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: interracial relationships
I’ll Keep You My Dirty Little Secret, Dirty Little Secret, Dirty Little Secret…
The reach of the radio waves. I can’t even hear “secret” without having that Rejects song go through my head. (although from the video, it looks like those are the PostSecret postcards…hmm…)
Thanks to that someone (don’t know if she wants to be mentioned) who sent a link to the PostSecret submission above. It was posted on Valentine’s Day, so I’m guessing it’s a Valentine’s Day tribute to the guy who owns the light-complexioned hand in the picture. As some of you know, I’m writing a book length piece on IR. Don’t expect it to be done very soon, but I’ve got faith that I eventually will finish it, hopefully in the next year. I’ve put in my 10,000 hours plus towards mastery, and I am indeed an expert. It will be quite involved–how will non-AA blogosphere people know what MM.com is or what a yokojohn is? Or for that matter, what AF/WM is? I’m going to have to put a glossary in the back.
Rice Chasers on the Tyra Show
75% of all interracial relationships are WM/AF. That’s incredible given that AA’s are only 4% of the population. Sorry about the mass postings. I’ve been overwhelmed by people sending stuff in–good stuff too. Usually I try to post only once every couple days, but you have to post good stuff when it’s up.
Amy Chua: Chinese Conceit, Chinese Ignorance, and the $24,000 question
Amy Chua and family
Amy Chua, author of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, wrote an article about Chinese child-rearing today: Why Chinese Mothers are Superior (Thanks to Jason from RiceDaddies for sending; and thanks to Fai for asking for this post.) In the article, Chua espouses a hard-line “Chinese” way of raising kids. She tells us how strict she is with her kids. She writes about how Chinese mothers, as opposed to “Western” mothers, don’t care about self-esteem. She writes about how Western people coddle their children. She justifies her own ridiculous behavior by talking about how well Chinese kids do in school. She uses her White Jewish husband Jed as a counterpoint to her insanity.
Posted in Asian American, parenting
Tagged Amy Chua, Asian Female Celebrity Club, interracial relationships, parenting
267 Comments
An Easy Activist Action to Protest Apple’s Exclusion of Asian Men
Woo hoo! Lots of people read the post about Apple and the AF/WM theme in their advertising. I said that I would write them a letter about including more Asian men, and I finally did. See below–I sent it to Steve Jobs and Philip Schiller this morning. I have no idea whether they’ll do anything about it, but I figure it’s worth a shot. There was some ignorance on my part of how the media/acting industry operates, so special thanks to Minority Militant and Philip from You Offend Me You Offend My Family for helping a brother out.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, media
Tagged Apple, interracial relationships, race, Steve Jobs
32 Comments
Russell Wong in Nikita
Russell Wong in Nikita
Has anyone been watching Nikita with Maggie Q? I’ve been tuning in with the foreknowledge that it’ll only be time before I grow tired of it. It’s a typical CW show with very little substance but lots of hot people. Maggie Q looks great in this series, and her martial arts work isn’t bad either. Her young white female protege is hot, as is the white female’s black female rival. Hotness in three colors. It’s great that the CW is diversifying–with the women, at least. As usual, almost all the guys are White.
Posted in Asian American, media
Tagged interracial relationships, Maggie Q, Nikita, Russell Wong
36 Comments
To Be or Not To Be (A Rice Chaser)
There’s an interesting article and video feature (see above) in the Times today about White guys who go to Thailand to find love and who eventually stay there. According to the article, the Western men are looking for “accommodating” Thai women, while Thai women are looking for money and stability. According to the article, the phenomenon of Western Guy/Thai Woman is taking off.
“There are villages in Isaan that are almost entirely comprising foreign houses, where the whole village is almost entirely houses purchased by foreigners for their Thai ladies,” said Phil Nicks, author of “Love Entrepreneurs: Cross-Culture Relationship Deals in Thailand.”
Never Settle
AM Revolutions posted this on his Facebook Page: How to Date an Asian Girl (for White Guys). TZ forwarded a related article from the same site: How to Get Girls for Asian Guys. It’s a blog written by a teenage Asian American girl who is also an aspiring writer. If history provides any indication of the future, she has a long and successful literary career ahead of her.
Among the advice for White Guys:
“There is only one remedy for yellow fever, and that is to date an Asian girl.”
Building Subcultures and Accepting Emotions
Quest Crew
I’m at the car dealership right now, getting one of the seatbelts on my car fixed. I accidentally broke it while installing a car seat, and now it’s gonna cost me. But man, this waiting room is high tech. Free wireless, free donuts, free coffee, lots of big screen TVs with CNBC. Plus a kids area.
Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features
Tagged fashion, interracial relationships, subcultures
283 Comments
The “Community Store” Experience
Does anyone out there watch the Bachelor/Bachelorette? I don’t. But people in my office often talk about it, so I went on Hulu to see the video above (I cut it for y’all so that you only have to watch the interview.)
Posted in Asian American, Features
Tagged Chris Harrison, interracial relationships, Jake, the Bachelor, Vienna
53 Comments
Teaching Apple to Really "Think Different"
Congratulations, King: 1st EVER Winner of the bigWOWO award! In doing so, he invented the category of “creative interference.” (Check the sidebar for my new page for award winners.)
It’s not often that someone sends me something so funny that I cry! I literally had tears in my eyes when I saw this one. Here’s King’s winning entry to the unplanned contest (see text below for explanation). Click the image to see the full size version:
In an earlier post, Robert clued us on to Apple’s new advertising campaign. If you check out the new iPhone video, as King mentions, you have not one…but TWO Asian Female/White Male pairings in a ROW. What are the chances of that?
Posted in Activism, Asian American, media, Strategy
Tagged advertising, Asian American, interracial relationships, media
91 Comments
