Kyung Yoon, executive director of the Korean American Community Foundation
…and it’s not just little acts of philanthropy either.
Lulu C. Wang, a money manager and philanthropist in New York, and her husband, Anthony Wang, established themselves in the vanguard of this new wave of Asian-American philanthropy when they donated $25 million to Wellesley College, her alma mater, in 2000.
“With this new display of philanthropy, there are many more who are looked at with great interest by these boards,” said Ms. Wang, who was born in New Delhi and is of Chinese descent, and now sits on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum, Columbia Business School and other institutions.
Another Met trustee who is Chinese-American, Oscar L. Tang, said, “There’s a group of us who all know each other and support each other in this tendency.”
Among Mr. Tang’s contributions have been major gifts to Phillips Academy Andover, including a donation of $25 million in 2008, and Skidmore College, as well as the Met.
Looks like $25 million is the common gift among the uncommonly financially successful. I’ve always thought philanthropy was a worthy aim. Make your fortune, and give it back. 
By the way, New Yorkers probably remember Kyung Yoon from the news. She was a big deal for my grandmother back then. “It’s Kyung Yoon!”
These fundraising efforts of Asian Americans prove that the monolithic Asian American identity label is just one big lie, and this takes us a step back when it comes to human evolution. Those generous individuals mentioned in NYT article are either giving money to their specific ethnic affliation group or to mainstream White institutions, leaving a void for any pan Asian philanthropy. You figure that we have a young generation of Asian Americans who are seeing pass the ethnic label, and can easily identified themselves with other Asian Americans regardless of backround, that at least, an “Asian American Foundation” would be formed and mentioned in the article. Their money would be better spent to foster Asian American empowerment and progress, as opposed to some ethnic organization with petty self interests. Are the needs of Chinese Americans, Korean Americans, Japanese Americans, Vietnamese Americans and others all that different as to justify their balkanization? With regards to those so called unique needs of each group, which are mostly prevalent in the non-English speaking demographic, there was always the local association, church, temple and others to provide guidance and assistance.
chr.. snore…..
[Deleted. You NEED to start thinking positively. It's killing YOU, and it's boring US.--bww]
Why can’t I post an alternative view of Asian American issues. Why does everything on this blog have to be seen with the rose colored glasses?
I think my post is relevant and I will post it again. But I can’t stop you from deleting it again.
[deleted, with bigWOWO's translation. Chr basically just wrote: "I've got HERPES!"]
Bigwowo deleted: [deleted, with bigWOWO's translation. Chr basically just wrote: "I've got HERPES!"]
LOL! Now it has become sort of like a game. See what asinine things Chr posts before Bigwowo deletes.
For a guy who despises Asians who fit into the supposed negative stereotypes, his being so lonely, crying for attention, not leaving is the epitome.
Bigwowo actually made Chr’s posts interesting now cause of what he writes explaining why he deleted.
What a disgusting piece of shit.
Never forget, Chr is a type of person who sees all consideration as a weakness and a chance to exploit.
His modus operandi when faced with an ultimatum is to go as limp as possible to lull people into a false sense of security, before offending them once more.
Raguel: What a disgusting piece of shit.
Never forget, Chr is a type of person who sees all consideration as a weakness and a chance to exploit.
His modus operandi when faced with an ultimatum is to go as limp as possible to lull people into a false sense of security, before offending them once more.
The only problem I have with Ms. Wang in the article above is she donated money to the Columbia Business school that created such Asian Turd Heads like Chr.
That’s the truth. The guy just like in life has not one friend in the world. He wasn’t always like this though. In 2011, he just was posting, showing his obsession with PUA scammer Kezia Noble who I think he believes is Greek and didn’t realize her supposed liking of Asian dudes was just some bullshit PUA marketing thing to get guys like him excited (She said in an interview she doesn’t date Asian guys but her sister does, nice passing the buck!) and stealth marketing for girdle wearing Asian Doughboy (using all those strong words like empowerment, etc didn’t stop those guys from refusing that 2nd serving of food) Just check out his posts from this thread and see if I’m mistaken.
http://www.bigwowo.com/2011/09/first-move-advantage/#comment-14626
Wait, maybe Kezia’s rumor being exposed is what got him so angry at everyone.
Aight, so Chr, I’m just going to delete all your non-positive posts. Post 20 positive posts. Please. That’s all I’m asking. I know you can do it. It’ll be better for you. It’ll be better for everyone else here. Just do it. I’m really really tired of you dragging down every single post I make. That’s the truth. If for no one else, do it for me.
See, the reason niggas find Asian-Americans to be weak is because they keep trying to be the “good guy” even when niggas is stepping over their bitch asses. Like what is this “positive thinking” bullshit with this Chr nigga? Y’all been tolerating his trollin ass for like a year, taking him at his word when he says shit like he graduated from Columbia or that he’s some Asian nigga. The nigga is some bitch ass white boy, and he’s trollin all y’all niggas. He posts under the name “JustSpeculating” at that nigga Half Sigma’s site, where he admits to being a white boy, and he trolls here under “Chr” (watch this nigga try to deny it, but I got good sources, baby). Every time I visit this site, I watch this nigga Chr write a bunch of bullshit, and then I watch all ya’ll niggas take his shit seriously. I thought Asian niggas were supposed to have high IQs, but you let this bitch ass troll you for like a motherfuckin year without callin his ass out, nigga whaaaaaat.
