Tweet I was quite surprised to learn yesterday on the radio as I was driving home that the shooter at the small religious college in Oakland, CA was a 40-something year old Korean man. This instantly reminded me of the Virginia Tech massacre, also by a Korean man, who shot [...]
Tweet In the old days, American men had bridal catalogs of foreign Asian women – those who were willing to come to the U.S. through marriage to a white man. Of course they still have these even today but they mostly target Eastern European women such as Russia and the [...]
Tweet One of the more subtle forms of stereotyping is when an ignorant non-Asian person compliments you for your Asian traits, thinking that you’ll be flattered by it. Guess again, fucka!!! It’s often quite funny really, and it’s actually not that subtle. It’s only subtle to the oblivious. In my [...]
Tweet Shanghai wrote: Black, Hispanic cultures are so mainstream now in the US. Numbers aside, why not Asian music on par with Shakira and Gloria Estaphan? Fuck-upedness of Asian cultural industries aside (it’s where I work), why is there not an Asian Shakira, etc? I think it’s a matter of [...]
Tweet Stereotypical, I know, but I was always good at math and logic classes. I remember on the first day of moving to a new school in 7th grade, my brother and I had to take some sort of test. We didn’t know what it was at the time, but [...]
Tweet Shanghai Meimi (one of the readers of this site) wrote: I grew up in California, and it baffles me how little Asians and Hispanics interact there. Why don’t they? Interesting. I’ve heard the theory that Asians look down upon Blacks and Hispanics, but I don’t know if that’s necessarily [...]
Tweet So I’ve met and talked to many Asian women in my lifetime and I’ve gathered some ideas over the years. The question I’ve posed to them is this: “How come you don’t want to date or marry an Asian man?” Here are some reasons given to me personally by various Asian [...]
Tweet All you guys and gals with Asian parents, let me know if you’ve experienced this. Have you ever seen a non-Asian retail salesperson be very rude to your parents when shopping at a department store because their English isn’t very good? This infuriates me because it’s just so blatantly [...]
