Tweet Kim Jong Il? Xiao Lin? Murakami Haruki? Tsing Tao? Pho Bai? Phad Kee Mao? People here in America have the hardest time with foreign names. I remember watching a Red Sox game, when Daisuke Matsuzaka was a rookie. The geezer of an announcer called him “Die-soo-kee Ma-tsoo-za-kee. WTF? I [...]
Tweet This is just great. Gameshow host: “When you refer to someone as being yellow, what does that mean?” White boy: They are Chinese? Gameshow host: Wrong. Asian boy: They are cowardly. Gameshow host: Correct. http://failblog.org/2009/08/11/answer-fail
Tweet http://www.hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2009/08/jay-chou-as-kato-in-the-green.html This article says that the Green Hornet movie is written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, of Superbad and Pineapple Express fame. And, they chose this Chinese actor, Jay Chou, who barely speaks English to be Kato. I fear that this is gonna be a SUPER bad movie [...]
Tweet I was perusing the ever popular site, StuffWhitePeopleLike.com, and noticed that the article with the most comments EVER (15,609) was one called “Asian Girls”. Ironic how the topic of Asians is the top article on the ‘Stuff White People Like”, isn’t it? Further, the article is actually quite racist, [...]
Tweet I’ve had my share of laughable inane “racial” experiences throughout my life growing up in a white-dominant society. I’ve had people call me Chink, Chan, Gook, Jap, and my all-time favorite…Chinaman. I’ve also had white stranger start doing Tai-Chai motions in front of me, asked me which belt I [...]
Tweet Hey Loyal Readers, Again, you have the option of subscribing to stories on the SAM site! This somehow got broken during the rebuild, but now it’s working again. There is a checkbox at the bottom of the page which says ” Notify me of followup comments via email”. If [...]
Tweet Have you seen this article? It’s called The New Trophy Wives: Asian Women, published in Marie Claire magazine by none other than an Asian writer, Ying Chu. It has outraged lots of defensive Asian women because the author proclaims that many white men have a fetish for Asian women, [...]
Tweet So, I read an article saying that Laura Ling, one of the reporters who was imprisoned in North Korea, is going to write a book! Great! Way to take advantage of all the hype. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/laura-ling-and-euna-lee-get-wordy.html It seems that Ling and Euna think this is some sort of triumphant return, [...]
