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: Japanese American
Gordon Hirabayashi, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 93
- Gordon Hirabayashi
Gordon Hirayabayashi, one of three resisters to the Japanese American internment, has died at 93. It was announced by Jay Hirabayashi, his son, who also said that his mother Esther, from whom Gordon was divorced, died the same day, about ten hours later. See the NY Times obituary here. Check this out:
When the West Coast curfew was imposed, ordering people of Japanese background to be home by 8 p.m., Mr. Hirabayashi ignored it. When the internment directive was put in place, he refused to register at a processing center and was jailed.
Real Band of Brothers
Story about seven Japanese and Japanese American brothers on both sides of the war: Brothers went to war, but not all on the same side. Happy Veterans Day.
Posted in Asian American, history, Knowledge
Tagged Japanese American, military, World War II
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Transcending: The Wat Misaka Story (Review)
bigWOWO Rating: Asian American Gold
Thanks to my local friend W who encouraged me to see this movie. Watching movies is really hard with the kids (and I admit that I could only hear 80% of the first part of the movie with the kids running around my house), but I’m glad I set aside some time to see this one. The movie was great. It shared historical facts and interviews, along with modern day discussions on what constitutes a “person of color” and how Japanese Americans have embraced basketball.
Posted in Asian American, media, Reviews
Tagged basketball, Japanese American, Wat Misaka
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William Hohri, Rest in Peace
We need to remember our heroes. Bill Hohri was a freedom fighter who was interned at Manzanar during the Japanese American internment. When he got out, he refused to accept the government’s crimes, and he took them to court, asking for $210k for each survivor. He ultimately lost the suit, but Reagan later signed a law giving each survivor $20,000.
Hohri’s group researched the law and detailed numerous constitutional violations. In 1983 he became the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit, which charged that the federal government had “maliciously and unlawfully conspired” to imprison Japanese Americans in a campaign of “invidious racial discrimination.”
Posted in Asian American, history, Obituaries
Tagged Japanese American, William Hohri
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Superbowl 44: Saints win!
What happened during that second half? I was cheering for the Saints, but I figured they were going to get blown out. I left for a dinner engagement after the second half when the Colts were winning 10-3, and then I find out that the Saints blew out the Colts. Wow. I missed an exciting second half.
Check out Scott Fujita above. He’s one the Saints’s linebackers. He’s a White guy with the last name “Fujita.” His story is that he was adopted by a Japanese American father and Caucasian American mother, but he was raised Japanese. See some of the story here. His father was born in an internment camp, and his grandfather fought for the 442nd.
American jailed for trying to reclaim kids
From CNN: American Jailed for Trying to Reclaim Children. More here. We don’t know all the details of this story, but wow, what a story. The American courts had declared dual custody of the children, and the Japanese ex-wife took them up and fled to Japan, despite the fact that the American ex-husband feared that she would do just that. Because Japan is not a party to the Hague Convention, Japan is under no obligation to abide by any foreign court rulings. The American guy flew to Japan, re-kidnapped his kids as they were with their mother, and then tried to drive to them to the U.S. Consulate. Unfortunately for him, the Japanese police were waiting for him after being alerted by his ex-wife. To his surprise, the US Consulate then refused to open the gates as he tried to run. Of course, we’re only getting the American guy’s perspective in all this since the wife isn’t here to plead her case to the American media, but this is certainly sad. Now he’s stuck in a Japanese prison cell, possibly stuck for five years.
Japanese American Internment
I found the above video of Oregon Poet Laureate Lawson Inada at another blog–Zuky. Check it out.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the Japanese American internment recently. Not thinking as in forming theories and prescriptions, which is what I usually do, but thinking as in trying to get a mental picture of what happened and what it must have been like for the internees. I’ve been “reading” the audio book version of Robert Asahina’s Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad. I usually put audio books into my car stereo and listen whenever I drive. Because I’ve been at home with the baby and haven’t spent much time in the car, I’ve been a slow “reader” for this particular book. But so far, it’s very good, with lots of first person accounts and interviews. I haven’t yet finished it, but I’d recommend checking it out. Most of the reviews I’ve read have been positive.