Bitch please. If this place was run by niggas or Jews (Zionists) and someone like Chr was posting that shit, niggas would be all like “Get out” on day 1 and woulda banned his bitch ass instead of tolerating him for a year. Y’all ain’t “taking the high road,” even though y’all probably rationalizing it like that. You’re just being pushovers and doormats for little bitches and it reflects badly on y’all.
Now, I know I’m being tough on ya’ll niggas. But I want you to know that I’m doing all of it in y’all’s interest. If you want to “empower” Asian-Americans (lmao), y’all can’t be pushovers. Like that nigga Confucius said: “Don’t return good for evil, cause that makes you a lil bitch. Return justice for injustice and good for good.”
My shit isn’t get posted nigga what.
[Deleted: Be positive. Just 20 positive posts. If you don't like the people in the article, post about some philanthropists that you do like.]
I have no idea what KKK is talking about. Not sure where the creative use of the modified n-word for people of all races is coming from. But it did remind me of this video:
BigWowo, you would never make it in the hood. Just saying.
KKK – it was supposed to be funny right? Is this part of your lame stand up routine? I don’t remember anyone of us actually taking Chr seriously as you say. Chr is our comedic relief…but sometimes it does get a little exasperating. One can only roll their eyes so much.
and your post sounds like some puerto rican girl from the Bronx…. like when Dee from It’s sunny in philadelphia does an impression of a PR girl from the Bx. lol. But not as bad as Shenaynay from Martin.
Anyways, self-interests aren’t petty. I think self-interests binds a lot of ppl together more strongly than, lets just say, just being “Asian-American.”
Nigga, please. I’d feel pretty gay if I had to write like some whitebread, chickenshit motherfucka for this thick ass crowd (and I ain’t sayin y’all got big asses).
“Anyways, self-interests aren’t petty. I think self-interests binds a lot of ppl together more strongly than, lets just say, just being “Asian-American.”
Really? Go read the comments again from the NYT article about Asian American philanthropy. Some of the commentators there said it’s a good thing to see these different “foundations” being formed to serve the unique needs of the different groups of Asian Americans. What unique needs?
Do you think American Born Joe Kim, Joe Wang and Joe Nguyen, all have unique needs, where as separate foundations should be created to cater each of them exclusively?
Further, raising several millions to form an organization that sponsor activities which could be done cheaply at a family outing seems a bit of an overstretch.
Funny, I don’t know any Black people who talk like that…
What Klan sounds like is a White person’s idea of what Black people talk like, after having listened to Black rappers being interviewed on MTV.
Linda/King,
I do remember that there was some Asian dude at summer camp during high school who tried to talk the way black people supposedly talk. He thought it was funny then; we thought it was lame. You know how some jokes get lame with time. Well, maybe the moral this time is that lame jokes sometimes stay lame.
http://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/mock-ebonics/
Chr,
I didn’t delete your last comment, but are you incapable of doing 20 positive posts? I haven’t even seen one yet.
Okay, I guess you cross posted with me, Chr, and I did delete your last comment. Think of something positive and original to say.
Sigh, just like Asian-Americans to be stressin over the fact that I’m a hood nigga [1] rather than the fact that this site lets itself get trolled by a cracker ass cracker pretending to be an asian nigga for a year, takes him at his word, and then . . . makes him do “positive thinking,” which embarrasses you all more than it does his bitch ass.
References
[1] Zoe, Gorilla. “Hood Nigga.” Welcome to the Hood.
What kind of sucker needs to play an elaborate game of charades just to say what he wants to say?
Retard
This blog has veered away from discussion of Asian American issues and it is attributed to certain distractions. Hopefully what Bigwowo is doing will remedy that and we could all go back to discussing things.
http://www.facebook.com/notes/abcs-of-attraction/dear-apb-nyc-is-the-place-where-all-the-glories-of-bitter-asian-men-are-found/10151628496111562
Chr/JustSpeculating/New Asian Yorker trolls a lot of sites.
lol “Sir.”
It sure sounds like him but it could be just a part of the Chr marketing package the guru asks him to do so he can sell his products. Not once in the reply do you see anything useful. All it says is please take our bootcamps and you will get out of this rut. Have a look and see all those who have taken our bootcamps and are in a better situation. (really? where are their hot wives, hot girlfriends they were promised?, why are most of these guys in the same predicament they were before they took a bootcamp?) Yeah, those gurus really do care about Asian people. Stupid stuff. I love how the company parades around a very average looking white girl like she’s some sort of Goddess. What makes her an expert on Asian American Issues? It’s as bad anyone not Asian who feel cause they are dating an Asian person, they are now experts. Don’t mean to be insulting but I don’t like it when someone uses other’s misery as a way to make money for themselves.
That link to their message board, looks pretty dead, not many people posting at all. I stand by my prediction that PUA, will be forgotten about in 2 years.
I’m sure Chr is grinding at the teeth not to be able to reply to this post. We’ll see the sock puppets soon.
If that letter was real and genuine, it just goes to show you how desperate PUAs are to get people to buy their camps. They get trolled and don’t even know it.
I meant real and genuine by not something the PUA company made up themselves. It is obviously a troll (Chr) who wants attention. The letter itself can’t be the truth. It’s just written to draw up reactions.
I think that this new philanthropy is good. I for one have heard a few stories both from Asian Americans, Asian Asian in America and non-Asians (I think that covers everyone, LOL) of how stingy Asians can be. I always had this impression that they would be somewhere down the line of people willing to donate (on a large scale not just money wise but institution/organization not just to church or the small business in the neighborhood).
That kid in the foreground, in the blue looks like he much rather be somewhere else. LOL
I posted something completely relevant to the topic. Yeah.