From wikipedia:
“Ching chong is an ethnic slur used to mock people of Chinese ancestry or other Asians who may look Chinese, and an onomatopoeia used to represent Chinese language speech patterns by those unfamiliar with them. Many public commentators on the recent usage of the term have deemed it derogatory, and referred to its derogatory [...]
I’ve been completely unaware of this…maybe I’ve been living under a rock? For those that do not know, the bile and gall bladder of bears are used in traditional Asian medicine, which are believed to have medicinal properties. This in effect causes approximately 12,000 bears to be raised in captivity, and the conditions they [...]
For a while, I’ve noticed this. A situation occurs where your ethnicity is mentioned, and it feels like most of the time, non-Asians automatically assume you’re chinese. Two things can be basically going on in your mind:
1) You are Chinese and are like “Wow, you have a sixth sense of Asianness!”
2) You aren’t Chinese and [...]
“Asian” is a broad umbrella term. About 60% of the world’s population are Asians. One needs to reconsider then, how accurate are these charts and graphs that discuss the “socialeconomic” success of Asians? The Chicago Tribune has written an article about how Southeast Asians are having a hard time dealing with the pressures of academics [...]
Hey Everyone! How yall doing?
Just a thought that I thought up just now. I was looking through this site called, Myspace, and I was looking through my friends list. It never really occured to me before, but yeah out of 265 friends I have or are friends with through this site, about 240 of them [...]
Ok, this topic was bound to appear here. To give a brief explanation to those unaware of the term, a model minority is a certain minority within the population which excels, in terms of success and achievement, than other minorities (for a clearer understanding, click here). In this context we can consider the population, America [...]
(Ok, so I’m a little over a month late, oh well!)
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Kenneth Cole is launching a worldwide campaign with the main them being “We all walk in different shoes”. I think they do an outstanding job conveying this message through their Sikh model, Sonny Caberwal.
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I get this one question a lot: Would you date out of race?
In all honesty, I find this question to be a bit silly. Not just the fact that why does it really matter if someone decides to date out of race, and why is it any of your business to begin with, but the [...]
(Sorry for the infrequent posts all, I’m in the middle of midterm week….ugh, twenty-one chapter plus lectures….)
So I’m surfing around on the blogosphere and happen to run across Jenn Fang’s blog, reappropriate.com. She has a couple of posts that really intrigue me, to say the least. I really enjoy her blog and respect her [...]
You know the saying, love comes in all different shapes and sizes. This is quite true in the manga turned anime “Lovely Complex” (also known as LoveCom for short) in which the two main protagonists find love despite their major height differences.
image credit: www.crunchyroll.com
It is quite common to see in society today that usually, [...]