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- 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)
Tag Archives: Activism
Podcast: Anna and Larry and Asian Activism
Download our latest podcast with Larry and Anna on the topic of Asian American/Australian Activism here, or listen to it here:
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The podcast is 51.4 mB and runs for about 45 minutes. It was bigWOWO’s very first podcast on the topic of forming institutions. It was also our very first international podcast, with Anna calling in from Australia, where she is a first year university student. In this episode, Larry and I talk to her about differences in Asian American and Asian Australian culture, and we offer opinions on how to plan and start Asian organizations.
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
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Was reading some of the comments from the last podcast, and I just wanted to share a few thoughts. These are just my thoughts. Feel free to disagree.
1. Asian men and women and women share a common link. Socially, both rise and fall within the hierarchy together. One may be ahead of the other at any given point, but each hinders or buoys the other. When Hong Kingston diminishes me, she diminishes Asian women. People see her elevating White men on a pedestal, and it makes her look bad. Similarly, if I were to launch a war against Asian women, I’d end up destroying Asian men. I can’t launch a war against my own daughter or sister and expect it to empower me. (And yes, I have both.) Especially my daughter–my job is to protect her and do whatever I can to exert an influence that encourages her creativity and freedom.
Update on Bullied Asian Kid
Thanks to Annie from Boston, who posted this. It looks like the Asian kid (who is from Korea) will be reinstated, and the suspension will be removed from his record. The Asian boy still faces criminal charges, but the families of the two boys have made amends, and the White boy has apologized for the racial slur. The White boy’s family has also called the police and asked for the charges to be dropped.
I think this is a great example of strong activism. The kids at the school walked out on Monday, and by doing so, they brought attention from the media and pressure on the school for a huge injustice. Even though they’re kids, they are the ones who are acting like adults.
House Party With Konrad Ng, Obama's Brother-in-Law
Curtis Chin, producer of “Who Killed Vincent Chin,” sent me the following. I think it’s an awesome opportunity for:
1. Community with your friends and colleagues
2. Learning about what President Obama is doing for Asian Americans
3. Making our collective voices heard at the national level
If anyone wants to do this, let me know, or you can D.I.Y over here!
On May 31st, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (apaforprogress.org) is hosting a nation-wide conference call with Konrad Ng, the Chinese American brother-in-law of President Obama. It will be a great chance to hear from someone so close to the President and to learn how the President might approach our community.
Bicoastal Bitchin Podcast
Check out the latest bigWOWO podcast where we interview the three bloggers from Bicoastalbitchin.com: Aznheartthrob, C-Bruhs, and Sherdizzle (Love their onscreen names!). The podcast is 14.5 megabytes and runs for around 31 minutes. You can download it here, or you can listen to it here:
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Respect and Love
Article on Seth Godin’s blog about what makes a good presenter. He says it’s just two things: love to the audience, and respect from the audience.
I think this is true, not just for presenters, but also for bloggers and writers. You can’t be a good blogger if you hate the people who come to your site and are not trying to help them. You can’t write for people if you don’t care about them. I’ve seen some people try their hand at blogging who were so self-absorbed that they couldn’t type a sentence without the condescenscion coming out. Needless to say, they failed.
Networking
Networking
I don’t know why this article is in the “fashion” section, but it is. People are starting to network more, even while they still have jobs. The idea is that it’s easier to find a job while you still have one. It’s totally true–I’ve seen business people shrink away from unemployed job-seekers, but if you don’t need a job, people are more likely to receive you warmly. It’s kind of like the attention from women that a married man with a beautiful wife draws at a social gathering.
Birds of a Feather?
From the days of yore
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What I love most about the web is the fact that it enables people to communicate with each other. I’ve sent and received e-mails from top NY Times columnists, as well as random people in places as distant as Korea and the UK. The internet knows few boundaries of social class or place. The net has also enabled us to see a lot of the world, much of which we would not see without it. Case in point is this post by the good people at Bicoastal Bitchin’. They saw a piece of Orientalist nonsense playing at a local theater, and they did what red blooded young Asian American bloggers do–they called the Orientalists out. It’s evident from that show’s trailer that it’s just an Asian version of Step’n Fetchit where the white guy saves the day and rises above the comical colored minorities.
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Tagged Activism, Arts and music, Asian American, Martial arts, media, Rice Chasah
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Deep Pockets and Asian American Culture
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The NY Times had a great editorial about Bernard Madoff and the allure of money: If Looks Could Steal. In the editorial, Daphne Merkin, sister of a Madoff investor, talks about how we as a society respect money and how money seems to validate everything that a rich person says. She brings up an example of a dinner with George Soros, and she describes it thus:
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Tagged Activism, Asian American, books, money, Writing
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Information and Segregation
Kristof has a good editorial here: The Daily Me. It’s about how the demise of newspapers will push people towards the web, and how when we search online, we tend to become our own gatekeepers and move towards articles in which we agree with the author. We then fail to challenge ourselves because we surround ourselves with people of similar views.
