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.
- bigWOWO: Stele: “Care to qualify that statement? Even if that were true, you have to look at this case on its...
- 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...
- 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)
- 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...
- What Cultures Value (19)
- 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.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- Tommy: I think I’m coming here more for Moro’s comments than BigWoWO’s posts.
- Moroboshi: I didn’t say that. All I said was guys who believe in HBD are the same guys who probably also follow...
- Chr..: Moro, I don’t want to argue with you anymore! You seem to think that AMs are just as popular as other...
- “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...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
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- Andre M. Smith: I divide my year annually between New York and Shanghai. One of my common visitations in the latter...
- Raguel: Smiley tests 8 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
- Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question (245)
- Andre M. Smith: I believe some useful purpose will be served by offering here, what the lawyers might like to call,...
- N: What’s your opinion on Yundi Li and Yoyo Ma.
- Andre M. Smith: Amy Chua has never lived in China. Her understanding of its culture, that is, the culture as it’s...
- How to Finish Life With No Regrets (9)
- trolldetector: ^ i’d agree with that. but i wouldnt call them ‘idiots’, just misguided. crazy media...
- N: Agree with Jeff that not one regret is unlikely, the key is learn from it. Another way to look at it is that...
- American Jobs and India (14)
- lingyai: I am not sure what happen there with my name, that is not my email, so just ignore.
- lingyai@hotmail.com: @bigwowo Just because the average income in India is $2 a day doesn’t make a person...
- AM/AF couple: Nottyboy, Yes, just like every place of employment, upper management needs to do a better job in terms...
- Literary Fiction vs. Realistic Fiction and the Literary Hierarchy (6)
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
I wouldn’t say...
- Sana Rose: Well, now I am confused. I still can’t classify the novel I am writing.
- National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012 (32)
- Raguel: http://www.occupydream.org/ ^ I heard about this from Russell Simmons. I hope that things develop well to...
- Raguel: So is that the reasoning for why you don’t need the right to due process? Are you some kind of fucking...
- N: @King The constitution gave power to the states to benefit white america or the constitution gave benefitial power...
- When Your Fan Base is Full of Crazy People (24)
- N: @American girl Too be honest, I don’t really see why this video that ‘disgusting’ –...
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Tag Archives: Asia
The Asian Inferiority Complex
Beautiful model Du Juan
(pic from here)
I remember calling an Asian American friend when I first landed in Japan right after college.
“How do the guys here get anything done?” I asked him, jokingly. “The women here are eye-blindly beautiful. I’d have trouble keeping an eye on my work.”
At the time, Amuro Namie was really big in Japan. I was working for a White British woman at the school where I taught, and the British woman told me, “Have you heard of Amuro Namie? She is absolutely gorgeous. Among the most beautiful women in the entire world.”
Where Teachers Make More than Baseball Players
Saw this on my Yahoo page. Top online course instructors in education-obsessed South Korea are making upwards of $4 million a year. According to the report, these educators are like rock stars who have money and status. Because of the scalability of internet classes, some of these instructors make more than professional baseball players. In the days before the web, there would be no way to get 50,000 paying subscribers for a single teacher. The web has enabled these teachers to reach more people than ever before.
Yesterday Once More
No real post today because I’m working on a big project that is coming out in the next week or so ( that I hope you all will help me with), but I saw the video above, and I couldn’t help but laugh. They look like they’re having so much fun! Ignore the racist comments on the video; I think it’s great that people can have fun with a foreign song like this. And even though that dude is a bit intense, he probably sounds better than I do when I go to Asian karaoke.
Shek Kin (Shih Kien) dies
Shek Kin
Thanks to Eric for mentioning that Shek Kin, the bad guy from Enter the Dragon, passed away recently at the age of 96. Read his obituary here. He had quite a long and effective career. “Unconventional…but effective” hahah…sorry, I think that was actually Jim Kelly’s (Williams) line. Shek Kin had the perfect bad guy face, perfect bad guy aura, and was an excellent bad guy. Watching Enter the Dragon, one really feels like he is Han, owner and master of his own world where he trains fighters.
Fast Food in China
Fast food is all the rage in China. A new Kentucky Fried Chicken opens every day. It’s a good day to be a corporate giant in China, a bad day to be a chicken. (Haha…they’re probably imported, so maybe it’s a bad day to be a chicken in the U.S.)
What I thought was most unexpected about this video was the fact that people in China think fast food is healthy. Healthier than Chinese food? KFC and Mickey D’s must be doing some serious hard marketing back in the motherland.
Edison Chen breaks his silence
Edison Chen
I was surprised this morning to see that Edison Chen was among CNN’s most popular stories. Check it out here. According to the site, you can
Watch the full, exclusive TV interview with Edison Chen on CNN TV and here online on Wednesday, June 3. Chen talks at length to CNN’s Anjali Rao about the women involved in the photographs, why he took the images, the effect the scandal had on his health, his family and others.
Zee Avi
Saw this video of Zee Avi on Youtube. Her music is the Spotlight Tuesday music selection for YouTube. She’s got a powerful voice with some pretty cool, happy tunes. It’s one of the coolest collections I’ve heard in a long time. Zee Avi is from Malaysia, and her debut CD is coming out today. Check it out!
Punishment and "Crime"
Tsuyoshi Kusanagi
(pic from here)
I first saw this story in the Yuuyake Shimbun, a local paper that I used to write for. Since they don’t have a web presence, let me reference the British Times Online: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi involved in naked romp. These Smap guys were big when I was in Japan, and from the sound of the article, they’re still big. All five of them are clean-cut and wholesome looking, and they project a very good image. Unfortunately, Kusanagi had a bit of a drunken incident, and it looks like his career will be taking a brief vacation.
Happy Lunar New Year!
Happy New Year, everyone!
Saw this article in the NY Times this morning: Year of the Ox is looking Inauspicious.
“The mood is confused and desperate,” said Kerby Kuek, a feng shui master and Chinese astrologer. “Two years ago, people would ask me if they should change from a medium house to a big house, or from a Nissan to a BMW.
“Now people ask me directly, ‘When am I going to get laid off?”’
Miss Tibet
Choekyapy, a monk, and Sonam Choedon, Miss Tibet 2008
Even a beauty contest in Tibet is a political issue.
Some of you may disagree with me on this one, but I think beauty contests are important, especially for minorities. People always talk about image. Well, this promotes image, doesn’t it?
Plus, this isn’t just a beauty contest; it’s a knowledge contest too:
The heavily made-up contestants wear elaborate gold jewelry and floor-length chubas, traditional Tibetan robes. The pageants include yoga competitions and questions about Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan history. The toughest part is the swimsuit round — in addition to enduring the gawking men, the contestants must weather the mountain chill.
