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: March 2010
America's Real Dream Team
Tom Friedman wrote a pro-immigration column yesterday. He talks about attending an important dinner he recently attended. He reveals the names of the honorees and writes:
Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
Healthcare Passes
Continuing with Happy Week, the House passed the Healthcare Bill tonight. The next step is President Obama, who is certain to sign it. According to the NY Times:
The health care bill would require most Americans to have health insurance, would add 16 million people to the Medicaid rolls and would subsidize private coverage for low- and middle-income people, at a cost to the government of $938 billion over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said.
The bill would require many employers to offer coverage to employees or pay a penalty. Each state would set up a marketplace, or exchange, where consumers without such coverage could shop for insurance meeting federal standards.
Tina Chang, Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
It’s Spring Break, so I’m officially declaring this Happy Week. Everything you see on this blog this whole week will be happy. No sad news, just happy news. Feel free to post/discuss unhappy news, but my blogs will all be cheery, positive, and upbeat. You’ll be able to read this whenever you feel like being happy, from now until Friday.
Saw this in the Times: Tina Chang, the new Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. She’s the fourth person ever to hold the post, and the first woman. She’s also Chinese American, born in Oklahoma, mostly raised in New York, with an MFA from Columbia. I’m not a poet–nor do I read much poetry–but her writing seems good to me. It’s a VERY welcome change from spoken word poetry:
Eli Broad on Education
When you’re a billionaire philanthropist, people listen to what you have to say. bigWOWO is no exception. 
Check out the video above for Eli Broad’s opinions on the American education. Click here and see the first four videos for his views on charity and education. See the video below to hear what Broad is doing with his Superintendents Academy. He’s using his academy to teach superintendents to use executive skills in managing money and people.
Communitarian vs. Libertarian
This Op-Ed by David Brooks is the #1 most popular on the Times site today. In the Op-Ed, Brooks talks about the upsurge in American libertarianism with the Tea Party, and he presents an alternative, more communitarian approach that was posed by British writer Phillip Blond. (See the original Blond article here.)
Blond, according to Brooks, poses the problem:
Blond argues that over the past generation we have witnessed two revolutions, both of which liberated the individual and decimated local associations. First, there was a revolution from the left: a cultural revolution that displaced traditional manners and mores; a legal revolution that emphasized individual rights instead of responsibilities; a welfare revolution in which social workers displaced mutual aid societies and self-organized associations.
Suicides Up At Cornell
Saw this article on suicides at Cornell. Cornell, along with MIT, is famous for suicides. I remember reading a while back that many of these suicides were committed by Asian dudes. It didn’t surprise me, given the high gorges, the cutthroat competitive culture, the almost negligible social network, and, of course, the social trials and tribulations of the Asian male. Anyway, three students (non-Asian, it seems) recently killed themselves, thereby re-igniting the discussions on suicide prevention at Cornell. After the Times article came out, Cornell announced that there were actually six suicides this year.
Getting Schooled by Overpriced Schooling
Thank you, NY Times, for publishing this: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt.
Yup, you’ve seen them before–the advertisements for ITT Tech and Western Culinary Institute (apparently now doing business as Le Cordon Bleu). I’d always wondered about those. At most companies where I’ve worked, there was usually a tech department. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any of our tech guys coming from ITT Tech. Nor have I heard of chefs becoming Jamie Oliver or Kylie Kwong after studying at Western Culinary Institute. Nor have I heard of guys maintaining relationships with what I would consider to be desirable women after taking a pickup class. People think they can pay money to become what they want to be, and schools encourage this thinking with dishonest marketing. What these poor students usually get from these trade schools, according to the article, are big school loans with no career benefits.
Heartthrob Blogger
No, I’m not a heartthrob blogger. But the guy in the picture above, Han Han, is. According to the NY Times, Han Han is a Chinese novelist, race car driver, and blogger extraordinaire in China. He’s riling up the authorities with his blog posts that criticize aspects of Chinese society. According to the article, he has managed to escape government censorship by not directly naming people he criticizes or taking aim at the one party system. Also, he’s financially independent because of his book sales and racing success and therefore less susceptible to financial threats.
Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day! Tomorrow, 3-14 (because of 3.14), is Pi Day, and it is also Einstein’s birthday. As an Asian American blog, we should take this opportunity to crack out the math books to celebrate.
There really is an Asian component to this too. Mr. Chao Lu is the world record holder for reciting pi to the most decimal places (67,890). It took him a year to memorize the digits, and it took 24 hours and four seconds with no sleep or bathroom breaks to actually recite them. 24 hours without taking a leak. That’s some serious chi gung power.
Ricardo Serrano to Die by Lethal Injection
Jimmy and Steve Dang, Rest in Peace
(Pic from here.)
The death penalty. Europe, as far as I know, doesn’t have it. China does it with minimal trial. Texas is the death penalty capital of the country. And here in Oregon, we have it but rarely use it.
Today an Oregon jury sentenced Ricardo Serrano to die by lethal injection. Serrano allegedly murdered an unarmed woman and her two children in their own home. It was among the most heinous crimes I’ve ever heard of, and it hits close to home–very close to home. Melody Dang’s house is around a ten minute jog from my workplace. After the murder, her house fall into disrepair. It looks better now–someone has fixed it up–but I think of the screaming, bleeding mother and children whenever I see it.
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Tagged crime, Jimmy Dang, Melody Dang, Ricardo Serrano, Steven Dang
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