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- NSA leaker (33)
- N: Ignore my post above. Writing on a phone between traffic lights are not a great idea. @king My point is, we should...
- N: @king You’re missing my point completely. Can’t you see it’s tge lack of critique and...
- King: Hey there Mojo: I’m not so much arguing that the government is either monolith or that it is dead set...
- Rupert Murdoch files for divorce (14)
- DAMM: Wendy’s brilliant career; each guy more richer than the last.
- Elagabalus: I guess the term ‘Yellow Cab’ wouldn’t apply here. I think ‘Yellow Limo’...
- N: After Jake Cherry and Murdoch, the next batter up is Tony Blair? It would be hilarious if true.
- Supercapitalist on Hulu (16)
- N: @indieking Indie films sucks in general, the majority are films that suck so badly that it’s not worth the...
- indieking: AA indie scene sucks, indie film from AA who goes back to HK to get support sucks, so how are you going to...
- Dman: Instead watch Byron Bigwowo favorite Asian American playwright David Henry Hwang semi-autobiographical teleplay...
- Where are you from? (11)
- bigWOWO: Here’s Ken Tanaka’s follow up: It’s pretty funny! It reminds me of Smelly Guys Is A Bad...
- K. Wallace: I once asked my lab partner in college where she was from (she happened to be asian american) At first I...
- John Doe: Along with all the where you are from questions, I wonder what would have been the reaction if the leaker...
- China’s lack of branding (or Universalism Pt. 2) (21)
- Bint: Building up a strong economy and branding take a whole lot of time, years and even decades. Among these two,...
- Nottyboy: I don’t think that quality assurance scandals like the ones about the toxic baby formula help. I...
- Ei: Chinese love both European and American cars. They are viewed as high quality and safer. Japanese cars are not...
- Asian Men, Black Men, and the Competition for White Women (872)
- King: Well, it’s an interesting idea… but you do realize that you’re taking an article that is...
- Thak: @2nd Choice, This is true. White women like to comfort/delude themselves with the false belief that Asian men...
- Second Choice: That’s HER opinion on why she believes no man has asked her out. She doesn’t even get hit...
- 29-year-old novelist transcends race and culture (13)
- Pozhal: King, No, most authors do not become face recognizable until they’ve had their movies made into...
- King: I think that most authors do not become face recognizable until they have had several best sellers.
- Chr..: “While I don’t doubt that “Asian Man Invisibility Syndrome” exists, very few people in America would be...
- Interview with Darren Leung about The Grandmaster (6)
- Fast&FuriousDrew: LOL @ kobukson, robocop, and King.
- King: ^ me too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =z-q29hbEP04
- robocop: @kobukson I’d buy that for a dollar
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (482)
- King: ^ Ha! Yes, using the word “Scientific” in the title means that it can’t be possibly be...
- burrdi hurr: ITT: Insecure white guy, butthurt because of scientific racism. Featured word: SCIENTIFIC. You act like...
- “Want an ethical career? Become a banker.” (3)
- Teen invents supercapacitor phone charger (16)
- bigWOWO: John, I agree. My hope is that these cars will get better in time. I remember when the pocket calculator...
- John Doe: “but hey if that doesn’t work there’s been an idea of a thorium power plant for a while now:”...
- John Doe: Tommy, If I remember by college science class correctly, that video just describes a basic hydrogen fuel...
- Black man denied entry to Asian club in NYC (269)
- We Sinners by Hanna Pylvainen (Review) (5)
- bigWOWO: BTW, I LOVED the last chapter, even though some people thought it was hard to relate to the rest of the...
- bigWOWO: Auvo T, That’s awesome! I think you’ll like the book. It’s specifically about...
- Auvo T: So we are mislead, Rovaniemi is the name of the family, not the town (in Finland) where they live. The book...
- Osaka mayor defends Japan’s wartime sex crimes (32)
- N: On the other hand, how many of you guys actually remember Hatoyama Yukio, an ex-Prime Minister in Japan that...
- New study says tiger parenting doesn’t work (19)
- Chr..: “Amy Chua’s method is not recognizably Chinese or very Asian, sure she has the face of one but...
- tone: Just to interrupt for one moment here, I’ve tried to stress this to many people but nobody seems to...
- bigWOWO: Wow, that’s some story. I need to check out that documentary. I think one important point in this...
- White History Month (3)
- The Asian Female Celebrity Club (AFCC) Embargo (280)
- smh: You know…Zhang Ziyi has consistently dated Chinese guys. Vivi Nevo was the only white guy she dated afaik....
- The ethnic media’s war on minority personal responsibility (8)
- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, I totally agree. To be quite honest, for me, as a person who has been following race since high...
- Eurasian Sensation: Seems like there are a few different issues at play here. I think a lot of people in public...
- Lingyai: Yeah I wanted to comment but ES said pretty much what I would. Thanks for saving me the time
- The Association of Asian American Studies and the boycott of Israeli institutions (19)
- N: @john doe Anyone who thinks the way that israel is created is acceptable should be happy to give back New Nexico,...
- 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...
- 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%...
- Why do we still have the Second Amendment? (22)
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Author Archives: bigWOWO
White History Month
Photo credit: HBO
Abagond linked up this Salon article from Kartina Richardson, who is half-Chinese/Malaysian and half-black: How can white Americans be free?. I particularly liked what Abagond says here about The White Default:
It is where White History Month is the month that never ends.
It is where White Entertainment Television is always watched but never seen.
It is where White American ethnic studies becomes “English” and “history” at high school.
And I like what Richardson says here:
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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