The Conversation
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- 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...
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- 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: November 2009
Wall Street Bankers Becoming Cops
Officer Henry Chung
The bad economy has enabled the New York City Police Department to recruit some unusual talent. Many former Wall Street bankers, who have been hit hard by the economy, have signed up for the police academy and are becoming cops. I noticed this story because of the Asian guy above. Here’s what the article says:
“A year and a half ago, Henry Chung was an assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch, monitoring billions of dollars the firm traded on a daily basis.
Alphas vs. Betas
The Alpha Asian had an interesting post on something that I have been meaning to blog about for a long time: Alpha vs. Beta strategies. I specifically wanted to address this quote from him:
You just got to play up your strengths. I once watched a documentary on some birds. They showed a scene where two male birds were battling each other to see who would win the affections of a female. One male was protecting his woman, the other was challenging. While they were battling it out, another male sneaks up behind the female watching the fight and starts doing her. So as you can see, there’s no one way to succeed in life and love.
Posted in Citizenship, Features, Strategy
Tagged alpha, beta, mating strategies, social norms, sumo, winning
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Pacquiao Stops Cotto in Round 12
Before this fight, I told my wife, “I think Manny Pacquiao may be biting off more than he can chew.” It was just a year and a half ago that he was a super-featherweight, and Cotto is a pretty big guy at a natural 147. He hits really hard too. I had the same sinking feeling that I had right before Lyoto Machida’s last fight (which Machida won by decision but probably shouldn’t have). Speed is good, but one hard punch can hurt. Numerous hard punches can really ruin a person’s day. I thought Pac-Man would go down. I was wrong. Absolutely wrong.
Mr. Hyphen tomorrow, the quest for masculinity
As some of you know, Mr. Hyphen is tomorrow. Check it out if you’re in Oakland. It’s a male pageant, something which I wrote about before. I’m not crazy about the idea of male pageants for Asian American men. It’s in a feminine context, and I’ve felt that men must make a hard impact in order to find their power. But I’m not going to oppose it either. They raise lots of money for causes, and you can’t fault them for that. If I were in town, I might go myself.
Posted in Activism, Asian American
Tagged Asian American, beauty pageants, Gender, male pageants, masculinity
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Swine Flu
I haven’t caught this, but many people I know have. There have been 3,900 deaths in the U.S. so far. Protect yourself. Wash your hands often, especially if you have kids. And if you have any questions regarding the current state of this epidemic, check out the CDC website here.
Balloon Parents Expected to Plead Guilty
We’ve been following (kinda) the Balloon Boy saga, and it looks like it’s about to wrap up. Charges have been filed, and it is expected that the Heenes will plead guilty.
We’d brought up the idea of Richard being a rice chaser and taking advantage of Mayumi’s supposed cultural subservience, but what is ironic in this situation is that her nationality has now come into play. Mayumi is a citizen of Japan and could theoretically face deportation for her role in this crime:
The threat of deportation for Mayumi Heene was a factor in the plea deal negotiation, the attorney’s statement said.
Posted in Asian American
Tagged balloon boy, deportation, Heene, immigration, Mayumi Heene
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Gwen Stefani and her Muse
I can’t stop watching the video above. It’s perfect in every sense of the word–beautiful scenery, beautiful actors and actresses, beautiful melody, beautiful lyrics, beautiful acting, and very human. I must admit that I have not had the exact experience depicted in the clip–though probably something similar–but wow…after watching the clip, I feel like I was right there. What an amazing story.
Posted in media
Tagged Gwen Stefani, interracial relationships, media, storytelling, Tony Kanal, video
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Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100
(I posted this on the 44s last week. BTW, I think Levi-Strauss is the only famous dude who shares my birthday.)
Claude Levi-Strauss
From the NY Times today:
I rarely meet people who major in literature and artsy humanities, but when I do, I sometimes joke about Claude Levi-Strauss. Regardless of we studied–French lit, Spanish lit, Philosophy–everybody with a humanities major has read Claude Levi-Strauss. Tristes Tropiques is a classic, as well as a fascinating read into “primitive” cultures and how they share similar societal structures with so-called modern society. The idea of universal structuralism itself is great because it shows that one can learn about oneself by studying others. In my trips overseas, I’ve certainly found that to be true.
Hines Ward uses his fame to help biracials
Lots of inspiring things going on in the world today. Hines Ward, the 2006 Superbowl MVP, is using his celebrity to help the cause of biracial children in South Korea. Ward is half black and half Korean, and he was raised by his Korean mother in the United States. In the article, he talks about his own experiences as a biracial child:
