Comments on: White Cafe

By: denacali

denacali — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:51:03 +0000

Too freakin hilarious, especially the music vid dedications

By: kikiandlala

kikiandlala — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:45:23 +0000

Actually the Western news media DOES talk about white girls working at hostess bars. Especially during the Honore Blackman murder case. But even before then, news shows have talked about it - it’s just that it’ll be on documentary-specific news shows like CBC’s Passionate Eye or ABC’s Dateline rather than dinner news.

By: analogisnumberone

analogisnumberone — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:53:10 +0000

Well, this is the white media we’re looking at. They’ll continue to beat us over the head with racism until we beat them out of the broadcasting realm. Why not have a letter writing campaign about the racism in thier coverage? Maybe also start a campaign to have more black anchors on the air too? How about more black employees too? Pressure is the only thing that works. How about it?

By: RebelAzn

RebelAzn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:03:02 +0000

The intention of this story does nothing other than to stroke white male egos. There are plenty of strip joints and hostess bars in Japan featuring white women, how come they never do a story like that? The media here is pretty pathetic in that sense. They can take any subset of facts and blow it up like it is the reality.

There is a documentary film about white women working in Japan as hostess called Tokyo Girls or something. Anyway, there are plenty but no one in the west make any media news about that.

By: TheMac

TheMac — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:29:09 +0000

In addition to what I said in the thread, this is just generally sexist (also, again, dumb idea).

By: mobbdeep

mobbdeep — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:40:19 +0000

here we go again. anti-cnn.com is a better site.

when i talk race and asian male issues with non asian girls, they think i am a psychotic paranoid crazy asian man. I give them examples of this and that and they don’t wanna hear it.

They are all racists. SO I am the crazy one seeing things huh?

Sure.

Instead of focusing on articles about victims of the quake in China, they will do this.

Media is worst than ever now. Breaking story my ass. F CNN F Western media

Western ahhahahha. This is not cowboys and indians here.

They are sneaky and tricky as always.

By: uRB4N

uRB4N — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:30:38 +0000

It’s now the top viewed video on CNN’s video list.

By: Kuroyama

Kuroyama — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:17:17 +0000

Liang…

I might suggest that if the men are as buff as you suggest, that THEY would be the ones passing out slaps. Not the other way around.

ODDITY

The wife and I have been watching THE CLOSER. A detective show usually involving murder. so weve been renting episodes from the local video shop (national chain) that imports them. Japan is usually years behind the US. (Battlestar Galactica just got here a couple of weeks ago) But the shop only imported to like, episode 8 or so of Season two. No more after that… which we thought was odd, but whatever.

Sick of waiting, we download seasons 2 and 3 and resume watching. Lo and behold…

The NEXT episode in the lineup is about a white guy who marries Japanese women (he finds them easily because Japanese men beat them)… take them into his home, loves them for a time, then kills them and dumps their remains (using Japanese traditional ropes and knots) into lakes, bays, what have you. They even went so far as to say that all the women looked exactly alike.

Im willing to bet that episode NEVER sees light of day over here. Id rent it just to see how they translate the English (sometimes they avoid unpleasant or hard to understand language - so I wonder how they will translate “those Japanese women look exactly alike!!” “they could be twins!” “…my Japanese husband beats me…”

By: jaehwan

jaehwan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:02:58 +0000

skrips:

“Being a sell-hating person is embarrassing for the rest of us human beings” -Me.

Good observations about the story’s use of the word “Western”, jaehwan. Obviously, if an Asian American or African American person were to walk into that cafe, they wouldn’t be getting a job. It’s not a Western cafe… it’s a WHITE cafe.

It’s funny how language often functions as a means of hiding a deeper message. I’ll bet somewhere there must be a dissertation on how language masks racism. Maybe Pinker wrote something about it…

urB4N

The title of the link that was on the CNN main page was EXACTLY what I called the title:

“Asian women seek white, groveling men”

So, J, your original assertion that American media wouldn’t dare put “white” as the title is wrong.

Haha…I got direct service via your link, so I skipped the main page. Sorry. You’re right, urB4N. And that is crazy. But you did notice that they avoided saying “white” in the video. So maybe writing about race is more politically correct than saying it? It would be pretty bad if they had an Asian female reporter talking about Asian women seeking white, groveling men.

By: uRB4N

uRB4N — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:53:53 +0000

The title of the link that was on the CNN main page was EXACTLY what I called the title:

“Asian women seek white, groveling men”

So, J, your original assertion that American media wouldn’t dare put “white” as the title is wrong.