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)
- Raguel: Where do people get their information and knowledge from, though? Media, and education, word of mouth only...
- “But he hit me back first!” (13)
Tag Archives: business
141 Eyewear and Entrepreneurship (Podcast)
Check out our awesome podcast with Kyle Yamaguchi and Shu-Chu Wu from 141 Eyewear, a local Portland company. It’s 38 minutes, 17.4 megs. Download it here, or listen to it here:
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Posted in Asian American, Podcasts, Portland
Tagged 411 Eyewear, business, entrepreneurship, Kyle Yamaguchi, Shu-Chu Wu
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Jeff Ma’s New Book
Jeff Ma, the guy who became famous as a White guy in the movie 21, just wrote a new book called The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big in Business. He was, of course, the inspiration behind the main character in 21 (which I did not see), and so he knows a thing or two about gambling and beating the house. He has an interview above, which I saw on 8Asians.
Rent a White Guy
Man, the price of Whiteness is skyrocketing through the roof these days! According to CNN, companies in China are seeking to boost their appeal by hiring White actors to masquerade as executives.
Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there.
China Becomes #1 Car Market and #1 Export Nation
Cars, cars, cars
China in 2009 overtook the United States as the world’s biggest car market (thanks, King!). It’s huge. Never in history has any country surpassed the American car market. This is great news for China, horrible news for the environment, and maybe even worse news for the world’s limited supply of fossil fuels. I’m reading a book called Green Metropolis right now, and the stat they use is that America currently uses 25% of the world’s fossil fuels. 25%! And we’re only a country of 300 million. What is going to happen when a country of 1.3 BILLION suddenly adopts American lifestyles? As a planet, we’d better find a way to stop this dependence on liquid energy. I don’t know if this is good news for us. Do they buy our cars?
Big Businesses and the Environment
I saw this Op-Ed in the NY Times a few days ago: Will Big Business Save the Earth. It was written by Jared Diamond, the guy who wrote “Guns, Germs, and Steel.” Check out the article. His thesis is this:
The embrace of environmental concerns by chief executives has accelerated recently for several reasons. Lower consumption of environmental resources saves money in the short run. Maintaining sustainable resource levels and not polluting saves money in the long run. And a clean image — one attained by, say, avoiding oil spills and other environmental disasters — reduces criticism from employees, consumers and government.
Shark Tank
The Sharks
(pic from here)
Has anyone caught the new show Shark Tank on ABC? If not, check it out. It’s like the Apprentice, only it deals with investors rather than employees. I’ve heard from my friend Panther Head that you can catch old episodes on hulu.com.
"Black Folks Need Legacy"
I’m not sure why there is so much talk out there about African Americans and money. Maybe it’s because our economy is in the dumps right now. Maybe it’s because we ought to be focused on how we can pull ourselves out of the dumps. Anyway, here’s another article, this time about a couple of older African American brothers (literal not figurative) who run a $1 billion corporation with holdings in real estate, retail, and hotels. The link says, “black.donald.trumps.” I shudder in pity.
Here is a good quote:
Posted in Asian American, Strategy
Tagged African American, Asian American, business, money
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Asians, Ethics, and You
he he he
(pic from here)
Never drive when drunk, and never post when tired. I’m good about the first, and usually good about the second, but when the fatigue shows no sign of going away, I’m willing to step in and do what I have to do.
In this case, I saw this post by Jeff at 8 Asians. In the post, he talks about a White Realtor telling his brother-in-law that the Asians are ruining everything in real estate by providing kickbacks to buyers. Jeff then talks about how Asian people also do good things by buying houses in good areas and stabilizing the market. I posted the following:
Posted in Asian American, Features
Tagged Asian American, Bible thumpers, business, Ethics
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Humanities and CEO Thought
Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO of Darden Restaurants
Interesting interview with Clarence Otis, Jr., CEO of Darden Restaurants here. Two reasons I’m posting this.
1. It’s good to hear from a minority CEO, especially as it relates to hearing ideas. Minority CEOs not only break stereotypes, but they also contribute to the dialogue on what constitutes good governance.
2. Look what he says:
Q. Anything in your background that, looking back, prepared you for the art of building a team?
Tagged art, business
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The Tribune Company Falls
With respect to our neverending WOWO debate about the future of books/media and the internet, The Tribune Company has just declared bankruptcy. Ouch.
The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection in a federal court in Delaware on Monday, as the publisher of newspapers like The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune struggled to cope with rising debt and falling ad revenue.
From the Tribune website:
TRIBUNE is America’s largest employee-owned media company, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting, including ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids, 23 television stations, WGN America, WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
