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: February 2010
East West Magazine Closes Down
It looks like East West Magazine is shutting down. Read the editor’s blog here–I agree with all of her reasons for closing it down, even though it’s sad to see it’s go. East West will become yet another casualty of high printing costs, fewer advertisers, and the hard economy. I never read East West (I’m not an AA woman), but with their passing goes yet another area where Asian Americans can discuss culture and society. They now join Yolk and A Magazine. Next on the block is Giant Robot, which is desperately trying to raise $60,000 to stay in business:
Down and Out in the Great Recession
David Brooks wrote an excellent column for the NY Times: The Lean Years. In his essay, he writes about how men have been disproportionately affected by the recession, and how people who come to working age during bad economic times usually sustain permanent damage to their earning capacity over a lifetime. Brooks’s column links to another excellent article, this time from the Atlantic: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America.
Taking Back the Key
The Princess and her non-black Prince
I had a longer discussion relevant to this topic before, so I’ll try to keep this one short. Neutral Observer had asked what I felt about the FlashForward IR between John Cho and Gabrielle Union, and I said that it was a positive step, but that there was something a bit off about it, perhaps mostly the fact (as I see it) that an Asian man will never be a king in a land of plentiful single black women, and that a black woman will never be queen in a land of plentiful single Asian men. There are some people who are demanding to see more such couples, but the vast majority of black women strongly prefer to be with black men, and a large (though significantly smaller, according to John Tierney from the the NY Times) majority of Asian men prefer Asian women.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features, Knowledge, Strategy
Tagged interracial relationships
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Educating Children About Food
I thought some of you might enjoy this. Jamie Oliver, a winner of the 2010 TED Prize, talks about how America can help its young people live longer and healthier through better school cafeteria programs and education about food. His recommendations are interesting: kids should know what they’re eating, and they should be able to cook at least ten healthy recipes by the time they leave school.
I credit Jamie Oliver for starting my own interest in cooking. He makes it sound fun, and he communicates his passion for food through his words. I think this is a good prescription not just for schools, but also for parents. We parents need to do more to raise our children to appreciate and to know food.
The Oak Park Story
Sylvie from The Anti-Social Ladder sent the following press release. The documentary is going to be showing alongside Curtis Choy’s Manilatown is in the Heart. If you’re in SF, check it out.
For Immediate Release
February 15, 2010
Contact: Valerie Soe (vsoe@sfsu.edu) and Russell Jeung (rjeung@sfsu.edu))
The Oak Park Story World Premiere, March 14-15, 2010 at SFIAAFF
Visit the official blog for The Oak Park Story
Apolo Ohno Wins Most Men's Winter Olympics Medals in History
Apolo Ohno
I unfortunately didn’t get to see this tonight, but two of the South Koreans in the 1500 m short track collided with one another, allowing Apolo Ohno to win a silver and to move past Eric Heiden to become the American male with the most medals. He now has six medals, and he is tied with Bonnie Blair for most decorated American athlete in the Winter Olympics. Things are looking good for Ohno, as he’s got three more races, three more opportunities to surpass Blair. Short-track seems so luck based–one wipeout can make or break a medalist. Still, luck seems to be with Ohno these days.
Jake Shimabukuro Interview at Ted
Thanks to Gil for posting this.
Jake Shimabukuro was interviewed at the famous TED conference. Watch the first interview in the top video, the second part in the middle video. See him playing George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” in the last video. It looks like Shimabukuro is a real innovator with the ukulele. Some of the stuff he does in the top video are amazing. He’s also a great interviewee. You can tell by the way he interviews that he really loves what he does, and that he has total love for his audience.
John Mayer and his "David Duke cock"
John Mayer
Thanks to Larry who brought this story to my attention.
John Mayer was recently interviewed by Playboy. After using the N-word flippantly, he talked about how he doesn’t open himself up to black women because he has a “David Duke cock” which he describes as “white supremacist.” You can go to the Playboy site for the interview here and really read this one just for the article.
I think his use of the n-word is disturbing. It’s arrogance out of left field.
His statements about dating and black women, however, are flat out asinine. Plus, they make no sense:
Joe and Heidi Wang from the Amazing Race
Joe and Heidi Wang
I just got the newsflash from 8 Asians: Joe and Heidi Wang will be running the Amazing Race, beginning this Sunday on CBS. Like the winners Tammy and Victor Jih from last season, the team has an Asian American male and an Asian American female, but unlike last season, they’re not brother and sister. Woohoo for diversity! They’re also parents of two children, so cheers for the Rice Daddy.
Where the Black Man is King/FlashForward's IR pairing
Zoey and Demetri from FlashForward
Neutral Observer asked me to comment on Gabrielle Union and John Cho’s onscreen romance on FlashForward. He writes:
Asian male bloggers have long compared their dating plight to that of black women, and have long said that maybe they need to expand their dating pool outside the asian female sphere.
Seems, at least on TV, we’re getting a dramatization of this “solution.”
Combine that with how this is a pushing back against the media’s systematic “de-sexualization” of the asian man’s image, and I’m doubly curious to get your thoughts on this.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features, media
Tagged Asian men, black women, interracial dating, IR
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