The Conversation
- Seeking Asian Female (2)
- Raguel: Fuck me halfway through that trailer my testicles nearly crawled back into my body. What a fricking...
- trolldetector: All you need is love.
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (5)
- 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...
- Eurasian Sensation: Actually the trailer’s voiceover makes it seem wayyy more cheesy than it is. I don’t...
- 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
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- 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...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (1)
- Lingyai: Lin’s style on the court: http://oi39.tinypic.com/f1xnvd .jpg Lin call Stanford coach a liar and says...
- “But he hit me back first!” (32)
- trolldetector: CHINESE PRIDE MUTHAFUKAZ
- bigWOWO: I didn’t post that video to mock Koreans (again, why do you seem to think everything is against...
- jstele: Stay classy, Byron. This whole argument isn’t even about race, but your ego and inability to admit that...
- 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...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- 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...
- 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...
- Paper Pushers by the Stunt People (4)
- 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 )
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- Seeking Asian Female (2)
Tag Archives: Asian American
Second Generation Chinese Restaurant Managers
Check out this article in the NY Times: Based on an Old Family Recipe. It’s about second generation children of restaurant owners who go to college, graduate, and then bring their skills in marketing/business/internet to help grow their family restaurants. It’s quite inspiring.
According to one sociologist, restauranteurs today have cachet:
For her 2005 book “Consuming Citizenship,” the sociologist Lisa Sun-Hee Park interviewed children of Korean- and Chinese-American entrepreneurs, including many who sold food. Quite a few of her subjects cringed in embarrassment while recounting their parents’ stories; they spent much of their lives trying to get as far away as possible from jobs they considered demeaning.
The Two Percent Solution and Building Asian American Arts
Fellow blogger and newspaper columnist Jeff Yang has an interesting article in the SF Chron: Looking for a “Hangover’ Cure. He writes about The Hangover 2, Ken Jeong, Asian stereotypes, and the dismal state of Asian American cinema and how hard it is to make a living making Asian American films. He writes about how we need Asian Americans to support Asian American art. He links Justin Lin’s YOMYOMF essay on how he’s lost money on Asian American films, as well as Oliver Wang’s Two Percent Project, which Jeff Yang describes as follows:
Podcast with ChineseMom on American culture, education, and raising kids
After six months of no podcasts, we finally put one together. I had the opportunity to speak with ChineseMom last night. ChineseMom is a graduate of Beijing University （北大） undergrad and UCLA grad school, and we had the opportunity to discuss immigration, culture, education, and raising kids. It’s a 52 minute podcast at 24 megs. Download it here, or listen to it here:
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Posted in Asian American, Education, parenting, Podcasts
Tagged Asian American, Education, parenting
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Duwende: A Capella Group
Happy Monday!
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. I found out via Facebook that a friend from my high school years is part of a 6 person a capella group called Duwende. Check out their video above to see their rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Rock With You.” I like how each person’s voice becomes an instrument and has its own role in the harmony.
It’s a bit early for the holiday season, but I also like their rendition of “All I Want for Christmas.”
Asian American Masculinity
Li Bai
Thanks to Kobukson for posting this:
Masculinity is a more fundamental concept. There’s a really simple test for it. It’s called the “hand test”. You see, you take your hand, reach between your legs, and if you notice something that feels like a sac with two balls in it, then Nature has ordained that you need to be masculine.
It is clear the discussion has devolved to a point where now we have to define what “masculinity” really is. But that’s part of the bigger problem, isn’t it? No one is clear what it is apart from our bastardized, poop culture understanding of it.
Jake Lee and His Rediscovered Art
There’s a pretty amazing story in the NY Times about the Chinese Historical Society of America’s efforts to track down the work of Chinese American artist Jake Lee. The work was hanging in Kan’s Restaurant for more than 30 years, and then it was suddenly lost. The Society was able to get 7 of the original 11 paintings. The article says:
The works are notable for their rare depictions of Chinese-American history, including laborers working in vineyards, on shrimp farms and in cigar factories at the turn of the 19th century.
Kartika Wants to Find 500 Readers of Asian American Literature
TZ informed me about the 500 Project, where the Kartika Review is trying to get 10 Asian American readers of Asian American literature from each state in the U.S. to contact them. Check it out here. She wants you to send an e-mail to 500project@kartikareview.com and to list the following:
1. Full Name
2. Date of Birth
3. Ethnicity
4. Residence (City, State)
5. Occupation
6. Professional Affiliations (optional)
Then answer the following questions:
How Asians Age
I found this hilarious comic from Eurasian Sensation, originally created by the blogger Emiko (who I guess is Japanese?):
Emiko writes: “We’re pretty much teenagers until we hit some kind of milestone and then the age really sneaks up on us.”
I think this is true. I wonder if there’s an evolutionary reason why this happens. Did our ancestors tend to marry later? Have more kids over a longer period of time? Need to be able to run long distances at a later age?
Podcast with Ben and James on Fatherhood
Our latest podcast features Ben from Conceived and Composed and James from Alpha-Asian. In this latest installment, we talk about what it’s like to be a dad. You’ll hear how new dads Ben and James live today, what they were thinking before they had kids, and what life lessons they hope to impart to their kids. Download it here, or listen to it below. It’s 36 minutes and 33 MBs (yes, GarageBand f#$ed up again and I had to do the circular route which expanded the size. Apple is taking it out on the Asian male).
Posted in Asian American, parenting, Podcasts
Tagged Alpha-Asian, Asian American, Conceived and Composed, fatherhood
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Happy Valley Boy Lies About Hate Crime
So first, this story hit the blogs: Happy Valley Family Threatened With Hate Crimes.
A family moving into Happy Valley was threatened with racist graffiti and letters. Someone even threatened to burn down the house, leaving a bottle of gasoline.
I was a bit surprised given the fact that Happy Valley is a posh area. They’ve had a number of foreclosures, but overall, the houses are big and expensive, as you can see in the video above. I have a friend who lives in that area (who is also Vietnamese), and my ego suffers whenever I drive into that wealthy neighborhood.
