Comments on: Orientalism in the media http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/ Uniting the Asian Conscience Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:14:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: jaehwan http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6160 jaehwan Tue, 20 May 2008 04:59:26 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6160 Thanks, Shinigami, it's really great to hear that encouragement! Truly. I look forward to sharing more articles! Thanks, Shinigami, it’s really great to hear that encouragement! Truly. I look forward to sharing more articles!

]]> By: shinigami7 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6159 shinigami7 Tue, 20 May 2008 03:25:19 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6159 Not contributing to the discussion here, but I just wanted to drop in and tell Jaehwan that he's a great thinker and writer. As a young Asian man, I think a lot of the issues you care about are similar to what I care about, and I deeply respect the fact that you can communicate your thoughts so eloquently. In any case, I look forward to seeing more of your writing soon! Not contributing to the discussion here, but I just wanted to drop in and tell Jaehwan that he’s a great thinker and writer.

As a young Asian man, I think a lot of the issues you care about are similar to what I care about, and I deeply respect the fact that you can communicate your thoughts so eloquently. In any case, I look forward to seeing more of your writing soon!

]]> By: nycjoc http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6152 nycjoc Mon, 19 May 2008 18:00:55 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6152 Hey don't blame liberals for this idiot. Real liberals actually understand the country they are travelling to Before arrival. What has amazed me is the fact that there are these self hating folks out there who actually think they have a arrive in this "Post-racial" society just because they attached something white to themselves. I mean really! does she know how ass backwards she sounds. I couldn't believe that she taught her kids to act stupid and why be rude? Look I'm travelling to SE Asian and Taiwan next year and I know I will stand out like a sore thumb. but I want to go to see my brother comepete and because I want to see the world, so I'll suck it up. I will not act like a two year old about it being rude and having my kids (if I had any) act nasty. Finally where is this entitlement coming from? I mean really? Did she think the people of China owed her some deferential respect because she dared grace their shores? Should they be eternally grateful that she decided to drop a few american dollars over there? And her silly husbands comment about sticking out, Welcome to the club of Americans who are NOT in the majority and get the hell over it. In fact it applies to them both. Get over it. Hey don’t blame liberals for this idiot. Real liberals actually understand the country they are travelling to Before arrival. What has amazed me is the fact that there are these self hating folks out there who actually think they have a arrive in this “Post-racial” society just because they attached something white to themselves. I mean really! does she know how ass backwards she sounds. I couldn’t believe that she taught her kids to act stupid and why be rude?

Look I’m travelling to SE Asian and Taiwan next year and I know I will stand out like a sore thumb. but I want to go to see my brother comepete and because I want to see the world, so I’ll suck it up. I will not act like a two year old about it being rude and having my kids (if I had any) act nasty.

Finally where is this entitlement coming from? I mean really? Did she think the people of China owed her some deferential respect because she dared grace their shores? Should they be eternally grateful that she decided to drop a few american dollars over there?
And her silly husbands comment about sticking out, Welcome to the club of Americans who are NOT in the majority and get the hell over it. In fact it applies to them both. Get over it.

]]> By: delenda est caucasia http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6139 delenda est caucasia Mon, 19 May 2008 00:35:31 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6139 Disgusting. And worse yet, the ineffectual liberal tools over at 8Asians.com are treating this as something cute. Disgusting.

And worse yet, the ineffectual liberal tools over at 8Asians.com are treating this as something cute.

]]> By: mobbdeep http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6116 mobbdeep Sat, 17 May 2008 02:24:13 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6116 The title of the article was "stopping traffic in china" or something. She and her kids didn't stop shit. If I went to Africa, I am sure I would be looked at because I don't look like the people in Africa. Who does she think she is? SHe is a scumbag. Screw the NY Times too. The title of the article was “stopping traffic in china” or something. She and her kids didn’t stop shit. If I went to Africa, I am sure I would be looked at because I don’t look like the people in Africa. Who does she think she is? SHe is a scumbag. Screw the NY Times too.

