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- Eurasian Sensation: @ N: Why, because I’m half white I want to defend European colonialism?
- Raguel: JStele, you’re right about intermingling and contributing to communities. It should be an option, not...
- N: @ES No mention of the great deeds the Dutch had done in Indonesia? (Similarly the English in Malaysia). I love how...
- Jeremy Lin: Our Generation’s Joe Louis (16)
- N: I hope Davis understands he should be winding down his career and is happy to enjoy the party. I personally think...
- gar: Coverage of him has been interesting; I think some folks don’t know what to make of him still or even how...
- bigWOWO: He did it again! http://www.usatoday.com/sports /basketball/nba/story/2012-02- 11/Lin-takes-Knicks-into-Ta...
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- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (247)
- bigWOWO: Not sure if you’re a “bot” or a real person, Andre, but I know lots of Chuas. Only...
- Andre M. Smith: Further on Chua as a Chinese surname . . . My wife, a gyn surgeon, hails from a family of...
- The Other-Directed Personality (1)
- Siegfried: Mitt got Obama worried. He is shaking in his boots. It’s over for Obama because Mitt is going to...
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- N: @TD Good pick up on that one.
- trolldetector: @Colin I love how whites keep trying to troll their divide tactics Asian blogs under different guises.
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- Jeremy Lin shines (21)
- trolldetector: GO JEREMY LIN
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- What Cultures Value (22)
- trolldetector: @Colin. Dont you belong on a Lord Of The Rings filmset? Thats where most white trolls dwell isnt it?
- colin: A bit late to this, but bigwowo, you grossly underestimate the anti-work and anti-intellectual ethic here in...
- bigWOWO: Yeah, I could go for that.
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
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- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- 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!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- 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...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- 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...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- 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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- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
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Category Archives: News
Where Do the Dollars Go?
Thanks, MLC, for the following Chicago Tribune article: ‘Made in China’ ranks only 2.7% of U.S. spending. According to the article:
Goods and services from China accounted for only 2.7% of U.S. personal consumption spending in 2010, according to the report titled “The U.S. Content of ‘Made in China.’ ” About 88.5% of U.S. spending last year was on American-made products and services.
The article says that a relatively small amount of money is leaving the country because 2/3 of what we spend goes towards services. Most of our dollars go towards our dry cleaners, accountants, financial planners, mechanics, and doctors. Then there is food and gasoline–most food is produced locally, and relatively little gasoline is imported from China. The article goes on to describe what we import:
Light-Eyed Ballplayers Have Trouble Seeing in the Daytime
Here’s an interesting article in the NY Times: Light-Eyed Players Deal With Glare, and Doubts. Athletes with light-colored eyes–blue, green, etc.–have more trouble seeing contrasts when the sun is bright. Statisticians can measure this by monitoring differences in performance between night games and day games. Light-eyed players have the biggest discrepancies.
Here’s the science behind the problem:
The root of the problem, said the sports optometrist Dr. Donald Teig, is that light-eyed people lack pigment in their macula, which is “a little dot, about the size of a pinhead, that sits conveniently in the most centralized portion of the eye as light passes through your pupil to get to your retina.”
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Republican Stonewalling on the Debt Ceiling
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell stated his position on the debt ceiling:
“I refuse to help Barack Obama get re-elected by marching Republicans into a position where we have co-ownership of a bad economy,” he said, adding that after two years in office, Obama is now responsible for the economic conditions that began under former president George W. Bush.
Amazon.com and California: Short-Term Thinking for Long-Term Problems
The law states that Californians, when buying through Amazon.com, must pay sales tax because Amazon has affiliates in the state. Rather than complying with the tax charges, Amazon.com cut ties with its affiliates. Amazon is now proposing that they put this before the voters: Amazon Wants Voters to Decide on Tax Collection.
It’s a horrible idea–well, it’s great idea for Amazon, an absolutely horrible idea for everyone else. People think short-term; when you put a bill like this in front of the people, they will almost always vouch for the short-term gratification: “Woo hoo, I’m not going to have to pay taxes!”
One Million Asians in New York City
Holy crap, there are one million Asian people in New York City! One out of eight New Yorkers is Asian. That’s 12.5%, and it looks like it’s continuing to grow. The Asian population of New York has gone up 32% since 2000, compared to just an 8% gain for Hispanics. According to the article, it’s more than the population of San Francisco and Los Angeles combined (I’m assuming they’re talking about SF proper–not including outlying areas like Cupertino, San Jose, etc.).
At any rate, that’s a huge increase. New York is the art, fashion, and publishing center of the country. Perhaps this population boom will result in greater (and better) representation in these areas. I’m optimistic.
Blogger Dudes Posing as Lesbians
This is some scary s#%t coming out of the blogosphere. (Thanks, Kai, for both of these stories.)
Blogging is a new form of news media, and people follow blogs, FB accounts, and Twitter accounts for news of what is going on in the world. Amina Arraf, aka “Gay Girl in Damascus” was one of the international bloggers who had developed a following after writing about the Syrian government’s crackdown on protesters. For years, she talked about how she lived as a half-Syrian, half-American lesbian woman, and how the Syrian goverment was responsible for human rights violations.
Korean Grocers on the Decline
Korean grocers dominate the fresh food markets, owning nearly 70% of the market share in New York, but they are on the decline: A New York Staple for Decades, Korean Grocers are Dwindling. I guess Al Sharpton got his wish–they boycotted, and now they’re finally shutting down. Sharpton can now shop at Whole Foods. (joke y’all.)
Seriously speaking though, I think it’s a natural progression. Much as Chinese people left the laundry business, Koreans were bound to leave the grocery business. It’s not a fun job if you’ve got other options.
Life Sentences for 14 Year Olds
The Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld a life sentence for a 14 year old convicted of murder. Omer Ninham appealed his sentence by calling it “cruel and unusual,” but the judges didn’t agree with him.
Omer Ninham
The story? When he was 14, Ninham and four buddies approached Zong Vang, who was 13. Vang was riding his bicycle and had picked up tomatoes from the grocery store for his family. Ninham and his friend teased Vang, punched him, and then chased him to the top of a parking structure. Ninham and one of the friends grabbed Vang by the wrists and ankles as he cried and screamed, and then they threw him off the top floor. Vang fell five stories to his death.
That Which Did Not Happen
It was supposed to be the Rapture yesterday. If you are reading this, you are still here.
(Pic from the Friendly Atheist.)
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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.
But here is an...