The Conversation
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
- 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...
- 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 )
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’ –...
- Mitt Romney and the Problem of Wealth (6)
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Tag Archives: Asian
The Shanghai Hotel (Review of Trailer)
I love the beginning of this trailer. They start talking about human trafficking and how bad it is, like they’re performing some kind of public service or something. Then all of a sudden, they cut to some half-nekkid Asian women and good ol’ Asian thugs! They’ve got an oily White dude getting all horny with handcuffs in front of Eugenia Yuan, and some mean and violent yakuza (oh wait…is that Japanese?). They’ve also got some Black guys in it, although I’m not sure how they’re related to the rest of the movie. (You can guess this movie is written and produced by a Black guy (Jerry Allen Davis) because most White Orientalist writers seem to forget Black people exist when it comes to half-dressed Asian prostitutes and violent Asian thugs.)
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.
International Penis Wars
This one has been making the rounds, so I thought I’d put it up here. Someone made a map linking nationality with penis size. You can see the dick map over here. As King mentioned, I don’t see how they would ever measure this or get people to measure erect penis size. But for the sake of humor, let’s just run with it. Check out AbsolutelyFobulous’s quotes (converted to inches):
“To tell the truth, my JJ during cold or nervous situations is not 2 inches, and even shrinks into my body…only when erect is it 4.7 inches, I am so sad. Looks like this is how it will be my entire life. Life is suffering, I especially believe this saying.”
Asian American Manliness and Becoming Men
Welcome to the longest post in the history of bigWOWO. The Post Teaser plugin has been activated.
We’ve been having a long discussion on Asian American masculinity on those other two blog posts (1 and 2). We originally began talking about masculinity in order to understand emasculation and how it relates to interracial dating, but in the course of the discussion, we realized that masculinity and manliness are not the same thing. Masculinity is a frame of mind characterized by fast aggressive action, a yang frame of mind. It’s a self-contained description. Manliness, on the other hand, combines yin and yang, feminine and masculine, to embody what society thinks a man should be. Becoming a man is a rite of passage where the values depend entirely on the culture in which one lives.
Pantene Ad
I saw the above viral video reviewed at CNN here. (See the YouTube version here if the embedded video is down.) It’s a Pantene commercial, created by Pantene, about a deaf girl who fights social stigma and overwhelming odds to become a master violinist. I think it’s in Thai. It’s a pretty amazing ad.
They must have either hired some real Thai screenwriters or screenwriters who lived in Asia to do this. It looks just like those K-Pop and J-Pop videos you see on the web, with the story, expressions, fights, thugs, etc. I think culturally it’s hard for a writer to recreate that feeling in video unless you live there and breathe in that culture.
Why Do Asian People Have Bad Eyesight?
Why do so many Asian kids wear glasses? And why are we always nearsighted, rather than farsighted?
There are two typical explanations that people generally accept. First, that it’s genetic and tied to Asian genes. Second, that Asian parents make Asian kids read so much that they mess up their eyesight. The genetic explanation is widespread in the Asian American community; I know at least one person who wanted to marry out as a way of helping her kids’ eyesight. The “too much reading explanation” is also widespread: I remember WAY back when in the early blogosphere–before PUA and LASIK surgery were widespread–one Asian American male website even went as far as to recommend that Asian men, in order to boost their success with the ladies, read books “only when necessary!”
The Asian Female Celebrity Club (AFCC) Embargo
Et tu, Jarah?
(pic from here)
Jarah Mariano is the very first woman of Asian descent to become a Victoria’s Secret model. And like almost all of our Asian American female “firsts,” she’s dating a White guy. We support our celebrities, but they don’t date us or any men of color. It’s like there’s a Asian Female Celebrity Club (I’m adding this one to my lexicon, along with “community store”) that somehow decided that men of color would be excluded from their dating pool. When we see that the AFCC members as a general rule don’t date us, it kills us a little bit. We feel shortchanged, especially given how hard we work to promote Asian Americans trying to make a name for themselves.
Posted in Asian American, Features, Knowledge, media
Tagged Asian, Asian Female Celebrity Club, interracial relationships, Jarah Mariano, White
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Asian Sistah Helps Scotty Lago Celebrate Bronze Medal Win
Scotty Lago from the United States won the bronze medal in the halfpipe a couple days ago. To celebrate, an eager Asian sistah helped him polish his halfpipe….I mean, medal.
TMZ posted the pic, and now Scotty is heading home. Beam me back home, Scotty.
(Thanks, BcB)
Reformed Asian Immigrant Faces Deportation
Saw this yesterday morning: Judge Keeps His Word to Immigrant Who Kept His. This guy Qing Hong Wu confessed to a string of muggings when he was fifteen. The judge told him to clean up his act. Wu did, serving three years in the pen and eventually rising to become the vice president of a national company. But when he applied for U.S. citizenship at the age of 27, and in doing so, ironically, he found out that he was deportable based on the crime he committed more than a decade earlier.
Round Eyes
So I came across this video on the front page of YouTube when I went online this morning. Asian women can get “Bigger Rounder & Brighter Eyes” through makeup. Woohoo! I’ve got an idea though–instead of just faking it with makeup, why don’t we just invent a surgical procedure to make ourselves look more like White people? Oh, that’s right, we already do that.
It’s unfortunate the way it’s titled. It would be like a black makeup artist advertising “whiter skin or straighter hair.” When is this going to end?
