The Conversation
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- Siegfried: If it was a Russian or any other white man who told blacks”to go back to Africa”, it would...
- Raguel: I saw that Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing” years ago but still can’t understand it.
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- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
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- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (7)
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- Raguel: Following the temporary shelving of SOPA and PIPA in the long line of net neutrality battles, the feds and...
- Chr..: “Asian American men have to get more involved, not less. It’s a civic responsibility, and you have to...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
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- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
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- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
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- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
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- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
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- Raguel: Smiley tests 8 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
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- N: What’s your opinion on Yundi Li and Yoyo Ma.
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- trolldetector: ^ i’d agree with that. but i wouldnt call them ‘idiots’, just misguided. crazy media...
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- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
I wouldn’t say...
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- Raguel: So is that the reasoning for why you don’t need the right to due process? Are you some kind of fucking...
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Category Archives: Activism
Activism is as activism does
Camila Vallejo Dowling
This is (was?) an activist blog, and I saw these two interesting activism articles in the Times this week:
1. Just Don’t Call Her Che: an article about Camila Vallejo Dowling, who is leading hundreds of people for education reform in Chile. According to the article, she beats senators in debates on prime time TV and leads protests with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. According to the article, she’s the world’s most famous student leader and has the governmment going crazy over how to deal with the issues. Chile, according to the article, is economically successful, and she has still managed to pull people away from their daily lives and get an audience.
Reverse Racebending
I heard about Quentin Lee’s Today Has Been Weird from AngryAsianMan. It’s a short film, and it’s good: see the entire short movie above. It is based on a real life incident where a young 19 year Asian American boy named Simon Sek Man Ng blogged about his sister’s ex-boyfriend knocking on his door. The boyfriend ended up killing both Simon and his sister. The police used to information from his blog to find his killer.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, media
Tagged Asian women, crime, interracial relationships, White men
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A Female Take on Invisible Asian American Heterosexual Men
"Evil. Not hot and horny."
Akrypti from 8Asians wrote a piece in response to my International Examiner article called The Perfect Villain: Straight Asian Men. In her piece, she talks about her perspective as an Asian American woman. It’s a great piece. She argues that Asian women often don’t see Asian men as invisible, but instead often see us as evil or take us less seriously than other groups.
There were a few points that I really appreciated.
1. Akrypti mentions Frank Chin and Minority Militant, and how people didn’t take their points seriously. She also mentions that the same thing takes place with the IR issues.
Everyone Wants To Live Like Americans
This is my 1,000th bigWOWO post.
Of all the afterthoughts following the death of Steve Jobs and the legacy of Apple, the most interesting one I read was AskAKorean’s Can Korea Be Truly Creative? In the post, he writes about how Steve Jobs inspired Koreans to ask each other if their country could be as creative as Apple.
It’s long for a blog post, but give it a read if you have time. The conclusion “The Korean” reaches is that Korea is already creative. The reason Apple was able to do what it did, the Korean speculates, is due in large part to the fact that Apple is an American company. He writes:
The Asian Guy in Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Check out Jeff Yang’s latest column here. Some of you Asian American blogosphere experts probably heard about the protest against the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory’s screening of Breakfast at Tiffany’s. As you Bruce Lee fans know, Breakfast has a scene with Mickey Rooney portraying Mr. Yunioshi and acting like a stereotype (there was that scene in Dragon where Bruce and Linda go to see the movie together). With the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservatory’s screening, some Asian Americans have opted to protest.
Re-Programming Your Mind
Last week, I got an interesting e-mail from a young man who was thinking of signing up for a bootcamp with the ABCs of Attraction. The young man had read some of my posts on PUA. He asked my opinion, and I referred him to some of the other posts that I had written. He wrote back, said that he had heard some of my podcasts and read more, and in the end, he decided not to go through with it.
Posted in Activism, Asian American
Tagged coaching, interracial relationships, motivation, PUA
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The Two Percent Solution and Building Asian American Arts
Fellow blogger and newspaper columnist Jeff Yang has an interesting article in the SF Chron: Looking for a “Hangover’ Cure. He writes about The Hangover 2, Ken Jeong, Asian stereotypes, and the dismal state of Asian American cinema and how hard it is to make a living making Asian American films. He writes about how we need Asian Americans to support Asian American art. He links Justin Lin’s YOMYOMF essay on how he’s lost money on Asian American films, as well as Oliver Wang’s Two Percent Project, which Jeff Yang describes as follows:
Father School
Thanks to Hau, for posting this article: the Korean Dads’ 12-Step Program. Thanks to Linda and King for commenting on it. Thanks to KM for an article by Koream on the same topic a couple years back: Schooling Fathers. Both articles discuss Father School, a cultural import from South Korea that teaches Korean men to be better fathers. Based on Biblical evangelism and self-help principles, Father School has been exploding in recent years, as more Korean men are trying to learn to become better fathers who are more emotionally connected to their wives and children.
Dear Sophia (Here’s your chance to praise Google!)
Thanks, Nate, for sending the video above from Geekdad. It’s an ad by Google to show how people are using technology in their lives. The video, “Dear Sophia,” tells the story of an Asian American father named “Daniel Lee,” who sets up an e-mail account for his baby daughter Sophia and sends her pictures, videos, and e-mails. It’s part of a larger campaign to show how people are using internet technology. From the Google Chrome YouTube channel:
More and more, the web is simply just part of your life and helps you get things done. See how people are using the web to do amazing things. The web is what you make of it.
Blue Collar vs. White Collar Values
The Alpha has a post here about entitlement, and how he would like his daughter to be able to articulate her needs to adults. Alpha references Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, where he reports that Gladwell says that middle class kids have an advantage over working class kids because they know to speak up. Alpha quotes Gladwell:
“Even in fourth grade, middle class children appeared to be acting on their own behalf to gain advantage. They made special requests of teachers and doctors to adjust procedures to accommodate their desires.”
