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: interracial dating
Chinglish by David Henry Hwang
I know it’s been a while since you people have seen a WM/AF couple in theater, so I wanted to alert you to a new play coming soon to a theater near you: “Chinglish,” by David Henry Hwang. According to the NY Times, it’s “about a bewildered American businessman hoping to make his fortune in capitalist China.” We clearly don’t have enough White male protagonists in American theater, so I’m glad David Henry Hwang is providing job opportunities and media attention for the less fortunate.
A Good Way To Date in this Economy
IR can sometimes be very funny, but if there was ever a date like the one above, I’m POSITIVE that an Asian dude–specifically a Chinese dude–invented it.
(Thanks, G.S.!)
Asian Women and Western Men Speed Dating Party
BOOYAH!
Please read the following post with a funny accent:
If you a West-uhn man who like Asian woo-meen, or if you a Asian woo-meen who wor-ship White man, and if you be in Torrance a-re-a on August 20, check out dis speed dating pah-ty: Asian woo-meen and West-uhn man. Fo rules, readie heah:
We are looking for Asian women ages 23-41 who want to date Western Men. We are also looking for men ages 28-47 who want to date Asian women. All ethinicities are welcome to join. If you’re man 5’8 or above, have a solid job, ambitious, comfortable in your own skin, and financially secure, you are invited! Of course, all are welcomed as long as you appreciate Asian cultures and the fine women of Asian countries!
How To Prevent Emotional Infidelity
Thanks, AMR, for alerting us to this handy advice video from MSN that once again, repeats The Meme. In order to avoid emotionally cheating on your spouse according to this video, you need an emotional radar, good communication, and temptation avoidance. And related to temptation avoidance, if you’re an attached White dude who works in an office, avoid hot young Asian chicks. Hot young Asian chicks are like kryptonite to a strong marriage between two White people. (Note: I’m being sarcastic, but this may not always be bad advice.)
Posted in Asian American, Knowledge, media
Tagged interracial dating, interracial relationships
3 Comments
Korean American Love
Check out the two videos above. It looks like it’s part of a larger series on Korean Americans in general. There are lots of other videos if you go to the YouTube channel of the guy/gal who posted it, but I only decided to post the videos on everyone’s favorite topic. Curiously, there don’t seem to be many YouTube views. I don’t know how representative of the Korean-Am experience these are–at least two of the participants are in the entertainment field, which is a glamour job. But it was interesting nevertheless on that level.
The Definitive History of Asian Men Dating Outside their Race
So what do you all think of the new look? As some of you know, something batty happened with my WordPress, and the old theme was one of the casualties from the fall. The new theme, which I absolutely LOVE (and will try to tweak if you e-mail suggestions), was designed by Eyoung. Thanks, Eyoung for your awesome theme.
Where the Black Man is King/FlashForward's IR pairing
Zoey and Demetri from FlashForward
Neutral Observer asked me to comment on Gabrielle Union and John Cho’s onscreen romance on FlashForward. He writes:
Asian male bloggers have long compared their dating plight to that of black women, and have long said that maybe they need to expand their dating pool outside the asian female sphere.
Seems, at least on TV, we’re getting a dramatization of this “solution.”
Combine that with how this is a pushing back against the media’s systematic “de-sexualization” of the asian man’s image, and I’m doubly curious to get your thoughts on this.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features, media
Tagged Asian men, black women, interracial dating, IR
44 Comments
Posterity and Asian Americans
[pic from randplaty, attributed to dasasaki. randplaty looks like a church blog (and you know my views on that), but it also looks like he has some very interesting views on church and culture. I actually had some similar questions, which maybe we can discuss in the future. The religious/political web we weave...]
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. Thanks to everyone who is still coming here, even though I post less frequently. If it gets annoying with the slow, disconnected entries, feel free to add me to your RSS reader. And don’t worry, I will eventually be back full swing with the fighting dialogue.
Posted in Asian American, Features
Tagged Asian American, community, David Brooks, eunuchs, interracial dating, IR
34 Comments
Get Shorty
I found this NY Times piece at 8A, which offers an explanation on why the AF/WM numbers are so much greater than the AM/WF numbers–Asian guys are shorter, and therefore White women don’t want to date us. Similarly, according to the article, black women are taller, which may make White men less interested in dating them–or them less interested in dating White men. As you can see from the comments, the article and site took a bit of a beating from readers.
IR on NPR
(pic from here)
The 4-1-1 on I-R on N-P-R. Man, these acronyms and short cuts are all over the place.
One of you (not sure if it was meant to be anonymous or not) sent me this article and podcast on NPR. NPR covered our favorite topic just a few days ago. Because I and everyone else on this site are experts on the phenomenon, the NPR article didn’t say anything that we already didn’t know. It also didn’t mention the general idea of what we know–this IR (interracial relationships) issue is like a bone in the throat for us, and Asian America is stuck in cultural purgatory around this issue. However, as always, articles like this confirm and build on what we already know–IR is somewhat on the decline for Asian Americans, and people are starting to think more about family, etc, according to the news media. As people trying to educate and elucidate, we need to hear the issue from different angles.
