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- 29-year-old novelist transcends race and culture (6)
- Chr..: I saw this guy in NYC’s most famous used bookshop a few days ago. The Asian Man Invisibility syndrome...
- huh: “a chinese american male getting fame for writing about being black in mississippi? sounds more like race...
- King: it’s a very difficult thing to do and be successful at. You have to give this guy props for some serious...
- The ethnic media’s war on minority personal responsibility (5)
- Teen invents supercapacitor phone charger (3)
- Tommy: Damn! Dr. Z beat me to the graphene super capacitor. If you think $50,000 is a lot some dudes in Europe got a...
- John Doe: Sounds cool. Especially for such a young student. Some things are not clear from the video however. It...
- Dr. Z: I don’t know what the capacity limit is, but if it could be used for cars, we could see more electric...
- The Association of Asian American Studies and the boycott of Israeli institutions (18)
- John Doe: ^Yes Chr, I do know. Given all that doesn’t it make sense that Europe bear the burden of creating the...
- Chr..: Do you guys not realize that the State of Israel was created because of European anti-Semitism, and its...
- John Doe: Raguel, You beat me to it. Noah, your boat got lost. Your canned answer belongs in the thread extolling the...
- An American Sin by Frederick Su (Review of an Independently Published Novel) (172)
- Raguel: Very good, Pozhal and Chr. Now hug each other with tears welling in your eyes like long lost lovers, and...
- Chr..: @ Pozhal Your observation seems to be inaccurate with Asian Women who are with White men. A lot of those men...
- Pozhal: Women in general have more STDs than men because of the 80-20 theory, which states that roughly speaking, 20%...
- New study says tiger parenting doesn’t work (17)
- bigWOWO: Wow, that’s some story. I need to check out that documentary. I think one important point in this...
- Danny Lee: A bit late to the thread here, but to add to the sentiment that “Tiger Parenting” is very...
- Facts be known: @ Thak: “Not to be petty but China placed number one followed by Korea and Finland. (jus’...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (481)
- burrdi hurr: ITT: Insecure white guy, butthurt because of scientific racism. Featured word: SCIENTIFIC. You act like...
- Why do we still have the Second Amendment? (22)
- Asian Racism and the “Asian of Reason” (218)
- R: Today I learned: Asian dudes – especially Asian dudes whose name is ‘Asian dude’ seriously kick...
- Chinese elites sending their kids to NYC prep schools (14)
- bigWOWO: It’s the rule, dude. Say what you say and say who said it. No need to act like you have friends who...
- bigWOWO: No, I didn’t say you were David Duke. I said you need to stop with the sock puppets.
- Amused: So I’m David Duke because I point out facts that getting a seat in an American university can be...
- Asian American Generational changes, and how the IR debate is a Generation-X thing (123)
- Chr..: “unless gen y/z make an effort to create a genuine sense of racial politics as a foundation for asian...
- politicallycorrect: @Second Choice what about viets, filipinos and hmong, not east asian enough for you? and whats...
- Second Choice: I could see “solidarity” between East Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese).
- American Jobs and India (50)
- John Doe: “Why would anyone leave their country to work for less money than they could make in their own...
- King: Ah, silly me! Thanks John. My bad, Notty! But I think I’d still argue that in most cases, if you remove...
- John Doe: @King, “Exactly – but among other things.” notty was answering about H1B working conditions in...
- Osaka mayor defends Japan’s wartime sex crimes (31)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Second Choice: That makes sense. Of course, logically it also means that no one should be able...
- Second Choice: @Saskai Ken Someone who has a white father/mother will never be able to understand what it means to be...
- Raguel: The quality of the debate in here leads me to believe that significant sections of this blog readership are...
- First person account of the trial of Specialist Ryan Offutt–by Mitchell Zhang (13)
- N: @cavscout Why are men in the military likes to sexually assault women so much?
- kronic: Here in New York, Italians, Jews, Russians, Irish, Blacks, Polish, as well as many other groups, like to hang...
- Second Choice: *neighborhoods
- Finally, a Community Victory! (34)
- Bint: Asians are coming back!! http://itsmichelleguo.wordpres s.com/about/
- Bint: That’d explain http://tinypic.com/r/akx4k8/5
- Sasaki Ken: How the hell should this be celebrated? Asian females marrying Asian males should be EXPECTED. You guys...
- Amazing rescue in Cleveland (8)
- bigWOWO: I haven’t seen it, Tommy! I ought to check it out! It’s horrible that she gives advice if...
- Tommy: LOL Byron have you seen James Randi’s ted talk? It’s almost 20 minutes of the guy sh*tting on the...
- Pat: Charles is a hero. love his colorful language. great story teller. when listened him, i felt like i was there.
- Tsarnaev brothers spare Asian American hostage (14)
- Sasaki Ken: Try and set up a meeting in America? Useless. White America still holds all the power and all the nukes....
- Chr..: You should go out there and change the world, instead of complaining about these problems that have been...
- Sasaki Ken: I find that it depends on the type of Russian. The more anglo or more Americanized and big city they are,...
- Chinese movie tastes not always in line with Hollywood (5)
- Sasaki Ken: They are doing it because they are realizing that Hollywood is just a bunch of pro-western imperialist,...
- Vote in Malaysia (9)
- Eurasian Sensation: ^No argument that Singapore is a far better place to live than the Philippines. And I’d...
- Pat: I have visited every country that you have mentioned. When you see abject poverty, democracy is farthest from...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Pat: Define “least corrupt”. The Singapore government may be doing a fairly good...
- “Brofiling” (3)
- Kids and weightlifting (18)
- Sasaki Ken: To promote growth, they can even do pullups and chinups using a chain + weight hanging from their waist,...
