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- bigWOWO: Not sure if you’re a “bot” or a real person, Andre, but I know lots of Chuas. Only...
- Andre M. Smith: Further on Chua as a Chinese surname . . . My wife, a gyn surgeon, hails from a family of...
- “But he hit me back first!” (44)
- King: I will be kissing Asian women like Linda against the wall without a shirt”. Yuck!!!
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- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
But here is an... - King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- Raguel: Yes! I mean with me. How did I miss that part out? And why do I suddenly feel some anxiety?
- The Other-Directed Personality (1)
- Siegfried: Mitt got Obama worried. He is shaking in his boots. It’s over for Obama because Mitt is going to...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (9)
- N: @TD Good pick up on that one.
- trolldetector: @Colin I love how whites keep trying to troll their divide tactics Asian blogs under different guises.
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- Jeremy Lin shines (21)
- trolldetector: GO JEREMY LIN
- 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...
- What Cultures Value (22)
- trolldetector: @Colin. Dont you belong on a Lord Of The Rings filmset? Thats where most white trolls dwell isnt it?
- colin: A bit late to this, but bigwowo, you grossly underestimate the anti-work and anti-intellectual ethic here in...
- bigWOWO: Yeah, I could go for that.
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- 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...
- 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
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- 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...
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- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
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- 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...
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- 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...
- 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....
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- 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.
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- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
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- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
Tag Archives: Education
Justice with Michael Sandel: Invitation from bigWOWO
I’ve written a post about “Talent,” an issue that has dogged me for two months. Over the last two months, I’ve written two posts and recorded two podcasts about this real-life issue, and none of it got published because I’m still challenging my own beliefs. I’m usually very good about arguing points and winning debates, but this last issue kind of killed some of my faith in humanity, and I’d like for you guys and gals to help me think it through. My “talent” post will be up tomorrow. (I think it will be protected, so let me know if you need the password.)
Grudges
Writing this Thymos Anthology essay has been very difficult for me. Even though I average about seven or eight rewrites per essay or story, I’m usually pretty accurate when the words come out. With this personal essay, however, I feel like I’m cutting open my own stomach. It’s requiring more rewrites because I often have no idea what I’m trying to say. At the same time, it’s helping me to think through a lot of the pain that I experienced growing up.
Where Teachers Make More than Baseball Players
Saw this on my Yahoo page. Top online course instructors in education-obsessed South Korea are making upwards of $4 million a year. According to the report, these educators are like rock stars who have money and status. Because of the scalability of internet classes, some of these instructors make more than professional baseball players. In the days before the web, there would be no way to get 50,000 paying subscribers for a single teacher. The web has enabled these teachers to reach more people than ever before.
Hungry for Knowledge
Kids writing in the dirt because their school doesn't have chalk
CNN has a very enlightening article on kids and books in Africa. The educational system and resources in Africa are shocking. According to a U.N. study, 33% of school aged children in Africa have never set foot in a classroom, many kids don’t even have access to a pencil, and there are no bookshops in Tanzania. Books are so rare that kids greet them, treasure them, and protect them as if they were the most important thing in the world.
Learn learn learn
I once read an article by Eddie Van Halen about how he learned guitar. He would listen to the guitar greats like Chuck Berry on his dad’s phonograph. Because the solos were so fast, he’d play the records at a slower pace, and then he’d finger them on his guitar. He would painstakingly sound out the music and work it until he could reproduce it. This was back in the day before they sold sheet music with guitar tablature, the diagrams which shows the exact finger positions on a guitar fretboard. When tab came out, it made the budding guitarist’s job a lot easier.
Mr. Li and the Western Hemisphere on a Bucket of Water
In high school, I had a teacher named Mr. Li. Mr. Li was the teacher who knew everything. Because he was so smart, everyone sought his advice. He was the teacher who taught us to challenge everything that people had told us. He was the teacher whom other teachers sought for advice. He was also the teacher who introduced me to the writings of Frank Chin, which changed my life forever.
Anyway, one area where we liked to test him was the topic of college admissions.
We asked him, “Mr. Li, what are the lowest grades that Harvard would accept?”
First Asian American Ivy League President
Dr. Jim Yong Kim, next President of Dartmouth
Dr. Jim Yong Kim will be the first president of an Ivy League school. He will take his position in July. This is great news; college presidents are visible, have the ability to make decisions about education, and help determine the direction of the country. I don’t know anything about Dr. Kim, but it’s yet another barrier that has now come down.
I was surprised that this took place at Dartmouth. I usually don’t think of Dartmouth as being a diverse Ivy, although admittedly I’ve never been there.
MMA in High Schools
The Founder of the MMA Club
In today’s NY Times, Mixed Martial Arts Makes Its Way to High School. The guy pictured above, Mr. In-Goo Kwak, founded an MMA club at his high school in Winchester, Massachusetts, where students practice MMA, the style of fighting which has been popularized in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. According to Mr. Kwak, ”one of his goals with the program was to offer something to students who were not ‘the jocks who dominate the sports.’” However, there are refugees from other sports including football and wrestling.
Taking Aim at Tenure
I first read about Michelle Rhee a while ago when she was first being considered for the chancellor position in public schools. At the time, the brouhaha was over whether or not an Asian woman should be considered for a position that oversees schools that have large African American populations, but because she had ample support, she was able to overcome.
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Learn Math, Indian Style
Globalization is an amazing thing. Especially with the internet, the new age is one in which other cultures are just a click and a pageview away.
Just saw this story: Start-Up Teaches Math to Americans, Indian-Style. Bob Compton, producer of Two Million Minutes, has co-founded a site called Indian Math Online, which uses an Indian approach to the teaching of mathematics to kids. He co-founded the site with Suresh Murthy, who grew up in India. Mr. Murthy has a personal investment in the company, since he has daughters who study math. So far, it looks like most of Indian Math Online’s clients have been Indian and Chinese immigrants:
