The Conversation
- 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...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (4)
- 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...
- bigWOWO: Not sure if it’s cool to ask this (for those who haven’t seen it), but does he get the girl at...
- “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...
- Seeking Asian Female (1)
- trolldetector: All you need is love.
- 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 )
8( - Raguel: ROFL! Thank you for thoroughly destroying Amy Chua, Andre. WELL SAID ^_^ You know the destruction is so...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
Tag Archives: Education
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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America's Real Dream Team
Tom Friedman wrote a pro-immigration column yesterday. He talks about attending an important dinner he recently attended. He reveals the names of the honorees and writes:
Linda Zhou, Alice Wei Zhao, Lori Ying, Angela Yu-Yun Yeung, Lynnelle Lin Ye, Kevin Young Xu, Benjamin Chang Sun, Jane Yoonhae Suh, Katheryn Cheng Shi, Sunanda Sharma, Sarine Gayaneh Shahmirian, Arjun Ranganath Puranik, Raman Venkat Nelakant, Akhil Mathew, Paul Masih Das, David Chienyun Liu, Elisa Bisi Lin, Yifan Li, Lanair Amaad Lett, Ruoyi Jiang, Otana Agape Jakpor, Peter Danming Hu, Yale Wang Fan, Yuval Yaacov Calev, Levent Alpoge, John Vincenzo Capodilupo and Namrata Anand.
Eli Broad on Education
When you’re a billionaire philanthropist, people listen to what you have to say. bigWOWO is no exception.
Check out the video above for Eli Broad’s opinions on the American education. Click here and see the first four videos for his views on charity and education. See the video below to hear what Broad is doing with his Superintendents Academy. He’s using his academy to teach superintendents to use executive skills in managing money and people.
Getting Schooled by Overpriced Schooling
Thank you, NY Times, for publishing this: In Hard Times, Lured Into Trade School and Debt.
Yup, you’ve seen them before–the advertisements for ITT Tech and Western Culinary Institute (apparently now doing business as Le Cordon Bleu). I’d always wondered about those. At most companies where I’ve worked, there was usually a tech department. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard of any of our tech guys coming from ITT Tech. Nor have I heard of chefs becoming Jamie Oliver or Kylie Kwong after studying at Western Culinary Institute. Nor have I heard of guys maintaining relationships with what I would consider to be desirable women after taking a pickup class. People think they can pay money to become what they want to be, and schools encourage this thinking with dishonest marketing. What these poor students usually get from these trade schools, according to the article, are big school loans with no career benefits.
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.
Justice, Episode 12 (Final)
I’m putting this in a day early…here is the very last Justice Harvard lecture episode. This one is about Same Sex Marriage and the Good Life. It’s been a great three months. I will say that this has been the most educational video series I’ve seen, either through the internet or elsewhere. I don’t know how long they’ll keep these up, so check ‘em out. Way to go, Harvard! Sound off like a WOWO.
Justice, Episode 11
My goodness. Only two more episodes left! Everyone chime in so you can get your WOWO-Harvard degrees!
This episode is about obligations vs. freedom, Aristotle vs. Kant. Sound off!
Justice, Episode 9
Anyone still there?
I’m so far behind on this Justice course that it isn’t even funny. Sigh, this is like real school. I’m halfway through Episode 7 right now, and it’s a shame since Ep 9 is the Affirmative Action episode (and I love arguing AA). Don’t worry about ruining it for me though…please sound off. We need to motivate each other.
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Tagged Education, Martial arts
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Arrogant Hate Mail from the Ivory Tower
I got this e-mail from a disgruntled professor in California who is upset at the fact that we’re producing Miss Asian Oregon. I usually don’t post angry hate mail, but this one really got on my nerves because I really don’t get it–why do some professors, whose tenure protects them from the hills and valleys of the economy, take such an antagonistic view against the private sector? These people are teaching our future leaders. They feel soooo high and mighty because they get a guaranteed paycheck, and they take that arrogance and throw accusations against the rest of us who are trying to pay the mortgage and put food on the table for our kids. It baffles me.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Education, Features
Tagged Education, Miss Asian Oregon, money, recession
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