- Sasaki Ken: As an avid weightlifter, powerlifter, and bodybuilder aside from being a martial artist, I would most...
- Bint: Let me say this after 15 comments here. I still do believe that weightlifting before puberty stunt...
- 29-year-old novelist transcends race and culture (6)
Author Archives: bigWOWO
Teen invents supercapacitor phone charger
Photo: KPIX
I’m surprised that tech innovation has recently shown no signs of slowing down. It’s really quite amazing that people haven’t stopped inventing. In the latest round, California teenager Eesha Khare won a $50,000 prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Her invention? A supercapacitor phone charger than can fully charge in as little as 20 seconds. Imagine having devices that would charge that quickly. No more fighting for outlets at Starbucks. No more forgetting to charge your digital phone overnight. I don’t know what the capacity limit is, but if it could be used for cars, we could see more electric vehicles.
80-year-old Japanese man climbs Mt. Everest
Photo credit: Miura Dolphins Co. Ltd./AP
See here: ‘On Top Of The World’ At 80: Japanese Climber Summits Everest. Yuichiro Miura has now become the oldest person to ever climb Everest. A Nepalese climber, Min Bahadur Sherchan, who is 81, is now trying to break Miura’s record. I’ve heard it’s a pretty tough climb, and it costs about $40,000 a shot. Props to them for pushing their limits.
The ethnic media’s war on minority personal responsibility
It’s graduation time, and just a few days ago, President Obama gave a commencement speech at Morehouse College, a historically black college. In his speech, he urged graduates not to make excuses and to set a good example. Michelle Obama gave a similar speech at Bowie State, where she urged black graduates to seek to become professionals rather than celebrities. This is the same advice that many Asian parents give to their kids. You would think that these kinds of values would be applauded, that people would clamor to hear the advice of people like the Obamas who have succeeded and are now in positions of power. Here are some of Obama’s words:
Music and the people
Photo credit: Alamy. From the Guardian.
Here’s an interesting news item from the NY Times, not Asian American related, but we can think about it from an AA perspective. In Northern Mali, Islamic militants announced that they are banning music. I had to check it out to see if it was true, and it looks like it is; see the Guardian. According to the NY Times article:
Osaka mayor defends Japan’s wartime sex crimes
Photo of Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto, (AP Photo/Kyodo News)
It’s really gotten out of hand. In the latest flap over Japanese war crimes during WWII, Osaka mayor and co-leader of the conservative Japan Restoration party (not just some dude off the street) Toru Hashimoto defended Japan’s sexual enslavement of 200,000 Asian women: Japanese mayor: Wartime sex slaves were necessary.
Toru Hashimoto, the young, brash mayor of Osaka who is co-leader of an emerging conservative political party, also said that U.S. troops currently based in southern Japan should patronize the local sex industry more to help reduce rapes and other assaults.
Chinese elites sending their kids to NYC prep schools
Photo credit: Ángel Franco/The New York Times
According to the NY Times, more and more wealthy Chinese are sending their kids to expensive New York City prep schools.
Yijia Shi, a freshman, wanted to increase her chances of an acceptance letter from Brown University. And Meng Yuan, a junior, was seeking Western-style independence, not to mention better shopping. When she is not heading to track practice or doing her homework, she is combing Bergdorf Goodman for Louis Vuitton limited edition handbags and relishing in the $295 tasting menu at the celebrated Columbus Circle restaurant Per Se.
New study says tiger parenting doesn’t work
Amy Chua (from Forbes article)
There was an article in Forbes by a white woman named Susan Adams whose son goes to Stuy, where most of the kids are Asian: Tiger Moms Don’t Raise Superior Kids, Says New Study. She wrote the article and read Amy Chua’s Tiger Mom book because she questioned whether her kid would lose out to the Asian students. Now, according to the article, there is evidence that ought to allay her fear. Su Yeong Kim, a professor at the University of Texas, had been working on the same topic before Amy Chua’s book came out, and she has just published her results. According to her, Tiger parenting doesn’t work. The Forbes article says:
29-year-old novelist transcends race and culture
Bill Cheng. Credit: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
I’ve always thought it cool when writers can go beyond their own personal experience. This NY Times article is about Bill Cheng, “a 29-year-old Chinese-American from Queens who has never set foot in Mississippi,” who has just written a book about life in Mississippi. The book is called Southern Cross the Dog. It’s about an African American man in the early twentieth century living in the Deep South. It has received high praise from Southerners and African Americans. Bill Cheng has never even been to Mississippi, but it seems people are saying he portrayed the experience perfectly.
Amazing rescue in Cleveland
Not Asian related, but tangentially race-related, so let’s jump in!
Check out the story of the rescue in Cleveland. Three women were locked up and kept in captivity for about ten years by three brothers. That’s some mighty scary stuff. One of them was kidnapped when she was just 14. They’ve arrested the three men allegedly responsible. One of the women, Amanda Berry, who was kidnapped when she was 17, caught the attention of two men who rescued them (see one of the men in his own words in the video above) and was finally freed. After ten years! In addition to the heroism of Charles Ramsey, the gentleman above, I’m amazed at Amanda Berry’s resilience–she still knew who she was and that she had to get out after ten years.
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The Association of Asian American Studies and the boycott of Israeli institutions
Photo credit: Reuters
I recently received an e-mail from Dr. Jonathan Marks, who wrote an article in Commentary Magazine about the Association of Asian American Studies and its boycott of Israeli academic institutions. I became aware of this boycott through FB since I’m FB friends with lots of Asian Americans in academia. Dr. Marks mentioned in his e-mail that he was surprised that there seemed to be a complete lack of discussion regarding the resolution by the AAAS. If you read his Commentary article, he is also (rightfully) surprised by that they would even have a resolution on the Israel/Palestine conflict:
