Tag Archives: IR

IR and Romance in the Hermit Kingdom

Posted on May 6, 2010 by jaehwan

A female reader sent this one in: Korean Females Eye Foreign Husbands. (I mention that the reader is female just to let y’all know it’s not one of the usual IR gang.) I think the writer is reporting something that … Continue reading →

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FlashForward: Baiting the viewers?

Posted on April 13, 2010 by jaehwan

Did anyone see last week’s FlashForward?  I blogged about the the Bryce/Keiko relationship before.  In last week’s episode, the story returns to Keiko (AF) and Bryce (WM) and how they’re trying hard to find one another.  (See video of Yuko … Continue reading →

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Where the Black Man is King/FlashForward's IR pairing

Posted on February 9, 2010 by jaehwan

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Asian American, Features, media | Tagged , , , | 41 Comments

The Secret of Asian American Scholastic Achievement

Posted on October 6, 2009 by jaehwan

No, it’s not that we raise our kids military style.  Nor is it a genetic thing. Nope, the NY Times just published an article that says that “nonsense sharpens the intellect.”  When you see something that doesn’t make sense, it … Continue reading →

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"Gaslighting"

Posted on October 2, 2009 by jaehwan

Aight, I’ve gone three posts without a comment (on my new posts–people are still commenting on the old posts) with no drop in traffic.  What this means is that either I’m being too positive (John Liu wins), or my stuff … Continue reading →

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Posterity and Asian Americans

Posted on August 3, 2009 by jaehwan

[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, … Continue reading →

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Get Shorty

Posted on June 29, 2009 by jaehwan

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 … Continue reading →

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By, About, and For Rice Chasers

Posted on June 17, 2009 by jaehwan

Someone posted this on Facebook. I’ll admit I didn’t read the whole article.  I skimmed the first page, and the only thing that caught my eye was this: As far as I can boil it down, Bernstein wishes to argue … Continue reading →

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Today is Loving Day

Posted on June 12, 2009 by jaehwan

Thanks, MN, for sending this: Today is Loving Day, where the mission of the organization is “to fight racial prejudice through education and to build multicultural community.”  It’s named after Mildred and Richard Loving, whose court case brought interracial marriage … Continue reading →

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IR on NPR

Posted on June 2, 2009 by jaehwan

(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 … Continue reading →

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