The Conversation
- Scapegoating our own (13)
- King: ^Yeah, but so did Obama 4 years ago. It’s inconsistent to think that Obama can have an arch of decision...
- 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.
- 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 (13)
Category Archives: Knowledge
Drifting House by Krys Lee (Review)
bigWOWO rating: Literary Fiction Gold
I don’t remember where I heard of this book, but check out Drifting House by Krys Lee. It’s a collection of short stories about Koreans and Korean Americans, mostly Koreans, and taking place on both sides of the 38th parallel.
Posted in Asian American, books, Reviews
Tagged Asian American literature, Korean American
1 Comment
The Three Kinds of WM/AF (White Male/Asian Female) Portrayals
I’ve been reading the Joyce Wu comments with interest. She’s been taking some heat, and I don’t think it’s fair. As y’all know, we go through these gender wars from time to time, and I thought I should clarify something for the men here: Not all WM/AF portrayals are the same, and I think that some of these portrayals are better than others. To make it easy, I’ve broken them down by category. Usually works fall into one category, but they can also be in more than one at once (Free Food for Millionaires, for example, is both Porn and Heartfelt at the same time. And as I said below, there’s nothing wrong with Porn–as long as you call it what it is. I’m being serious here too–even a powerful author like Christos Tsiolkas has said that he has some major pornographic elements in his work.)
Posted in AF/WM Theme-orama, Asian American, media
Tagged interracial relationships, Joyce Wu
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Joyce Wu: Writer, Actress, Filmmaker (Podcast)
I had the opportunity tonight to speak with Joyce Wu, an actress, writer, and filmmaker who is currently making her first feature film. In the podcast, we talk about art, her new film project, and AF/WM. It’s 16 megs, 35 minutes. Download it here, or listen to it here:
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Asian American Basketball Leagues
Found this article indirectly through Alpha-Asian: The Asian American Basketball Leagues That Helped Create Linsanity. Check it out; it’s a very well-researched article.
Also check out another great article about Jeremy Lin’s effect on these Asian American basketball leagues and the related video below. It looks like it goes both ways–these leagues have facilitated Linsanity, and Linsanity is affecting the leagues.
I’ve heard of these Asian American Basketball Leagues, although I will admit that I’ve never been to a game or participated in one. I have some business associates who grew up in Portland and both coached and played in Japanese American leagues. My interest in basketball is about three weeks old, so I’m just catching up.
Wing Chun fun
For those guys who are young, single martial arts instructors, I’ve just found you your dream job.
(The airline has said that it’s a marketing move rather than something for real safety benefits.)
(Props to this site)
ESPN senior director is proud of his own ignorance
Man, ESPN continues to have problems with their content creators. First, they had a White guy who said “chink” with commentary on Jeremy Lin, before having a guy who wrote the same thing in a headline. Then they called a Korean guy a “gook.” Now they’ve reached the lowest of the lows: an Asian American guy named Lynn Hoppes who is implying that we should all laugh at Jason Whitlock’s tweet and stop cheering for Jeremy based on ethnicity: Stop the Linsanity insanity. Hoppes says that he himself laughed at the racist tweet, and that people should stop assuming that Asian Americans are crazy about the Linsanity.
One Broke Girl and One Asian Web Master
Thought some of you PUAs and militant types might like the clip above. See it on the CBS website here. A little while back, there was some dealio with 2 Broke Girls racist something or other, and I think this was an attempt to make up for it by giving the blonde broke girl a one night stand with an Asian dude. I must say: I think it’s great whenever they give Asian actors a chance.
(I’ve not seen this show and therefore can’t comment on anything other than the clip. Thanks, JJ, for the lead.)
The Slowing Rate of Cultural Change
Are the Oscars Stuck in the Past? The article talks about how the awards pretty much went to the tried-and-true, that everyone was older, and that there was no challenge to the racial norms. Viola Davis didn’t win. The CNN article argues that the Oscars are stuck in the past.
I didn’t see the awards yesterday, but I think that culture in general has been stuck in the past for a very long time. The TV airwaves consist of lots of remakes, and fashion has hardly budged. It reminds me a lot of this excellent Vanity Fair piece last year: You Say You Want a Devolution? (Picture above is from Vanity Fair.) Fashion hardly moves these days, and outside of the technology that now lives in our iPhones, cell phones, and iPads, not much has changed. The auhtor Kurt Andersen writes:
First “Chink,” and now “Gook”
Man, what a hard week for ESPN. First, they had Max Bretos, who used the term “Chink in their armor” to describe Jeremy Lin. Then they had Anthony Federico, who wrote a headline with the words “Chink In Their Armor” to describe Lin again. Now someone wrote about a Korean soccer player with the words, “Gook double earns victory.” The player’s name is Lee Dong-Gook, which means his surname is Lee. His name isn’t “Gook,” the same way my name isn’t “Ron,” the same way a guy named “Brian” isn’t “Ian.”
The Asian Backstreet Boys?
Saw the video above with Neaato.org‘s hilarious Facebook comment:
are these guys liike the asian backstreet boys? also, 5 azn dudes after 1 white girl. so….asian guys want the white girl, asian girls want the white guy. white guys want the asian girl. white girl wants…jeremy lin until he loses. kidding.
Does the white girl in the video even have any idea what these guys are singing about? Bigbang? Is this kind of like the TV show, Korean (plus white woman) version?