]]> By: groinpull http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6115 groinpull Sat, 17 May 2008 01:30:24 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6115 Interesting. She grows up being made fun of because of her squinty eyes, so she marries people who look like the people who tormented her, having kids that are as un-Asian looking as an Asian woman can possibly have, travel to China and then teaches her kids to be proud because they don't look full 'Chinese'. Geez. Why not marry an Asian guy, have Asian kids, and teach THEM not to be ashamed of how they look. What a bitch. Interesting. She grows up being made fun of because of her squinty eyes, so she marries people who look like the people who tormented her, having kids that are as un-Asian looking as an Asian woman can possibly have, travel to China and then teaches her kids to be proud because they don’t look full ‘Chinese’. Geez.

Why not marry an Asian guy, have Asian kids, and teach THEM not to be ashamed of how they look.

What a bitch.

]]> By: jaehwan http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6112 jaehwan Fri, 16 May 2008 21:10:34 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6112 I forgot to mention that I heard of the Bean book because the Organization of Chinese Americans was promoting it. They quoted that same asinine comment that I quoted above from Bean's website. I knew the OCA president of one of the local chapters, and I sent him an angry letter to complain. He never responded. It's amazing given the fact that the statement clearly is against the ideas that OCA says that it stands for. I just saw your last blog post, and I'm still digesting it. What's funny is that we actually have a lot of activist organizations, but they just don't take on anything of substance due in large part to the very narcissism you describe. I forgot to mention that I heard of the Bean book because the Organization of Chinese Americans was promoting it. They quoted that same asinine comment that I quoted above from Bean’s website. I knew the OCA president of one of the local chapters, and I sent him an angry letter to complain. He never responded. It’s amazing given the fact that the statement clearly is against the ideas that OCA says that it stands for.

I just saw your last blog post, and I’m still digesting it. What’s funny is that we actually have a lot of activist organizations, but they just don’t take on anything of substance due in large part to the very narcissism you describe.

]]> By: Dialectic http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6111 Dialectic Fri, 16 May 2008 20:59:39 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6111 The examples you cite are typical of the narcissism which has infected our activist community. The problem is, they can't even recognize it, and they promote it, too. The examples you cite are typical of the narcissism which has infected our activist community. The problem is, they can’t even recognize it, and they promote it, too.

]]> By: Liang http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6108 Liang Fri, 16 May 2008 20:06:51 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6108 Excellent piece. I definitely agree that this bullshit is really ridiculous and is only fuel for white people's sense of superiority. And it also doesn't help when native Chinese people show such extreme, unwarranted fascination with mixed people. To them, it's just honest curiousity for something they rarely see (oddities, if you will, but to the Auntie Tans it only fuels their twisted egos. Excellent piece. I definitely agree that this bullshit is really ridiculous and is only fuel for white people’s sense of superiority. And it also doesn’t help when native Chinese people show such extreme, unwarranted fascination with mixed people. To them, it’s just honest curiousity for something they rarely see (oddities, if you will, but to the Auntie Tans it only fuels their twisted egos.

]]> By: mobbdeep http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6107 mobbdeep Fri, 16 May 2008 18:28:03 +0000 http://www.thefighting44s.com/archives/2008/05/16/orientalism-in-the-media/#comment-6107 U damn right!!!!! U are preaching to the choir!!!! I was disgusted and laughed reading vivian toys stupid pathetic article. I sent it to some of my asian friends too. We were all trippin over the "my blonde six footer husband." What does that have to do with anything? That he is blonde or 6 footer? that isn't even grammatically correct. What a loser she is, typical racist sellout pathetic journalist. It was racist and disturbing and dumb. She got major issues. Great job for calling her bitch ass out!! I am 6'0, i play basketball with asians that are taller than me (ugh lol) and when I went to China in April, all the young dudes were taller than me and I felt short =(. That dumb broad is a loser, a sellout, ignorant, and a fake. U damn right!!!!! U are preaching to the choir!!!! I was disgusted and laughed reading vivian toys stupid pathetic article.

I sent it to some of my asian friends too. We were all trippin over the “my blonde six footer husband.”

What does that have to do with anything? That he is blonde or 6 footer? that isn’t even grammatically correct. What a loser she is, typical racist sellout pathetic journalist.

It was racist and disturbing and dumb. She got major issues. Great job for calling her bitch ass out!!

I am 6′0, i play basketball with asians that are taller than me (ugh lol) and when I went to China in April, all the young dudes were taller than me and I felt short =(. That dumb broad is a loser, a sellout, ignorant, and a fake.

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