According to CNN, Euna Lee and Laura Ling were sentenced by North Korea’s high court to 12 years hard labor, which was the expected maximum sentence. If carried out, this guarantees that Euna Lee’s daughter will grow up without a mother. I have no idea what kind of kangaroo court they put these poor women through, but that’s an awfully fast decision given the fact that the trial only started on Thursday. As mentioned in the video above, many people don’t survive the labor camps, but the report also says that in the past, convicted American journalists and soldiers have not actually gone to the labor camps and have instead been freed through negotiations. Hopefully this will happen again.
Posted in media, News, Politics
Tagged Asian American, Euna Lee, journalism, Laura Ling, media
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Fast Food in China
Fast food is all the rage in China. A new Kentucky Fried Chicken opens every day. It’s a good day to be a corporate giant in China, a bad day to be a chicken. (Haha…they’re probably imported, so maybe it’s a bad day to be a chicken in the U.S.)
What I thought was most unexpected about this video was the fact that people in China think fast food is healthy. Healthier than Chinese food? KFC and Mickey D’s must be doing some serious hard marketing back in the motherland.
