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: August 2009
Kristof and WuDunn win award
Kristof and WuDunn
Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn are the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize winners. The Dayton award, according to the website, is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace. The award recognizes Kristof and WuDunn for their work in bringing awareness to issues around the world, particularly women’s issues.
I’m not familiar with WuDunn’s work. I do think that Kristof deserves the award–despite being annoyingly flippant at times, and despite his tendency to portray himself as the good western rescuer, he has brought much needed attention to problems around the world. He has dug deep in uncovering issues, and he has promoted environmentalism and other issues that are important. Many of these issues would probably remain unknown without his work.
Asians, Ethics, and You
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Never drive when drunk, and never post when tired. I’m good about the first, and usually good about the second, but when the fatigue shows no sign of going away, I’m willing to step in and do what I have to do.
In this case, I saw this post by Jeff at 8 Asians. In the post, he talks about a White Realtor telling his brother-in-law that the Asians are ruining everything in real estate by providing kickbacks to buyers. Jeff then talks about how Asian people also do good things by buying houses in good areas and stabilizing the market. I posted the following:
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Tagged Asian American, Bible thumpers, business, Ethics
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Wong Fu on CNN
3 Steps to Novel Writing
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Continuing our Strategy and Motivation series, Alpha-Asian has written about Overcoming Writer’s Block. As you all know, Alpha is a successful writer for bodybuilding magazines, as well as a successful self-publisher of fitness books. As an author, he has achieved what most of us dream of achieving. If you’ve got writer’s block, definitely check out his post–there’s lots of good info there.
Rampaging PUAs
Just saw this at the Anti-Social Ladder. It’s a great post, and she also links this great article by Dan Savage.
I’d been meaning to blog about this story for a while. It’s the story of George Sodini, a man who was getting very little sex, who responded by taking it out on the entire female gender by going to a fitness gym and murdering three women with a gun. Sodini was a disturbing psychopath; you can see his blog at the ABC News site. According to his blog, he hadn’t had sex since 1990. George Sodini was also a Pick-Up Artist in training, but he failed in his efforts and took his frustration out on random women.
White Faces for Hire
"Hi, I'm JOHN."
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I found this link from The Minority Militant’s blog, which linked me to the original story. In China, they sometimes hire White people to act as executives for sales meetings. They do this in order to fake other companies into believing that they are more international than they really are. As one White actor says, “In America, this is fraud, but in China, it’s marketing.”
Disturbing Talent
Check out the video above. Watch the whole thing.
I’ve had this CD for a while, ever since a friend gave it to me as a gift some seven or eight years back. Noriyuki Makihara’s tunes are catchy, and the instrumentals are quite unique. He’s quite talented. On a whim, I decided to search for him on youtube, and the video above came up. At first, I was thinking, man, that female actress is extremely photogenic. Then I was thinking, wow, that is highly disturbing. And then I was thinking, wow, that’s REALLY disturbing. I must’ve watched this video seven times.
Musts and Shoulds
As mentioned in yesterday’s podcast, we’re going to enter a discussion on strategy, motivation, and getting things done. We’ll probably be posting stuff like this throughout August. Alpha Asian, and maybe others, will be joining in next week (Edit: See AlphaAsian’s post here), and we’ll be strategizing and offering ways to help our readers achieve things. These pieces of advice could be applied to activism, career, or anything that you’re trying to achieve.
There are a few reasons why I’m going this route.
Podcast: Empowered Mentality / Medicine Dilemma
I recorded my own personal podcast last night. You can download it here, or hear it here:
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Tagged Activism, Asian American, Ethics, Portland
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BJ Penn and Anderson Silva Win
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Wild night in Philly (though I watched from SE Portland). Anderson Silva had an unbelievable defeat over Forrest Griffin. He was so much faster than Griffin that there was no chance of him losing. In the final few seconds, he put his hands down and just threw random punches, much the same way Naseem Hammed used to do it. He knocked Griffin out with a really short punch. It was, to say the least, surprising.
