The Conversation
- Seeking Asian Female (2)
- Raguel: Fuck me halfway through that trailer my testicles nearly crawled back into my body. What a fricking...
- trolldetector: All you need is love.
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (5)
- 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...
- Eurasian Sensation: Actually the trailer’s voiceover makes it seem wayyy more cheesy than it is. I don’t...
- 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...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (1)
- Lingyai: Lin’s style on the court: http://oi39.tinypic.com/f1xnvd .jpg Lin call Stanford coach a liar and says...
- “But he hit me back first!” (32)
- trolldetector: CHINESE PRIDE MUTHAFUKAZ
- bigWOWO: I didn’t post that video to mock Koreans (again, why do you seem to think everything is against...
- jstele: Stay classy, Byron. This whole argument isn’t even about race, but your ego and inability to admit that...
- 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...
- 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 )
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- Seeking Asian Female (2)
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Last Post of 2009
Happy upcoming New Year!
It’s been a busy week. I have a whole bunch of tests and continuing ed that I have to complete in the next week and a half. Just took a two hour licensing exam today that I passed with flying colors. Next week, however, is the more important test. If I don’t get through that one, there’s gonna be a world of hurt. I’ll be at my computer studying for that for most of the next few days.
The Asian Inferiority Complex
Beautiful model Du Juan
(pic from here)
I remember calling an Asian American friend when I first landed in Japan right after college.
“How do the guys here get anything done?” I asked him, jokingly. “The women here are eye-blindly beautiful. I’d have trouble keeping an eye on my work.”
At the time, Amuro Namie was really big in Japan. I was working for a White British woman at the school where I taught, and the British woman told me, “Have you heard of Amuro Namie? She is absolutely gorgeous. Among the most beautiful women in the entire world.”
Ping Pong Playas from Milpitas
Ariel Hsing, Table Tennis Champion
There is a good article in the Times today about table tennis making strides in Silicon Valley where all the Chinese and Indians live. The article has a cool video feature. Ariel Hsing is fast. She’s 14 years old and is currently the top-ranked player under 22 in the country. Her parents pay $40k a year to nurture and support her talent.
The article of course mentions the fact that table tennis isn’t as popular as the big sports like football and baseball. Only three colleges offer table tennis scholarships. Two thoughts:
Korea’s War on Shortness
(Pic from here–I found this site through Google, not because I knew the domain name…)
It was a slow day at work, so I wrote another post: Ambitious South Korean Parents See Tall as All. I caught this at 8A.
Racist HP Webcam
The video above is pretty funny and creative: HP Webcams can’t see black people. The cameras are supposed to recognize faces and follow them around, but apparently they don’t work if a person’s complexion is too dark. Consumer Reports tested out the claim and found that it was true, but it found that it could work with a black person if more lighting sources were added.
(Normally I’d say something about the STUPID comments under the YouTube video, but I’m going to maintain the holiday cheer and just ignore ‘em. Let’s be thankful those morons aren’t here.)
Lou Jing
Edit 12/28/09:
Thanks to adf who first raised the issue of possible bias on the part of CNN.
I asked a Chinese friend to look over the Chinese sites to see what was being said about allegations of infidelity on the part of Lou Jing’s mother, something that was not mentioned AT ALL in the CNN report. From what he gathered, it seems that:
1. Lou Jing’s mom told the public on an American Idol style show that Lou Jing was the result of infidelity while she was married to a Chinese guy.
"Orange Days": Review and Ideas
Orange Days
I’m going to post this with the fore-knowledge that no one is going to watch it. Like I said in my last J-Drama post, I don’t expect anyone here to watch J-dramas unless that person has a prior interest in Japanese culture and language. Maybe that frees me a bit; I don’t have to worry about dropping spoilers. If you’re going to watch this drama, feel free to stop reading, watch, and then come back (One of the links was broken, so I had to watch about fifteen minutes of the last episode with Spanish subtitles. You may need some knowledge of spoken Japanese and Japanese sign language to make that 15 minutes work. ) If you’re not going to watch this drama, feel free to read and comment–you won’t need to see it to understand the ideas. For those catching up, I’ve been checking out Japanese dramas just to get a feeling of the narrative style of Japanese TV. It’s supposed to help my writing. It’s pretty cool to see media by and about Asian people.
Girly Girls, Princesses, and Asian American Women
(pic from here)
I read Emily Co’s piece on AbsolutelyFobulous about the Princess and the Frog, and the implications of ethnic princesses. In her piece, she writes:
I know we have Mulan and everything, but somehow she doesn’t seem to fit that Disney princess mold. I’m pretty girly, so I’d love to see an Asian princess who traipses around in a poofy dress, preferably wearing a tiara. I just simply didn’t identify with Mulan and I wonder if little Asian girls feel the same way. I can’t really picture them clamoring to wear Mulan’s armor for Halloween when they can don Belle’s yellow froufrou ballgown.
Justice, Episode 12 (Final)
I’m putting this in a day early…here is the very last Justice Harvard lecture episode. This one is about Same Sex Marriage and the Good Life. It’s been a great three months. I will say that this has been the most educational video series I’ve seen, either through the internet or elsewhere. I don’t know how long they’ll keep these up, so check ‘em out. Way to go, Harvard! Sound off like a WOWO.
Raise your voice (and use your money) against the Philadelphia School District
Thanks to Minority Militant, Alpha-Asian, AngryAsianMan, Field, and, well, just about everyone else, for bringing some attention to the racial violence taking place at South Philadelphia High School. We’re not seeing it very much in the mainstream media, so I think it’s good that bloggers are “covering” it. (I put “covering” in parentheses since we’re just linking to a mainstream account.)
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Tagged Asian American, South Philadelphia High School, Violence
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