The Conversation
- 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: China
Institutional Power and Censorship
The NY Times had an interesting article a few days ago: How Chinese Censorship Affects Writers in the West. It talks about how China’s influence is growing so large that writers, even those in the West, are censoring themselves out of fear of repercussions from Beijing. People are fearful not of physical violence but of getting on the wrong side of Beijing’s politics. Some writers, after offending China, have allegedly found it hard to get visas to the country, which, if one is a writer with interest in China, can make one’s life rather difficult.
This is how the censorship is developing:
24 Million Bride Shortage
I’ve seen this CNN story around the blogosphere, but I first caught wind of it at the Anti-Social Ladder. Read it here: China Faces 24 M Bride Shortage by 2020.
I’ve written about this before. It’s the same issue–the one-child policy has resulted in Chinese people undergoing sex-selective abortions, and the gender balance has been swinging towards males. Too many men, not enough women. Skewed male gender ratios results in increases in prostitution, kidnapping, forced marriages, and all other kinds of problems. If you want to read a great book on this issue, check out Den Boer and Hudson’s Bare Branches. Bad things happen when there are too many men and not enough women.
Chinese Language School
Thanks, AlphaAsian, for posting this video. The video is about how education in the Chinese language is critical for Americans to learn about the world. 20% of the world lives in China, and as the experts say, it’s the most important foreign relation that the United States will have in the future.
Google Threatens to Pull Out of China
I’m a day late on this one, but I wanted to weigh in. After a cyberattack that looks like it was intended to hack the gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents, Google has threatened to pull its operations from China. See the Times story here. That’s right, no more dealing with Chinese censorship, no more dealing with the world’s slowest web, no more programming to create filters to sway the politics of the world’s most populous country.
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?
China Luring Scientists Back Home
Shi Yigong, who left Princeton University to become Dean of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University
Saw this interesting article in the NY Times: Fighting Trend, China is Luring Scientists Home. Many Chinese scientists, rather than staying in the U.S. to do their research, are heading back home to China. The dude in the picture above gave up a 10 million dollar grant and a Princeton laboratory with a 2 million a year budget. Why are these guys leaving?
They are lured by their patriotism, their desire to serve as catalysts for change and their belief that the Chinese government will back them.
China's Green Power
Apparently China is way ahead of the United States in implementing green power. Many of the changes taking place now in our federal government have already been enacted in China, and China is poised to be the #1 market in wind turbines this year. Solar energy is exploding as well. With little Bush’s disdain for the environment, it doesn’t surprise me.
We’ve got some catching up to do. I wonder why no one has proposed that places like Las Vegas and Phoenix don’t try to specialize in green power. Quoting a Chinese official:
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.
