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I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
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I wouldn’t say...
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Tag Archives: IR
IR and Romance in the Hermit Kingdom
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 we’ve known for a while. Jump over the Pacific, and certain stereotypes rein supreme across the board. It’s like that in Japan, China, Korea, and just about anywhere you see people with black hair (well, not in Zimbabwe under Mugabe, but you get what I’m saying…). Check it:
FlashForward: Baiting the viewers?
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 Takeuchi, aka “Keiko,” above.)
[spoiler alert] In this episode, the cute Asian woman Keiko waits in the Japanese restaurant screening every guy who walks through the door to see if he’s her American Prince Charming, while Bryce takes Nicole, the model-esque Japanese-speaking White woman to Little Tokyo to see if they can find Keiko. While looking for Keiko, Bryce gets a surge of emotion and kisses Nicole, thereby creating all kinds of strangeness in the relationship and storyline. Bryce and Keiko actually do get physically near one another, but they don’t make contact since Keiko is drinking with her new employer and Bryce is having a conversation with Nicole.
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
The Secret of Asian American Scholastic Achievement
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 enables you to see patterns in other fields that you ordinarily would not notice. From the Times article:
Posted in Asian American
Tagged Asian American, interracial relationships, IQ, IR, schools
8 Comments
"Gaslighting"
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 is becoming too esoteric, or I’m deviating from race-related issues. Since I’m about to move even further into crazy-land with our Justice course, let me just quickly put up one partially race related post. In fact, I’ll even do one on IR!
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.
By, About, and For Rice Chasers
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 that the history of liaisons between Eastern women and Western men should not be condemned out of hand. In spite of the undeniable backdrop of injustice and exploitation, some of these encounters have been a Good Thing, offering to the men a reprieve from the repressive sexual morality of the Christian West and to the women a chance at a less traditionally patriarchal relationship than they might have had with many of their countrymen. There may be manifest inequities between these couples, but their trysts have sometimes blossomed into real affection, tenderness and love.
Today is Loving Day
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 all the way up to the Supreme Court. Learn about them here. They finally won their right to love each other.
I’ve seen Mildred Loving used as a justification for the good as well as the bad. I’m a bit tired, so I’m not going to re-post the bad. But overall, I do think the freedom to have IR is good, even for those of us who are not in IRs.
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.
