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: News
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.
Osama Bin Laden Killed
This just in, and I’m sure there will be more info coming soon: Osama Bin Laden, mastermind of 9/11, has been killed in Abbottabad. Obama is going to be giving a speech shortly.
Edit 10:46pm: I posted this on RiceDaddies: “This isn’t Daddy-related, but today is a historic day. Osama Bin Laden was killed by Navy Seals today. He was living in a large city of about a million people, and the Navy took him out in a firefight. Reports are saying that his son was also killed. According to early reports, the U.S. carried out the mission independently and only told the Pakistani government after the fact. More information is probably going to be coming out in the next week or so.”
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UFC 129: Machida is BACK!
If there was ever a UFC fight that you didn’t want to miss, this was it. It was hands down the best fight card I’d ever seen, and when they brought it on, the fights were even better than I thought they’d be. There were 55,000 people in attendance. EVERY fight was good. The weakest fight was the main event with St. Pierre vs. Shields, and even that one was good. The rest of the fights were amazing.
The Royal Wedding and Royalty
As everyone knows, Prince William and Kate Middleton were married yesterday. It was at 1 am Pacific time, so I didn’t stay up to see it, but I just saw some of the 20/20 coverage. I have to say–they both looked really good. I rarely follow fashion, but I loved Kate’s dress.
Royalty serves a great function. Think about it. What percentage of Americans think positively about Obama? Probably around 50%, more or less. What percentage think positively of Tony Blair? Probably around 50%, more or less. Same with Gordon Brown. What percentage love the royal family in Britain? Probably EVERYONE.
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Fear, Checks, Balances, and Culture
Qian Liu
I was going to post this. And then I wasn’t going to post this. And then I decided to post this. So here it is, two articles: Exchange student slain after frantic friend watches webcam attack and Was York U student stalked before her death? It’s a sad story. 23 year old exchange student Qian Liu was talking on the webcam with her boyfriend in China, and in the middle of their conversation, a white guy knocks on her door, struggles with her, and turns off her laptop. The guy in China notifies authorities, but by the time the landlord gets there, she’s dead, naked from the waist down with her pyjamas pulled over her chest. There is evidence that she was being stalked, but we don’t yet know if the stalker and the murderer are the same guy.
No House, No Date!
Look what’s on the NY Times front page: For Many Chinese Men, No Deed Means No Dates. (Awesome picture, too.) Yikes, even guys in the motherland have got it tough. The article says:
…by the exacting standards of single Chinese women, it seems, Mr. Wang lacks that bankable attribute known as real property. Given that even a cramped, two-bedroom apartment on the dusty fringe of the capital sells for about $150,000, Mr. Wang’s $900-a-month salary means he may forever be condemned to the ranks of the renting.
Tony Hsieh of Zappos and the pursuit of fun
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is continuing to rise in popularity and power. He has been building Zappos (which he sold to Amazon for over a billion dollars in 2009) into an online shoe powerhouse, and he’s been making the rounds by throwing parties, being a guest judge on the Celebrity Apprentice, and running training camps on the Zappos ethos. His newest project is revitalizing part of Las Vegas.
Writer of New Malcolm X Biography Dies Three Days Before Publication
Manning Marable
I know there are some HUGE Malcolm X fans on this site (including me). I thought you’d find this story and book interesting: On Eve of Redefining Malcolm X, Biographer Dies. Manning Marable, a Columbia University professor, spent 20 years working on his magnus opus, a 594 page biography of the late human rights leader. The books was set to come out tomorrow, but he died on Friday. I’m glad he completed the book, but it’s sad that he won’t get to see it come out.
Chinese Maternity Tourists
Hope the NY Times paywall isn’t bothering y’all, but here’s an interesting one: Officials Close ‘Maternity Tourism’ House in California.
According to the story, there was a “maternity tourism” house where wealthy Chinese women stayed in order to have babies while on tourist visas. Aside from the zoning law violations against the owner of the home, no laws were broken. It’s perfectly legal to have babies in this country on a tourist visa. You can travel here, give birth to an American citizen, and go back to China. If the s#$t hits the fan in China, your baby cannot be stripped of his citizenship, so he or she will always have a home here. Man, talk about do-it-yourself Asian Americans. It’s like the Home Depot slogan–”You can do it, we can help.”
