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- 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)
Author Archives: bigWOWO
San Diego student left alone in cell for five days
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This has got to be one of the craziest stories ever: DEA ignored my cries: student. The Drug Enforcement Agency arrested UC San Diego student Daniel Chong for marijuana (Daniel Chong, not Tommy), and then they put him alone in a holding cell and forgot about him for five days. He was starving and thirsty and drank his own urine to survive. According to the video, he was handcuffed at the time (although I wonder how one might open one’s zipper to piss in a cup with one’s hands tied behind one’s back…is it possible to bring one’s hands in front through skillful maneuvering?)
Americans Eat the World’s Cheapest Food
I’ve been really busy with non-Asian American related activism, which is why I’ve been posting less frequently. It’s hard work. My activism has been food-related, so I thought I’d shoot out a non-Asian blog post about food and the crap we throw at our kids.
Here’s an article: Americans Eat the Cheapest Food in the World. For those of you who have kids, you know that there’s a divergent range of prices of food. You can get expensive organic chicken breast for $8/lb., or you can eat McNuggets off the dollar menu. Most people opt for the dollar menu, hence the explosion of cheap food and all kinds of health problems in the United States. But hey, we’re saving money (and spending it on healthcare later).
Creative Monopolists
David Brooks
David Brooks writes about Peter Thiel: The Creative Monopoly. He writes:
One of his core points is that we tend to confuse capitalism with competition. We tend to think that whoever competes best comes out ahead. In the race to be more competitive, we sometimes confuse what is hard with what is valuable. The intensity of competition becomes a proxy for value.
In fact, Thiel argues, we often shouldn’t seek to be really good competitors. We should seek to be really good monopolists. Instead of being slightly better than everybody else in a crowded and established field, it’s often more valuable to create a new market and totally dominate it. The profit margins are much bigger, and the value to society is often bigger, too.
Asian husband-wife team on Shark Tank
Lim family
The spoiler will be hidden in my spoiler plugin, so read on without fear! There was an Asian husband and wife team on Friday’s episode of Shark Tank, the show where entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to rich people. You can see it on Hulu (Season 3, episode 12). The entire episode was actually one of the better ones, as the sharks went against each other several times. I think this was the first time I’ve seen an AM/AF couple on the show.
Anyway, the couple above, Hanna and Mark Lim, own a business called Lollacup. You can learn more about the couple from Koream:
Whiteness and American TV
Girls
I no longer have cable, so I couldn’t watch Lena Dunham’s “Girls” if I wanted to. And even if I had cable, I’ve never had HBO. So I won’t pretend to know what the show itself is all about.
But I do understand how people are angry that once again, a major hit show is all White. There’s a good article about it here: Broadcasting a World of Whiteness. It references last week’s news about two black men suing the Bachelor:
American woman becomes hero to abused women in China
Kim Lee
Saw this story: American woman Kim Lee unlikely hero to millions of battered wives in China. On the one hand, major props to Kim Lee for stepping out. I’ve heard (from my own grandparents, no less!) that the culture in China is crazy in many ways, and that there are no rights. She’s done a brave, brave thing by stepping out, especially against a rich dude like her husband.
On the other hand, two things bother me.
First, it feels like the media is trying once again to pin the tail on the Asian male. From the article:
Posted in Activism, media, News
Tagged China, domestic violence, interracial relationships
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Banana Conference renamed V3con, held Aug 25, 2012 in LA
From Gil Asakawa’s blog: V3con is the evolution of the Banana Asian American Bloggers’ Conference. “Banana” is now “V3con,” which stands for Vision Visibility Voice. It’ll be August 25th, 2012 at the Japanese American National Museum in LA with an August 24th opening at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena. I like the new name, and I’m glad to see Lac Su’s and Steve Nguyen’s vision growing. It’s also great that Joz and Gil are now involved.
Suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination
In terms of trashiness, I think the Bachelor is just one step above the Jerry Springer Show. It preys on people’s emotions, and it throws attention towards the worst parts of humanity. That said, I think it would be great if there were minorities in the main role. Which is why I think it’s good that two African American men are suing the Bachelor for racial discrimination.
Johnson alleges in the complaint that when he went to a casting call for “The Bachelor,” he was denied the typical application process. He said his application materials were taken by an employee of the defendants named in the suit; the same wasn’t done for other apparent non-black applicants he saw.
The True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun (Discussion/Review)
bigWOWO rating: Literary Fiction Gold
ChineseMom recommended this book here. She recommended a deeper discussion of the book here.
Okay, bigWOWO got robbed! I bought this book online sight unseen, and it turns out that the edition I bought was downloaded from the internet and republished as a bound copy. No joke…they actually put that verbiage in the copyright! There were typos galore, and…I paid like 8 bucks for this thing when I could’ve gotten it for free. You can’t trust no one these days. Don’t do as I did. You can get it all for free here or here (it’s exactly the same as my book edition with the same typos). Or better yet, spend a few bucks and get a real translation.
Advertisers take notice of Asian Americans
Great article from the Alpha Asian’s FB page: Why Asian American spending power catches advertisers. Check out the video feature. I’ve noticed too that Asian Americans in advertising seems to be on the rise. Half a trillion in spending power is nothing to sneeze at. I like what they say about luxury items. Some people say such a focus is elitist; I think such a focus could mean one is on the cutting edge.
In other high-end news, luxury stores are also hitting up the rich Chinese tourist market: Luxury stores pull out Mandarin phrase books to make the sale.
Posted in Asian American, Strategy
Tagged Asian American, Chinese, money, spending power
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